A decade after opening up about his sobriety journey, “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe has turned a fitness freak.
“I don’t look like a person who would be a fitness freak, but I’m pretty intense about it,” Daniel said in a new interview.
“I feel like I’m a cliché of a former alcoholic or anyone who had any kind of addictive personality and then switched that addiction to being about the gym.”
The “Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” actor conceded that his long-term health goals go beyond weights, circuit training and cardio.
“I used to run on coffee and cigarettes all day, and then I gave up smoking,” he continued. “Now I just run on coffee all day.”
The 36-year-old actor also shared an insight into his daily routine with his girlfriend Erin Darke and their 2-year-old son.
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“I have a small child, so my body has trained to wake up at about 5:30. My son has a night-light where you can program it to turn a different colour at a certain time, so at 6:30 it will flick from blue to yellow and I will hear him scream, ‘It’s yellow, COME GET ME!’”
Daniel may have transitioned smoothly into adulthood despite his early rise to global stardom, but he acknowledges that his experience is the exception rather than the rule for young actors.
“People often talk about me, Rupert [Grint] and Emma [Watson] and the ‘Harry Potter’ kids in general as being a good example of, ‘See, it can all be fine,’” he explained, “and yes it can be, but we all worked really hard on ourselves to make it fine.”
“I’m also so aware of how tricky it can be,” Daniel added. “It’s very different growing up on a ‘Harry Potter’ set in the UK. The [same] crew was mostly there for 10 years, so we were surrounded by a group of people that really cared about us. I was also really lucky with my parents.”