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It might surprise you to learn that Daniel Radcliffe was drunk during the filming of the Harry Potter movies. He said that he would go out at night, partying, and when he woke up to film his scenes, he’d still be sloshed from the night before. As they say in show business, the show must go on!

In a new interview, Dan said, “I don’t want to go into details but I drank a lot and it was daily – I mean nightly. I can honestly say I never drank at work on Harry Potter. I went into work still drunk, but I never drank at work. I can point to many scenes where I’m just gone. Dead behind the eyes.”

I wonder which scenes he filmed three sheets in the wind?

Daniel gave up drinking for good when he was only 21-years-old and says that he decided to kick the habit because he didn’t like the type of person he was becoming as a result of his drinking. He said, “I loved the fact I suddenly could talk to people and feel so entertaining and so interesting. But after a while, you’re living under such a cloud of shame about what you’ve done and the dread of who you might see, what you might have said to them, what you might have done with them. You either have to change something or give into that shame and I wasn’t prepared to do that at 21.”

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