Daniel Radcliffe has explained that he lost his confidence after starring in Harry Potter.
The 23-year-old star, who played the titular wizard in all eight movies, admitted he worried that he wouldn’t be good enough to tackle other roles at the end of the blockbuster franchise.
Speaking to The Independent Radar magazine, Radcliffe said: ''With any kind of artistic thing it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence.
''That's why I'm terrible with down time. And actually what's been great about the last year and a half is that I have found a confidence. Before, basically, by the time we got to the end of 'Potter', I was going, 'I don't know if I can do this, I don't know if I'm good enough.'''
Radcliffe has since landed a role in A Young Doctor's Notebook which is a TV adaption of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel A Country Doctor's Notebook.
Speaking about his new project, he added: ''They had no idea, that I was this obsessive fan. I read it and immediately loved it, and read it again immediately afterwards, and then, for my 21st birthday I went to Russia to visit his apartment, as my present to myself.''