Daniel Radcliffe to play whistleblower Edward Snowden in new play

'Harry Potter' star has signed on for off-Broadway production 'Privacy'

13th April 2016

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe will reportedly portray former CIA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden in an off-Broadway play.

Entertainment Weekly reports the play, Privacy, that will open the Newman Theater in New York on July 5 and run until August 7.

The play will “explore how technology and privacy relate in our current digital age, having been inspired by the revelations of Edward Snowden”.

Radcliffe will play a character inspired by Snowden, a role described as “a lonely man who moves to a new city”.

Meanwhile, Radcliffe will star as the talking, farting corpse of a suicide victim in controversial film Swiss Army Man. Watch the trailer here.