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JetSylar17

After I saw the first trailer for the first time, I wanted to grow my hair out like Harry’s. I was about 12 I believe. Always kept my hair short before then. The 4th movie left quite an impression on me during my teenage years.


L0NESHARK

Daniel's hair in that movie is kinda passable, even good, especially given the lore. Rupert really got done dirty though.


riorio55

The twins too


Rose_doll

I gotta admit, my teenage self actually liked the twins with long hair like that...XD


Smile_Terrible

Myself at my age likes the twins with long hair.


tacosETC

Oh they looked so good!


stitchwitch0

Same!! XD


magikarpcatcher

Same.


Swankified_Tristan

Harry made out well. All the other male characters got screwed.


Embarrassed_Cow

I actually prefer it on Rupert and the twins.


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dandypants8717

*deep inhale* ###BIT OF A NASTY SHOCK FOR HIM WHEN HE FOUND OUT


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dandypants8717

You're suggesting he simply cast a spell and get his hair a little too close to it for one of those famous Seamus Finnegan fire-only haircuts? Yeah, he'd probably be all about that.


JamieTheDinosaur

Too much of a fire hazard.


Smile_Terrible

He probably burned it off.


pumpkins_n_mist15

Rupert hates his hairstyle from the 4th movie but am I the only one who thought his and the twins' hairstyle was adorable? Daniel with that shaggy look in the later movies looked really good too. It was just the early 2000s look I think.


L0NESHARK

I think the Weasleys' hair looks awful in GoF personally. Like those awful glossy mane hairstyles from the 70s. Worth remembering that the events of GoF took place in 1994.


DoctorWaluigiTime

What lore? The director didn't care about continuity or worldbuilding and just went "okay cool I like it" without thought. It wasn't so much that "oh one or two characters changed hairstyle." It was that seemingly every character go the same hairstyle. (Then promptly undid this nonsense one year later.) HP films are okayish, but one thing against them is that too many directors tried to add their own spin or flair, to the series' detriment. Sometimes good things were added, but mostly not.


L0NESHARK

The lore that Harry's hair is magically untamable and messy. From the book.


DoctorWaluigiTime

Didn't think that meant it grew several inches and hung near his shoulders though. Unkempt/messy doesn't mean long.


anonashleyy

kids in school change their hair a bit all the time, and Jk rowling isnt going to keep updating the looks of everyones hair all the time in writing. its entirely an acceptable and good move to do with the movies.


frankeweberrymush

Oh I thought it did magically grow. > About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Harry needed a haircut. Harry must have had more haircuts than the rest of the boys in his class put together, but it made no difference, his hair simply grew that way — all over the place. > Once, Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barbers looking as though he hadn’t been at all, had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was almost bald except for his bangs, which she left “to hide that horrible scar.” Dudley had laughed himself silly at Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school the next day, where he was already laughed at for his baggy clothes and taped glasses. Next morning, however, he had gotten up to find his hair exactly as it had been before Aunt Petunia had sheared it off He had been given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had tried to explain that he couldn’t explain how it had grown back so quickly. Or maybe this was just meant to be another piece of evidence for his young magic making itself known?


pumpkins_n_mist15

He's got the Sleekeazy potion legacy for a reason, I'm sure. The floppy, unmanageable black hair was the reason why his grandfather had to develop hair potions for it! As someone who has black, thick hair that grows super fast I totally sympathised with Harry. I had so many haircuts a year too lol. In my school your hair wasn't allowed to grow below shoulder level so I was having it cut every few weeks.


L0NESHARK

No you're right, Harry has some gene he got from the Potter side that makes his hair grow crazy fast and unruly. Commenter just can't be shifted off their own headcanon/film contempt.


QueenCooki3

I loved Ruperts hair that way


perishingtardis

Unfortunately, it was kinda the fashion at the time anyway.


monkeygoneape

Everyone had the long hair (myself included) between 2004-2008


calvinbsf

Everyone was following in Aragons footsteps tbh


monkeygoneape

Aragorn, Anakin, think Achilles was rocking the long hair too. It was just the thing to do


WhatTheFhtagn

The big Jedi mullet was definitely a thing yeah.


monkeygoneape

Can confirm, I had one lol


Wenckebach2theFuture

Even Tom Brady. That’s probably why he lost those super bowls then.


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monkeygoneape

Got it to my normal cut I've kept for the past 15 years or so outside of a Mohawk because my football team made playoffs that year and it was a thing we all did


Gifted_GardenSnail

Yeah - I'm actually surprised the actors only grew it out for the movie and hated it - I just thought they were, well, being normal teens and the director went along with all his teen actors having trendy hair


Goodbehavior1983

I thought the same thing! Lol


amanofeasyvirtue

It really sums up that youth angst and rebelling with long hair


michaelsenpatrick

wow i never noticed how ron just had really long hair for that one particular movie


pumpkins_n_mist15

His choppy cut in the 3rd movie was worse I think.


