Rumors about Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe playing the Marvel mutant Wolverine have followed the actor for years. Wolverine is short, Radcliffe is short; Wolverine has a lot of body hair, Radcliffe has a lot of body hair; Wolverine is Canadian, Radcliffe is British, which isn’t the same thing but they both talk English weird so close enough.
The rumors got supercharged recently when Radcliffe appeared in his underwear on an episode of the sitcom Miracle Workers, looking not only hairy but pretty buff. Even if the rumors didn’t exist, I feel like this image would follow Radcliffe for a while:
Recently, Radcliffe was hooked up to a lie detector for a Variety video where actors Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez — with whom he’s appearing in a production of the musical Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway — grilled him about his life, including the rumors that he’s going to be playing the most famous X-Man. And what did Radcliffe have to say for himself?
Daniel Radcliffe isn’t playing Wolverine, but is “flattered” by the rumors
Basically, he denied everything. Mendez asked whether Radcliffe had just gotten “buff for no reason,” and he agreed he had. “I am obsessive…You’ve seen my parents. They’re, like, insane fitness people, so that’s just been passed on. But no Wolverine. Flattered, but no.”
And that would seem to be that…unless this is all part of an elaborate shell game to throw people off the scent. That’s just the sort of thing the father of a Slytherin would do.
Eventually, Marvel will announce the next person who’s going to play Wolverine, and we can all stop hounding Harry Potter. And if it is Radcliffe in the role, then well played.
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