But Radcliffe has always been in touch with his dark side, and the work that he’s done in the wake of finishing the Harry Potter franchise has revealed an actor who would rather weaponize the aura of his celebrity than resign to its fixed dimensions.
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It’s been the most talked about film at the Sundance Film Festival, and it stars Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe. I did indeed watch a movie where Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse that Paul Dano rides across the ocean like a jet-ski, propelled by the power of Radcliffe’s post-mortem flatulence. “One of the pieces that I had on was just a wooden – wow, I can’t believe I’m telling you this – it was like the end of a broom”.
Radcliffe says: “I didn’t know what I was doing until I turned up, even though I had read the script. In fact I didn’t know what I was doing from day to day”. “You have to be open to it and then I’m fine with it”. “You can’t start from the goal of wanting to please all your fans,”he reasons”.
They also directed a short, freaky video about love and slowly getting sucked into your best friend’s butt called Interesting Ball. “And if someone goes to see something who wouldn’t have done so if I wasn’t in it, then that’s fucking great!”
Trolling or not, we at Paper love a good fart joke. “We’re weird metrosexual boys; if I was lost in the woods, I’d just have a lot of feelings”.
Somehow, though, in one of the many startling achievements of “Swiss Army Man”, bodily functions are reclaimed as simply a natural part of life, compartmentalized by the parameters of society.
“I think I’m always very naive”, he sighed to uproxx.com. So there you have it: the fart-corpse Sundance movie was a personal movie.
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They say that after writing Swiss Army Man they “thought we would just have to act in it ourselves, because the plot is so insane, we really thought we would never get any actor to do it”.
