British actor Daniel Radcliffe predicts that Donald Trump will win the battle for the U.S. presidency.
“I do think he’s going to get in actually, unfortunately, but, you know, we’ll make the best of it,” the former Harry Potter star said of the Republican candidate.
“Frankly, I think that at this point him not getting in is maybe more dangerous than him getting in, just because the amount of people that will then say it was all rigged. I feel like there’s almost a part of you that’s like, ‘No, if you want this you need to get it so that you see how much you don’t want it really.'”
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However, Radcliffe has a theory about Trump’s potential experience in office.
“I feel like Trump is going to hate being president. I feel like the actual day-to-day work of being a president and having to care about people, or at least pretend to, is going to come really hard to him,” he said, before adding, “hopefully Hillary will win, but I’m not too hopeful.”
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Radcliffe is currently promoting two movies – the quirky Swiss Army Man and dark drama Imperium.
He says the latter – about an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a white supremacist group – is reflective of the times.
“It’s something that we did not anticipate, is that some of these views, these obviously far-right wing extremist views that we explore in the film, would have moved so much towards the mainstream of political life in America and everywhere,” Radcliffe said.
“That’s what I liked about the film; that it functions as this thriller, first and foremost, but also it has got this political conversation that’s sort of happening at the same time.”
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