By ANITA SINGH - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Added: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:00:00 UTC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/5734000/Daniel-Radcliffe-a-cool-nerd.html

While the Potter films were earning him millions of adoring fans around the world, Radcliffe's role as the bespectacled boy wizard was causing resentment at school.

However, with an estimated £30 million fortune in the bank and Hollywood at his feet - all before his 20th birthday - Radcliffe said his life is proof that that 'uncool' kids come out on top.

"I wasn't the most popular kid in school," said Radcliffe, who tried to give as good as he got. "Because I'd been on set with some really genuinely witty people over the last few years, I could turn round to these idiots and at least try and tear them apart. They didn't like that. I'm not saying I was Oscar Wilde at 14, but I had a line for anything they could throw at me.

"I'd never been one of the cool kids [but] you realise that all the kids who were really cool at your school were actually scuzzy and horrible and boring. The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life."

On one occasion, Radcliffe found himself in a fight with an "incredibly unpleasant" boy five years his senior.

"There'd been a bit of animosity between us already and he was being really horrible to a kid I knew, so I pulled him off this other bloke and he threw me into the lockers. Then I think I said something to him and he punched me in the face. Then I punched him back. In films it always looks really cool, but I was hair-pulling, biting - there was nothing elegant or macho about the whole affair. I thought, 'You know what? If you're quick enough to run away, then that's what you should do'."

In an interview with Esquire magazine, Radcliffe risked the US box office prospects of the new Harry Potter film by declaring himself to be an atheist.
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