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Daniel Radcliffe

S HARRY POTTER, DANIEL RADCLIFFE USED MAGIC TO GET OUT COUNTLESS life-threatening situations. But as Tim Jenkin, the real-life hero he plays in the new film , released in theaters March 6, he needs more than just spells and—based on the book written by Jenkin, who also spent time on the set—also serves as a heart-pounding thriller. “It functions as the story of the important moment in these guys’ lives and where South Africa was politically, but also it is just a great prison-break movie.” It is “the most insane,” thing Radcliffe says, “to just make keys and walk out of the prison one day.”

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