Daniel Radcliffe grew before our eyes on-screen, while many people grew together with him. And now he’s tried his best to divorce himself from Harry Potter and prove that he’s a talented young actor, not just “The Boy Who Lived.”

This endeavor includes taking on very experimental, bold, and creative indie films. Among them is Kill Your Darlings, where he plays the real-life beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg, and Swiss Army Man, where Radcliffe plays the most insolent and obnoxious, yet sincere and thoughtful role of... a farting corpse. Yes, you read that right. And he nailed it.

Jake Gyllenhaal earned himself the reputation of Hollywood’s darling weirdo. And he has surely accomplished some intriguing performances over the past decade. His breakthrough role was the eponymous hero of Donnie Darko, a strange brooding character in a strange brooding movie.

Nowadays, he often plays people who could be best described as “freaky,” ranging from “struggling yet uncanny” (Enemy, Zodiac, Nocturnal Animals) to “funny psychopaths” (Nightcrawler, Demolition, Spider-Man: Far From Home).

Robert Pattinson, another of Hollywood’s oddballs, went on a crusade to pick as many weird roles as possible to distance himself from Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the glittering vampire from Twilight. It’s no wonder his projects are oftentimes both controversial and challenging. Such is, for example, the monochromic horror The Lighthouse. Pattison said: “I just want to do something weird,” and admitted that he accepted the role after he read the script and realized: “I’ll have a cool mustache.”

He is also playing Bruce Wayne in the upcoming Batman movie, which promises to be something very special, if for no other reason than because he outright refuses to work out for the role.

Elijah Wood’s career peaked with his role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So he has decidedly gone wild with his movie choices and has taken on several unusual projects.

He’s the star of 2 odd TV series: the endearingly odd Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and the darkly odd Wilfred. Wood leans mostly toward slashers, horrors, and black comedy — and everything in-between — a far cry from the fantasy adventures of Frodo Baggins.

Perhaps, Ezra Miller’s 2 most recognizable performances include teen dramas: The Perks of Being a Wallflower and We Need to Talk About Kevin. While the first movie is a powerful coming-of-age story, the second is a heavy thriller, exploring mother-son relationships, parenting failures, and “difficult children.”

Miller’s career drastically progressed to bigger scale movies, and now he’s featured in both DC superhero films and Harry Potter’s spinoff franchise Fantastic Beasts.

People tend to dismiss Kristen Stewart because of her part in the Twilight franchise, yet she has long proven herself to be a versatile actress. Like her costar, she now has some intriguingly off-beat movies under her belt. Among them is the horror Underwater, set on a deep-sea rig where filming often required actors to be submerged. As a result, the movie took a great toll on Stewart, both physically and mentally.

And, who would have guessed, now she’s playing Princess Diana in an upcoming movie. As the director has said: “Kristen can be very mysterious and very fragile and ultimately very strong,” and this is exactly what they need for Lady Di. So it’s time for Stewart to blow the dust off of her British accent.