Radcliffe in agony after Frankenstein role

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe says playing hunchback Igor in the new Frankenstein movie has left him in agony.

British actor Daniel Radcliffe is undergoing intensive osteopathy after playing a hunchback in Frankenstein left him in agony.

The Harry Potter star has been working on a new movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, playing the doctor's hunchback assistant Igor.

Radcliffe, who recently finished a West End run in The Cripple Of Inishmaan, has now revealed bending his back for the role has left him with spinal troubles.

"I went from playing (the cripple) to playing a hunchback and the hunchback is much harder. I'm having lots of osteopathy - lots of bone-cracking sessions," the actor told the London Evening Standard.


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