With the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince just 14 days away the web is awash with new interviews. In this one with Daniel Radcliffe discusses the lack of darkness in the sixth movie and that he is thrilled that the last movie has been spilt into two movies, brimming with darkness and with working with Michael Gambon.

There's loads of darkness and not many laughs there, so David said it was best to give the audience as much comedy as we can while we can. There are huge opportunities for comedy in the sixth film and we use all of them, even though my natural inclination is not towards that. I love watching comedy but doing it is something else.

I'm very happy that the seventh book is being made as two films because I was worried they would have to cut important scenes. For example in the fourth film you could cut out the house elf sub-plot and it doesn't affect the main story in any way. In the second film they cut out the Nearly Headless Nick Death Day Party. In fact that whole character has fallen by the wayside. The problem with doing that with the final book is that there is nothing that doesn't relate to the main story or drive it forward. There's not much you could cut. So we've given ourselves the room and opportunity to do it justice.

Daniel Radcliffe wishes he was taller.The 5ft 5in 'Harry Potter' star is desperate to grow a few inches, but concedes his "growth spurt" days are probably over.
The 19-year-old actor said: "I don't think I'm going to grow much more. I'd love to be taller - ask anyone who is my height if they want to be taller and they'll generally tell you 'yes'.
"But it's not something I can do anything about - unless I get weights and strap them to my shoes to stretch me."
Daniel was considerably shorter when he shot to fame playing the boy wizard in 2001 film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', but he is too embarrassed to watch footage of him as a child.

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Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson were snapped reuniting on the set of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II". The twosome was photographed practicing their roles as Harry Potter and Hermoine Granger on the films' set in London on Sunday, June 28.

Also seen on the set was depicter of Ron Weasley Rupert Grint on the upcoming movies, which will be released in U.S. theaters on November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011. All of them were pictured enjoying their time together during the filming of the scene.

Most recently, Daniel Radcliffe shared about his favorite thing from the sixth installment of the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". "Wow, so many things! It's great, it's been definitely a great experience," he told Mexico's Tu magazine.

"Acting with Michael Gambon, who plays Dumbledore," Radcliffe continued. "Even though I had worked with him in the previous movies, this time around we were working together the first four months of filming. Definitely our relationship grew stronger, onscreen and off screen."

Daniel Radcliffe doesn't act when playing Harry Potter.
The 19-year-old British actor says his abilities were undeveloped when he first took on the role of the boy wizard in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' and he felt fans wouldn't like it if he changed his approach in later movies.
He said: "When I started out at the age of 10 or 11 I was essentially saying the lines as I myself would say them. When I became aware that that's what I was doing, at 13 or 14, it didn't make sense to change, because it would suddenly be a dramatic shift in the character."
Daniel admits he is very much like his famous character - created in the best-selling children's book series by J. K. Rowling - and even his mother has noticed the similarities.
He added to Parade magazine: "When she read the sixth book she noticed that Harry argues in the kind of irritating, pedantic way that I argue. She thought Harry and I were getting closer and closer together at that point."

“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson is rumored to be Columbia University bound, but don’t expect co-star Daniel Radcliffe to follow her into the hallowed halls of academia. The 19-year-old actor recently shared his distaste for the classroom in the latest issue of Parade magazine. “I wasn’t very good in school at all,” Daniel told the mag. “I was kind of useless.”

One thing Daniel hasn’t been useless at his helping turn J.K. Rowling’s fantasy franchise into a world-wide film phenomenon. With “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” coming out next month, Daniel talked with Parade about his similarities with the beloved boy wizard, taking it all of in “Equus,” and why cougars make him purr.

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Daniel Radcliffe has an ambition that might surprise you.

“Ultimately, I really want to do a bungee jump,” he tells me over Diet Cokes in a Manhattan café. He grins. “But not for a while.”

No, not for a while. Not, at least, while Radcliffe is still the very valuable centerpiece of  Warner Brothers’ gigantic Harry Potter franchise, whose five films to date have earned almost $4.5 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) worldwide. The sixth installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, premieres next month, and the series’ two-part finale—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, currently in production in England—finishes shooting next spring. By that time, Daniel Radcliffe will be close to 21 and will have spent half his life portraying Harry.

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What better way to celebrate a great run than a big jump?

Prior to beginning Deathly Hallows, Radcliffe made a physically less perilous but no less daring leap: starring in the Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer’s dark, disturbing play Equus. Radcliffe portrayed an unbalanced stable boy with a religious and sexual fascination with horses. He also had a nude love scene.

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Do you feel that you have had to become a man through your character?
Not necessarily. I think we have the knowledge I have gained from this saga that began long ago.

Harry Potter has matured, have you grown in the acting sense?
Yes, I think or hope it has. At least when I did the movie My Boy Jack it changed me, helped me to feel that I was growing as an actor. There I had to be more natural and relaxed.

This time Harry Potter has to face another important death (Albus Dumbledore). How did you act in that sad moment of the story?
As an actor it is hard, because on this point each one of the previous movies he finishes with the death of the death of central characters and in some way affect you. I do not know how you take when you see that part, I made my best effort, and humbly, I think it was good.

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Daniel Radcliffe has little confidence in winning girls, for the Harry Potter star feels he’s “terrible” when it comes to being a sex symbol.

The 19-year-old, who sparked a female frenzy in the West End and Broadway stagings of the play Equus in which he appeared naked, said he scared the fairer sex away once he opened his mouth.

“I’m a terrible person to be a sex symbol. I’m no good chatting people up,” The Daily Express quoted him as saying.

“The lust thing generally stops when they meet me because I’m not a particularly sexy person to talk to.
“I have cool taste in music, I think ex-girlfriends have told me that. That’s quite sexy. But they are ex-girlfriends!” he added.

The Brit continued: “I like conversation. I’m not good at chit-chat. I can’t do pick-up lines.”

Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are scheduled to appear on Australia's Rove Sunday, July 5, 2009. We are unaware as to how the interview will take place (whether a live sit-down chat at the studio or a satellite recording), as there has been no word that the three actors would be heading to Australia to promote Half-Blood Prince. We will have more on this when it is made available.

Daniel Radcliffe has little confidence in winning girls, for the Harry Potter star feels he's 'terrible' when it comes to being a sex symbol.

The 19-year-old, who sparked a female frenzy in the West End and Broadway stagings of the play Equus in which he appeared in birthday suit, said he scared the girls away once he opened his mouth.

"I'm a terrible person to be a sex symbol. I'm no good chatting people up," The Daily Express quoted him as saying.

"The lust thing generally stops when they meet me because I'm not a particularly sexy person to talk to. I have cool taste in music, I think ex-girlfriends have told me that. That's quite sexy. But they are ex-girlfriends!" he added.