Daniel Radcliffe: 'I Was Obsessed With Death'

Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that he spent much of his teen years being obsessed with the notion of death.

The 'Harry Potter' star plays a haunted man in a new adaptation of 'The Woman In Black', and revealed that he was for a long time fascinated with the film's central theme.

He told Empire: "I'm going to make myself sound very odd now. But when I was younger, about 14 or 15, there was a period of about six months where the last thing I did every night before I went to bed was read through the entire 'Last Words' section of the Book Of Quotations.

"I had a kind of fascination with death... I've lost a couple of friends and one relative - my grandmother, on my dad's side."

He continued: "Nothing that I've felt comes close to what it feels like, I imagine, for a young man to lose his wife. But I have a pretty active imagination..."

Now 22, Radcliffe acknowledged that he struggled intially to portray emotions in his characters, but is now comfortable doing so, saying: "The emotional stuff is the trickiest, absolutely. And that's why I feel I made some strides in this film because actually, for the first time, I felt able to really allow my own emotions to come out through the character.

"I know it sounds bizarre to say this now, but it was a fairly new experience for me, for whatever reason. I think I had a sense of it on the last 'Potter', but not before then."

He recently admitted to sometimes doubting his own talents.

'The Woman in Black is released on February 10, 2012.

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