Daniel Radcliffe might be fed up of the magic metaphors that have followed him around like a slack-jawed collector’s-item-wielding wizard obssessive ever since he played Harry Potter, but we’re going to use a couple right now. Because we can’t think of anything more magical to come out from Hollywood this week (OK, it’s only Monday, but still) than news that he’s trying to remove the phrase ‘friend zone’ from our cultural lexicon.
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In his new film, What If?, he plays a young guy who’s in a will-they-won’t-they relation/friendship with a girl. However, when film bosses suggest they would call the movie The Friend Zone, he basically yelled ‘expelliarmus’ to the whole notion.
‘I was like, no, we can’t do that, because it’s not a [phrase] I love,’ he told The Guardian, before making this gem of a point: ‘The friend zone refers to a very male thing... you never hear women say they’ve been put in the friend zone. And I think that’s because it’s just used by men who are pissed off that their mate won’t sleep with them.’
Which is so true, right? The idea of the ‘friend zone’ is so bleak, as it works on the understanding that a man would only ever want to be friends with a woman with the eventual goal of eventually sleeping with her. We’re really glad Daniel’s pointed it out in such a snappy way. Maybe he’d like to be* our* friend?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.