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Although Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe played best friends forever — Harry Potter and Hermoine Granger — in theHarry Potterfilm series, turns out their thoughts in real life don’t match all that fine. This comes after Watson agreed to do a film that got rejected pretty brutally by Radcliffe before her.
This film wasThis Is the End, which initially was offered to theKill Your Darlingsactor. However, Daniel Radcliffe ended up turning down the film because the script was ‘sh-tty’, which taught the scriptwriters an important lesson. Following this, the script was offered to theNoahactress, and unlike herHarry Potterco-star, Emma Watson agreed to do it for a strange reason.
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During an interview with Flicks and Bits,The Perks of Being a Wallfloweractress shared her initial reaction to the script (viaDigital Spy):
“I thought it sounded crazy,” Watson said. “I remember trying to get my head around it on the phone to my agent who was like, ‘So, it’s Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill and James Franco and Danny McBride and all these other comedians. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are making it, and all the actors are playing themselves, and it’s going to be the end of the world… and they want you in the movie.’”
What she truly liked about the movie was its funny storyline and the ‘strong, badass, funny characters’ they had written for the only two women in the film. Continuing to share how she reacted while finding out that the creators wanted her for the film, Watson said:
“I’m like, ‘What? Why? How?’ I had so many questions. I just remember reading it and thinking it’s hilarious, I thought it was the most crazy, absurd premise for a story I’d ever heard. I had to do it.”
However, the version thatEmma Watsongot wasn’t the version that was offered to Daniel Radcliffe. In fact, if anything, Radcliffe even inspired scriptwriters to change the script for good.
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Daniel Radcliffe’s Rejection OfThis Is the EndTaught The Scriptwriters A Lesson
Way before Emma Watson, filmmakersSeth Rogenand Evan Goldberg initially wanted to cast Daniel Radcliffe inThis Is the End. However,The Lost Cityactor ended up turning it down.
Talking toBuzzfeed, Goldberg shared Radcliffe’s response to the original script.
“Two years before we brought it to anybody else, we brought it to Daniel Radcliffe and he rejected it because it was s***ty, it wasn’t good enough,” Goldberg said. “It was a bad early version. He taught us a lesson. We learned something from him that day.”
But thanks toDaniel Radcliffe, the two scriptwriters realized the mistake they were making with the script.
“The initial version was too obvious,” Goldberg said. “Daniel Radcliffe–Harry Potter jokes and James Franco [as a] fashion-snobby materialistic guy. Jonah Hill was being mean to everybody. And so we changed it all. We made Franco have this endearing love for Seth and we made Jonah turn into this big softy and we just mixed things up. We made it a little too obvious at first.”
“We got too excited, we jumped the gun on that. If we waited another year, I bet [Daniel Radcliffe] would have done it,” Goldberg added.
Nonetheless, the film was made and it added another golden star – a comedy one, this time – on Emma Watson’s star-studded career — a chance that Radcliffe inevitably missed.
Mahin Sultan
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Mahin Sultan is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, where she brings a fresh perspective to entertainment news. Having been in the field for over 3 years now, she has already written more than 2,000 articles across a variety of niches, from entertainment to health and fashion. This diverse experience has allowed her to quickly build a solid foundation and a deep understanding of the industry.