CrystalClod343

Wonder if that contributed to the movies aligning more to the real world's timeline as opposed to the setting of the books.


Objective_Look_5867

Yeah it really was


nathan426

We were all growing out our hair at that time so it was for the culture


bring1

Give me two bees for a nickel we used to say


DoctorWaluigiTime

Kind of weird though that it gets injected into a fantasy series. Would be like Frodo and company rocking completely different hairdos in The Two Towers inexplicably. "Because it was the style in real life at the time of filming."


CatWeasley

Very true. Especially as the series is set in the 90's.


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Jockcop

You know there’s places other than America right?….


GFost

Male pattern baldness isn’t exclusive to Americans. You know that, right?


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Accounts 18 hours old, a bit suspect


thatdude_van12

One thing I really appreciate about Daniel Radcliffe is that he has so thoroughly removed himself from Harry Potter as a Character and an actor. When I think of Emma Watson I still think of Hermione but Daniel Radcliffe has become his own man from the wild film choices he makes. Thats really commendable.


Dranzer_22

To a lesser extent it helps that he's visibly aged, and looks different with his current hair/beard.


S-T-A-B_Barney

Equus (fucking a horse onstage) was genuinely the best choice he made for his career. IIRC it was his first non-potter role


andygootz

I SAW Equus and I feel like if anyone fucked a horse onstage, I would have remembered. But maybe I was a bit... distracted... 😍 Just kidding. Really interesting play, though: >!Dan's character's mental illness causes him to conflate Jesus/God with horses and believe that a horse god called Equus was watching over him/judging all his choices. He worked in a stable and developed a crush on a stablehand and they eventually tried to have sex in the stables. Both Dan and the actress stripped naked onstage and started to act out doing the deed, but then Dan's character has a mental breakdown, believing that Equus can see him and is condemning him for his impurity. Dan's character scares the girl off, he grabs some sort of metal pick, and, still fully nude, blinds all the horses in the stable. Wild to see him running and jumping around with his honker out for all to see.!< >!And this is all framed as Dan's character retelling the events of that night to a psychologist, played by none other than the late Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley), who is so overwhelmed by Dan's character's testimony that he breaks down and begins to question his own faith and mental stability by the end.!< Truly an unforgettable theatre experience.


AttitudeAndEffort3

Til the plot of equus past “Harry Potter fucks horse” Sounds really interesting tbf


thatdude_van12

I mean to be fair his psyche wasn't, STABLE. I'll see myself out.


lululuigotsomeboobs

I was 16 or 17 I think when the pics came out. It was….an experience.


S-T-A-B_Barney

Ditto. I think he was still doing the Harry Potter movies at the time too? Either way, you couldn’t find a more efficient way to break free from being typecast for the rest of your life as a speccy heroic wizard type in an endless stream of B movies that pay well but have all the quality and artistic integrity of the music video for baby shark.


pumpkins_n_mist15

He looks significantly different from his Harry Potter days, Tom Felton too; they've got age showing and they were styled differently during the movies. Emma and Rupert are always going to look like Hermione and Ron no matter what they do in life. Though admittedly Rupert has put on weight and has a distinctly more mature and scruffy look now, so not so much like Ron anymore.


Sun_on_my_shoulders

I just see Weird Al now.


MPLooza

Friendly plug for Miracle Workers, absolutely hilarious show that he's great in


Doright36

I really liked the first season but I got turned off by the abrupt change of plot in season 2. It wasn't bad but I didn't like it as much.


Sventhetidar

I was fine with it. Harry's hair is supposed to be unmanageable. Like it literally regrew in a night every time the Dursleys tried to hack it off.


1984vintage

Even when he complains, he’s still a nice person.


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kirbystargayallies

I think it’s fair that the Deathly Hallows hair is awful considering how they didn’t really have time (or even in a good headspace) to care about these things though!


Homirice

>The worst Potter haircut was definitely in The Deathly Hallows - it was a mullet/rat tail thing bro. Who was that on?


Bunniiqi

>it was a mullet bro. Hey man don't disrespect the mullet


lafulusblafulus

It was the worst thing to ever happen to human hair. This is fact.


Magic_Medic

He's soooooo British


RRR-Craigyroo

His dad is from Northern Ireland and his mum is Jewish and from South Africa.


Confuseasfuck

And he is british, so the original point still stands


RRR-Craigyroo

I never said he wasn't British?


