‘I’d just fight with random people’: Daniel Radcliffe reveals the ‘nonintellectual’ reason he MUST avoid social media and admits he used to seek out online trolls’ abuse
Daniel Radcliffe thinks he’d get into ‘fights with random people’ online if he had social media accounts.
The actor, 31, doesn’t have an official Twitter account, and has said that if he did, people would constantly be reading stories in the news about how he got into a war of words with someone on the platform.
When asked why he isn’t on social media, he said: ‘I would love to say there’s some sort of intellectual, well throughout reason for this…
Oh dear… Daniel Radcliffe thinks he’d get into ‘fights with random people’ online if he had social media accounts
‘Because I considered getting a Twitter and I 100 percent know that if I did, you all would be waking up to stories like Dan Radcliffe gets into fight with random person on Twitter’.’
Daniel also admitted he doesn’t like the idea of social media because he knows it would negatively impact his mental health in the long run.
He added during an appearance on ‘Hot Ones’: ‘When I was younger, not anymore thank god, I would like to look up comments about myself on the internet and read s*** like that. That is an insane and bad thing to do…
‘And to me, like Twitter and everything just feels like an extension of that. Unless I want to go just read all nice things about myself, which also feels like another unhealthy thing to do.’
No! The actor, 31, doesn’t have an official Twitter account, and has said that if he did, people would constantly be reading stories in the news about how he got into a war of words with someone on the platform
Sweet: The ‘Harry Potter’ star’s decision to stay away from social media comes as his former co-star Rupert Grint joined Instagram for the first time last month
The ‘Harry Potter’ star’s decision to stay away from social media comes as his former co-star Rupert Grint joined Instagram for the first time last month.
Rupert used his first post on the photo-sharing app to show off a snap of his daughter Wednesday, whom he welcomed with his girlfriend Georgia Groome back in May this year.
He wrote at the time: ‘Hey Instagram….only 10 years late, but here I am. Grint on the Gram! Here to introduce you all to Wednesday G. Grint. Stay safe, Rupert (sic)’
His chat comes after Daniel joined his Harry Potter co-stars Tom Felton and Rupert for a virtual reunion with the movies’ biggest stars.
Leading man: Daniel, who played the titular character, said: ‘My first thoughts are that this is a mere preview of the nostalgia we’ll all be showing next year when it’s 20 years since the first film was released. I feel like we’ll be doing a lot of reminiscing in various forms.
J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, was originally published in 1997, and introduced the character of Harry Potter and the world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, before hitting screens in 2001.
The franchise went on to be a series of eight movies following of from seven books, with the second part of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows released in 2010.
Daniel, who played the titular character, said: ‘My first thoughts are that this is a mere preview of the nostalgia we’ll all be showing next year when it’s 20 years since the first film was released. I feel like we’ll be doing a lot of reminiscing in various forms.
‘It feels insane as I’m sure it does for anyone whose 30 or 31. It seems impossible that that time has past it feels very fresh. It’s been amazing to watch the whole thing continue to grow since it finished and not just the play and Fantastic Beasts.
Shocker: The wonderful world of Harry Potter was first revealed to in book form 23 years ago (Daniel pictured in the first movie in 2001)