Daniel Radcliffe would like to do a rom-com with Quinta Brunson, his “perfect height match”
Radcliffe has only ever done one rom-com, but he'd like to do more
Daniel Radcliffe has had a good movie career, successfully transitioning from the Harry Potter movies to things that aren’t the Harry Potter movies (he did a movie about wizards in which he pointedly did not play a wizard!), but there is one genre that has mostly eluded him: romantic comedies. Speaking with Variety ahead of the Emmys on Monday, Radcliffe noted that he did one rom-com (referring to Swiss Army Man, obviously, in which he played a farty boner corpse who developed a relationship with Paul Dano) and he really enjoyed the experience, so he’d like to do more. And better yet, he even knows that his rom-com partner should be Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, who he says is his “perfect height match” (they were also in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story together).
Radcliffe seems to be implying that he and Brunson are the same height, making them a perfect match, but Google says that’s not true—he’s 5'5" and she’s 4'11"—but that problem could be solved by carefully positioning the camera so the perspective could trick the viewer into thinking they’re the same height (a twist on what Peter Jackson did for The Lord Of The Rings). Someone would have to ask Brunson about it, since this is just something he made up on the spot, but who wouldn’t want to be in a romantic comedy with the inexplicably buff Daniel Radcliffe?
Also, we were joking up above. The one rom-com that Radcliffe did before now was 2013’s What If, the movie where a pre-Star Wars Adam Driver screams “I just had sex and I’m about to eat nachos.” That’s fun, because he doesn’t really play those characters anymore, but that’s still definitely something that Enzo Ferrari would think even if he didn’t say it out loud.