According To Sandra Bullock, This Is What Working With Daniel Radcliffe Is Really Like
Throughout her long and successful film career, Sandra Bullock has starred in several box office smash hits. In her latest project, The Lost City, she stars alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe to portray a romance novelist who gets kidnapped by an eccentric villain.
Bullock portrays Loretta Sage in the film, novelist of a successful series of adventure-romance books. While on a book tour, she is kidnapped by Radcliffe’s Abigail Fairfax, who believes she can help him find lost treasure in an ancient city. Meanwhile, her book’s famous cover model, Alan (played by Tatum), decides to rescue her to prove he’s more than just a cover model.
Daniel Radcliffe jumped at the chance to play the outlandish villain of the film and has spoken positively of his experience on set too, singing praise for Bullock as an actor and co-star. But how did she find working with him? Read on to find out!
Sandra Bullock’s Expectation Of Daniel Radcliffe
Given that Daniel Radcliffe is one of the most famous people on the planet and gained fame, wealth, and success when he was still a child, Sandra Bullock expected him to be a certain type of way when she met him.
In a 2022 interview with the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, via Express, the actress confessed that she expected Radcliffe to be “entitled” when she found out she would be working with him on The Lost City.
“I don’t know why I am so slightly obsessed with Daniel,” Bullock explained. “I think it’s because, like all of us, we think we know who he is based on the tremendous amount of success that he garnered at a very young age in a massive franchise.”
However, Bullock later confirmed that the Harry Potter actor turned out to be someone completely different from who she was expecting him to be.
What Is Working With Daniel Radcliffe Really Like?
In her interview, Bullock had nothing but praise for Radcliffe.
“I thought he’d be some narcissistic, entitled child actor who’s grown into an adult who would just come with all kinds of drama and he was nothing even close to that.” She added that she came to “really admire and like him so much, because he was not at all what I expected him to be.”
Bullock went on, “Like, he’s a grown man who has such charm and charisma and when he came aboard it was so fun to think about how he was going to look.”
She came to like him so much that she even felt comfortable enough asking him for an autograph, explaining in an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, via CinemaBlend, that she did it because her sister is a huge Harry Potter fan.
“Yes, Daniel Radcliffe,” she answered, when asked if she’d ever asked for an autograph before. “For my sister and for the kids. But it was my sister’s birthday and she is a huge Harry Potter fan, so I got her an autograph.”
Interestingly, the publication reports that Radcliffe has previously been banned from signing Harry Potter memorabilia when working on other projects. When he starred in the play Equus, he was asked to sign his name on programs for the play only, rather than Harry Potter posters and other material.
So fans are left to wonder whether Radcliffe signed Harry Potter merchandise for Bullock, or The Lost City paraphernalia.
How Did Daniel Radcliffe Find Working With Sandra Bullock?
As it turns out, Sandra Bullock wasn’t the only one who enjoyed her time on The Lost City set. Daniel Radcliffe also opened up about his experience on the film, confirming that he loved working with Bullock after admiring her as an actress when he was younger.
“Working with Sandy was a real 'pinch yourself' moment, because I did grow up watching her, and have been a fan of hers for so long,” Radcliffe explained in an interview with Empire. “So to actually get to be in a movie with her is still mind-blowing to me."
He had grown up watching several iconic Sandra Bullock movies, including Miss Congeniality, While You Were Sleeping, Infamous, and later in life, Speed.
Radcliffe also revealed that she was approachable and friendly on set, even encouraging him to call her Sandy: “She encourages you to call her Sandy, and I would do that, and then if I was talking to any of my friends at home and said ‘Sandy’, they were like, "Oh! Sandy, is it?!" And I'm like, "Yes, I know, it sounds weird, but she's asked me to."
It looks like the love is mutual. Fans are hoping that Bullock and Radcliffe get to star in more projects together in the future!
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