Daniel Radcliffe talks going bad in dark fantasy Horns

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Exclusive: “It's the most emotionally intense character I've played”

In issue 225 of Total Film magazine , Daniel Radcliffe gets dark and broody in bonkers fantasy Horns .

Inside the issue - which is available for just £1.99 on your iPad - he exclusively tells us all about taking on his most "intense" character yet as Ig Perrish, a twentysomething who wakes up one day and discovers he's the owner of a set of demon horns.

"He's a good person who has something inexplicable and terrifying happen to him," Radcliffe says of Ig.

"Ig's anger is a lot more on display than any character I've played. The way he lashes out at the world is much more overt than I've done before.

"And I think, frankly, it's one of the most emotionally intense characters I've ever played."

Horns opens in the UK on 29 October.

For more from Radcliffe, pick up the brand new issue of Total Film , which is out now . Headed up by our monstrous Winter Preview, it includes an exclusive look at Robert Downey Jr.'s The Judge , Brad Pitt's war flick Fury , Horrible Bosses 2 and many more exciting new movies.

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