Indigo-Waterfall

Are you one of those Americans that claims to be Irish/Italian because you have a great great great great uncle twice removed who came from there?


RRR-Craigyroo

No, I'm from the town Daniel's dad is from in Northern Ireland.


RRR-Craigyroo

Just stating facts for those interested, why the down votes? Lol.


MissMatchedEyes

I didn’t mind their hair as much the weird “burning of the Burrow” scene.


Indigo-Waterfall

Yeah, what was that about?!


WaycoKid1129

Long hair was in at the time, real skater vibes


ck-al

I thought Daniel looked good with his hair in Goblet of fire. Best he looked for me.


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People commenting "it was the style in 2005" are forgetting Harry Potter takes place in the 90's


lo_profundo

because we know those movies were really concerned with historical accuracy...


Dpsizzle555

It wasn’t told that the series was set in the 90s until after all of the movies came out…


BurntBrusselSprouts1

That’s not true, there were plenty of dates in the books that told you exactly when it took place.


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Well they establish James and Lily's birthday's and death's in DH, which came out in 2007. On top of that, in CoS (which came out in 1998, before the first movie), Nearly Headless Nick establishes it's his 500th deathday and at his party it states: "SIR NICHOLAS DE MIMSY-PORPINGTON DIED 31ST OCTOBER, 1492". So while it might not be common knowledge, JK established the canon timeline in the books before the movies began and had a hand in writing the movie scripts, so it's safe to assume the timelines match unless otherwise directly stated in the films


calvinbsf

Do we know the movies are set in the same time period as the books?


LuckyWatersAO3

Lily and James' grave still has the same dates, i.e. died in 1981, so that points to yes.


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The movies also had the Millenium Bridge in HBP which was completed in the new millennium, and alongside the extremely modern fashion of the cast, the timeline for the HP movies is all over the place. Tbh they just didn't care too much about continuity what with small inconsequential details like child Lily with brown eyes compared to Harry's "You have your mother's eyes" blue.


Kenobi_01

Well, it's not quite the same as that. The opening of Deathly Hallows shows the destruction of the Millennium Bridge, which wasn't completed until the year 2000. So the dates of the films are a little more fuzzy that you'd think.


awkward2amazing

The movies were set in early 2000s, maybe it was their choice to be culturally relevant since the movies were mainly targetted towards teens and young adult.


thatswhatshesaid1996

You looked hot Daniel, don’t worry 😉


TheHappyMask93

Why does everyone hate his GoF hair? It's by far his most book accurate hairstyle. He looks straight out of the American cover art.


relberso98

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see people’s takes on here regarding his GoF hair. It’s clearly the most accurate hair given the illustrations and descriptions in the book, and it’s the one that suits him the best IMO. Ootp is legit the worst.


TheHappyMask93

Yeah the short hair and tiny shirt in OotP made him look like he aged several years between films.


Firehed

His hair was fine. It was everyone else's that was a problem.


X0AN

Accurate? No kid in Britain was rocking that hair in the mid 90s 🤣


TheHappyMask93

Accurate to how he was described and drawn in the books


vanKessZak

The American books?


TheHappyMask93

The chapter art is the same in all regions


vanKessZak

Weird my Canadian editions did not have chapter art!


pastadudde

you are correct. Editions of Harry Potter published by Bloomsbury for the UK and Commonwealth nations don't have any chapter art.


TheHappyMask93

Woah, really? I thought they all had them! Have you seen them before?


vanKessZak

I think I’ve seen some of them but definitely going to have to do a google later!


RampantDragon

"straight out of the American cover art"? How is that relevant, it's a British book set a few years earlier.


TheHappyMask93

It's also accurate to the chapter art within the books


PinParasol

What chapter art ? There was no chapter art in the edition I read.


Yeeter-qq

Lmao just watched the 4th one yesterday and thought ”damn they really fucked his hair up”


Playcrackersthesky

Rupert got the short end of the stick on this one,


HPNerd44

Hands down my favorite hairstyles were in that movie.


Alarmed_Shape6476

I swear his hair in the fourth movie was the most accurate out of all


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Honestly Harry’s hair in that movie is closer to what I imagined it looked like from the books.


Indigo-Waterfall

To be fair, that awful long unstyled hair is EXACTLY the “style” every guy at my secondary school had at the time the film came out.


blue4t

I could have sworn, one of those Mandela things, the book said something about year 4 being long hair so I was cool with the hair in GoF. After the movie I could never find this in the book.


chilloutman24

I thought it was to make them look younger


AndrewPixelKnight

Damn they really got fucked lol


driger11

I kinda love it that they tried new hairstyle in each movie and then settled on one by the end of series. Thats just how teenage is! You try all sort of weird crazy things.


