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I recently read an interview where Radcliffe says he started out playing Harry just like, well, himself. He was like 10 years old or something, so had little idea how to "act." Later on, he felt it would be a jarring change of character if he changed that.
So maybe it's just Radcliffe himself I find pretty dull and characterless. He seemed positively lustrous when he was under the influence of guaranteed good luck. So maybe he's got acting chops after all, but himself has all the personality of a doorknob.
I just know the character as written seems a lot more lively to me. I don't find Radcliffe unappealing, just needlessly dull. And starkly less able to be persuasive to me in the last two films, when I found the acting of Grint and Watson to improve, um, dramatically.
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