But if The Woman In Black is his only inked-in gig to come, it should offer scares and substance enough to be getting on with, given Radcliffe’s enthusiasm for the script.

“It was genuinely frightening. I’d never read something before that made a chill run up my spine numerous times.

“Then I met James [Watkins] and realised we were on the same page in terms of how we saw the film – not just a horror movie but as a character-driven horror movie with the capacity to move people as a comment on grief.”