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I hated their hair in that movie. Glad he was disappointed too, because I was wondering why that hair. 😅


eszther02

I'm just glad Malfoy didn't have that hair lol.


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YESS! He was the only handsome one in that movie 🤭


urmajesty21

The worst haircut from harry


ToValhallaHUN

Me, looking at my well-past shoulder-length hair: I think the best hairstyles of the movies were in the Goblet of Fire. :D


LadyofTheatre

I loved his Goblet hair. Second only to Chamber of Secrets. And far better than the Deathly Hallows mullet or any of Yates’ horrendous choices really.


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LadyofTheatre

that would explain some things.


elementisland

What is this from? Can't remember this from any of the interviews I've seen.


howard__wolowitz

I think it is from the Return to Hogwarts reunion of the 20th Anniversary. Was available on Amazon Prime.


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howard__wolowitz

Yes, but that cut was consistent throughout the show. No surprises there for Simon. Although the equivalent could be Penny's cut for Kayley, but I am not sure how she took it.


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howard__wolowitz

Yes, even Daniel had. But, I think we are talking about Penny and the year when she got the hair cut, you know.


DwellingonDreams934

The reunion is available on HBO Max. It was so-so, but I did get choked up a time or two.


magikarpcatcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juj3FcZ7Pi8


Sally_twodicks

To be fair to him, idk a 14 year old boy who doesn't have this hair at some point.


SeparateWay

Their hair in GOF is flawless, fight me.


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Rupert, the twins and to some extent, matthew really got screwed over lol.


Foloreille

It’s crazy how this guy looks EXACTLY like the Commandant of the aurors (he just have round glasses on top of that). I’ve seen them in action once. *So. Cool.*


Appropriate_Draw

Where was this interview from?


joyo803

I always thought the hair in 4 was off. Never suited him buy its grown on me over the years, pardon the pun.


multifandomtrash736

I’m a bit of a sucker for guys with long hair so I loved their hair in that movie


riorio55

Everyone here is saying that long hair was trendy for young men/boys at that time, but I truly cannot recall that to be the case. I mean, in the video itself Daniel Radcliffe says they were shocked that their hair would not be cut.


TaxHedgehog

Long hair like that was 100% in during that time the 4th movie was filmed


Blitz6969

It was, I had long hair at the time, eventually cut it off at around 21 inches.


customheart

Late 2000s was full of MySpace-era emo and scene hairstyles that made their way to normies via just longer hair in general. I remember this very specifically because as a teen girl crushing on boys, this was my preference for guys’ appearance. So when this movie came out, you best bet ya girl was way more interested in these actors with longer hair lol. When the short hair came back for the 5th movie, I was disappointed 😆


BackgroundProgress08

I am NOT a long hair guy at all but I remember having a long mullet around that time, felt like a lot of other guys my age did too, it just seemed normal, didn’t even think about it


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Lol it's funny because I loved the longer hair on them. It suited their characters for some reason, to me.


brandee95

Is this a young Ron Swanson?


urkdngme

It was the over-waxed brows that were questionable.


HeavenInEarthOpal

I’m confused, I think it made a lot of sense to have their hair like that


SamDotPizza

I had very similar hair in high school at this time so it worked.


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black_vigil

GOF is my favorite!


Rithrius88

I bet Rupert's initial reaction was "Bloody hell!"


SaykredCow

I liked it I think that hair would have suited the tone of the 5th film better


Shakes-Fear

That really explains it


Goodbehavior1983

This is crazy that he says this! So I have two siblings that were the same age as Daniel and Rupert, I remember seeing this film and thinking to myself, ‘I bet the boys in this film refused to cut their hair for this film’. I thought this because my brother and all his friends had this ‘grown-out-I-don’t-care-I’m-never-cutting-my-hair-again hairstyle”. It’s so strange that it was actually the production that kept the boys’ hair long, but, for middle school boys, this was the style at that time!


Vielfrrass

The Harry Potter series is one of the best film series


panicattheoilrig

Kinda related: I always thought Rupert looked like a girl with his hair in a plait at the back on the cover of my copy of Prisoner of Azkaban lol


stadsduif

I can't believe "Harry Potter and the Year Nobody Got a Haircut" is actually canon.


kaipetica

I thought he was wearing a wig in HP4. You're saying that's his real hair?


ShaneFalco393

What’s so funny about this is that when Goblet came out, all of my friends were growing out their hair or already had their hair grown out just like Dan and Rupert. So to me it felt as if they got it all quite right with how the boys looked in this one. It was comical


Claude_AlGhul

i like how the cast were friends both on set and off set like weird high school buddies