Daniel Radcliffe not marketable without his English accent

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Feb 02 2015 | 12:35 PM IST
'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe has been told that people don't want to see him in films unless he keeps his Engligh accent.
The 25-year-old actor from west London said that producers told him to get rid of a Canadian accent he was going to use for a role, reported Independent online.
"It was basically: 'You're not marketable without your English accent,' which is bad news for all the other stuff I have done with American accents," Radcliffe said.
"It was one of those ridiculous last-minute panics on their behalf, but I certainly wasn't going to go: 'Well, screw you guys, I am going to put 200 people out of work for the sake of an accent.'"
Radcliffe, who now lives in New York, also said he's been offered roles in action movies, but had not been sent one he would consider doing.
"A couple of quite good action films have come my way. But there's never a fresh character involved in any of those films. It is just the same people thrown into different cities with different casts," he said.
"I like action movies and I feel there used to be lots of really witty ones, like Die Hard and Lethal Weapon and the Bourne movies, but the good ones are few and far between now.
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First Published: Feb 02 2015 | 12:35 PM IST

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