Potter star looks to life without wands or wizards

LONDON (Reuters) - For

Daniel Radcliffe

, it's time to forget

Harry Potter

. The 22-year-old actor, inextricably related to a child sorceress he played via a film franchise, takes on his initial adult purpose in Victorian-era fear film "The Woman in Black."

Hitting theatres in Britain on Feb 10 and a week progressing in a United States, a film is a step into a opposite for an actor who grew adult on a set of one of Hollywood's many successful series.

Instead of prolongation budgets of $250 million or more, The Woman in Black cost an estimated $17 million to make. And however large Radcliffe's fan bottom around a world, another billion-dollar box bureau looks out of a question.

James Watkins

, who destined The Woman In Black, called it a "reinvention" for Radcliffe.

"I consider it's a start of that, absolutely," Radcliffe told Reuters in an talk forward of Tuesday's red runner universe premiere of a new movie.

One of a attractions of personification Arthur Kipps, a immature counsel and father anguish a genocide of his wife, was a apparent mangle with what went before.

"People haven't seen me looking like this before. People haven't seen me personification a father -- all those things are going to assistance apart it in their mind," Radcliffe said.

"But we consider eventually a thing that will assistance that reinvention is a fact that a story is so good. we consider people will really fast forget that they're examination Harry Potter."

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In The Woman in Black, Kipps is forced to leave his three-year-old son and transport to a remote encampment on a easterly seashore of England to demeanour into a authorised affairs of a recently defunct owners of Eel Marsh House, a creepy palace cut off from a mainland when a waves rises.

He discovers a dim family tip that helps explain a coming of a mysterious, ghost-like lady dressed in black who beckons children to an early grave.

The film is formed on a novel by Susan Hill that was blending into a successful West End play, still using in London.

Jane Goldman, who co-wrote a scripts for "Kick-Ass" and "The Debt," was brought in to interpret a page to a large screen, and fear dilettante Watkins directed.

Radcliffe pronounced he did not consider too tough about perplexing to be opposite from his

Harry Potter

impression when he worked on a set of The Woman in Black and was gratified with a results.

"I consider my work in this is positively on a standard with a work we did on a final Potter that we was very, really unapproachable of."

He will shortly learn if critics agree. Throughout a Harry Potter array Radcliffe warranted churned reviews, nonetheless any disastrous comments did zero to deter record audiences.

And his dual categorical theatre roles -- "Equus" in 2007 and "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" in 2011 were generally well-received, quite Equus.

Looking ahead, Radcliffe pronounced proof he was not a one-part consternation would take time.

"It's a prolonged road. It's not going to be one film and unexpected you're off. It's going to be a combination."

That multiple will engage both theatre and screen.

"In an ideal universe we would like to brew them as most as possible. In Mar I'm filming a film called 'Kill Your Darlings' in that I'll be personification a 19-year-old Allen Ginsberg.

"That's a subsequent thing on a image and after that we'll see."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

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