Daniel Radcliffe's parents turned down his Potter role
Daniel Radcliffe's parents initially turned down his role in the Harry Potter franchise as movie bosses planned to shoot all the films in Los Angeles.
The British actor was just a child when he first tried out for the role of the boy wizard, and he has revealed his parents didn't want him to take the job if it meant moving to America.
They eventually relented and let Radcliffe audition for director
Chris Columbus, who spotted the star in BBC series David
Copperfield, when filming was confined to studios in England.
Radcliffe tells the Hollywood Reporter, "Chris Columbus had seen
David Copperfield and said, 'I want to audition this boy.' They
went to my parents, and, at the time, the deal was to sign on for,
I think, six films, all to be done in L.A., and my mum and dad
simply said, 'That's too much disruption to his life. That's not
gonna happen.'
"I didn't know any of that had gone on. And then, maybe three, four
months down the line, the deal had changed, and it was going be to
shoot two films, and they'd both be done in England, and so they
said, 'Okay, we'll let him audition.' And then it all went from
there, really."