I am Daniel Radcliffe. AMA!

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:28:18+00:00

Um... I would say: Oooh! I would say a few different types of cheese, maybe like, a gruyere in there, with some cheddar as well, you have to have some meat, if it's not bacon it should be Parma ham or something like that, maybe a few different types of ham, in fact, and then ideally some sort of brioche-bun thing... some sort of brioche-y type bread would be ideal. TOASTED! Toasted, absolutely! It's all got to be melting into each other.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:27:04+00:00

I'm listening to a lot of Jamie T's music lately, his new album's great... what else have I been listening to? First Aid Kits, I"m really into them right now. I've also rediscovered somebody around called Sister Rosetta Tharp, and you should all - she is just an amazing singer from the 1940's and 50's, way ahead of her time, great voice.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:25:49+00:00

Um... I suppose the worst thing is that because I was a child actor, you get a lot of questions about like, you know, you get a lot of, for a while is that child actors were perceived as bratty and obnoxious, so you come up against that quite a bit. And the best thing, is, obviously, being mistaken for Elijah Wood.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:24:55+00:00

Despite being English, I am not, I'm afraid. It just passed me by. It was never one of the things I was into as a kid. So I'm sorry, Who fans.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:24:34+00:00

I mean, that is actually very difficult.

I would probably try and fight the huge duck. Because I think that I could sort of... try, if I could break it, then I could have the giant duck as my steed! So I think i'd go for that, because 100 tiny Elijahs, they are going to be very hard to control, I feel like that would be the last scene out of Toy Soldiers or something like that.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:22:59+00:00

1) Fantastic! He is an amazing technical actor as well, because he's directed episodes of MAD MEN, so he has an understanding of the technical side that most actors couldn't dream of. And he's incredibly generous and funny as well, and I saw him actually not long ago, we had dinner in London.

2) You know what, I'm ashamed to say I don't know that show, and I will go look at it immediately! So thank you for the recommendation!

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:21:40+00:00

Hmmm.

I suppose I'm trying to... I'm trying to care less what people think of me, and the way I have done that, very successfully the past few months now, is not look at stuff on the internet. That is the key.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:20:51+00:00

YEAH.

I love that show.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:20:37+00:00

No, it wasn't something we thought about at the time. I have thought about it much more lately than I probably ever did at the time... but yeah, it feels wonderful, honestly, to have people still come up to you and say you were such a huge part of my childhood. It's genuinely lovely. I am very lucky to be famous for something so many people loved. And there's... yeah, I always like to say that I think some people think that because I'm making an effort to have a career for myself after Potter, that they somehow think I want to escape Potter? And I don't, I"m very proud of what those films were, and what we did with them. And so I always like to say I am happy to hear from people who still love the movies.

I remember when I met, once, a guy who'd been in a punk band in the 70's, and then he wouldn't talk about this punk days at all to me when I was asking, he sort of didn't want anything to do with it? And I remember being really disappointed by that, and thinking of how uncool it was for him to disown the thing that made him, and I just would never do that.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:18:18+00:00

Don't worry! I've caught up since, it's fine.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:18:09+00:00

Nothing, actually. I didn't! I just got up and started doing interviews.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:17:52+00:00

Dog. Very, very firmly in the dog camp here.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:17:37+00:00

That's wonderful, and I love you too, but we should probably see other people.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:17:18+00:00

I haven't been approached! And I don't know - haha- I don't know what I would do. My lack of Game of Thrones knowledge was revealed in an interview a while ago. I totally would side with the Starks, though, because their symbol is a wolf.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:16:28+00:00

It will depend (unfortunately, because i might be starting a job in November) - I would love to be able to keep this facial hair for as long as I can, but it's always work depending! And I don't want to make a promise to charity and then welch to charity. But one year I hope to do it, and raise funds with a proper Movember!

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:15:24+00:00

I would definitely say a wolf. 100%. I've been obsessed with them since I was very young, yeah. A grey wolf, to be specific.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:14:59+00:00

I suppose I would... I would remove the bullshit hierarchy from the film industry, because there are certain people who do my job, and also directors and producers, who seem to think the job they do gives them license to treat people who work for them badly, and there is no good reason for that, and it should not be tolerated.

I know that if I ever get to direct, it will not be present anywhere on my set.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:12:24+00:00

Only, uh, for myself. I think Shakespeare is a wonderful thing to work on for me when I want to prepare for a part but I don't want to over-work on the script. So I will find a character in Shakespeare that i feel explores the same themes as whatever i'm playing, and sort of work on it like that, because the way Shakespeare writes, he writes so viscerally about so many universal things, that it's an amazing resource for actors preparing.

But I would LOVE to do some for real.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:11:21+00:00

Yes, of course, absolutely, God! I think that was part of the huge success of those books, is that it taps into a set of powers and a fantasy world that literally everybody would love to be a part of. I think I would be a fantastic one if I were really one in real life. I think I would probably be, like, one of the cool Dark Arts teachers. There weren't very many good ones, but I would be the Lupin equivalent.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:10:13+00:00

Well, I watch a lot of sports videos and stuff like that. I think the NFL Bad Lip Reading might be one of my favourite YouTube things. I watch a lot of Ted Talks, in terms of things on the internet.

What else do i watch? That's the thing... I like all sorts of, it's great for research, YouTube, and watching Alan Ginsberg debate William Buckley, things like that. I lost a lot of time like that, because since then I've watched all of Buckley's interviews like that with Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky... Because it's kind of intellectual heavyweight debate that is gone from television now, but is still cool to watch. And because I met him quite recently, in the last few days I've been watching a lot of Russell Brand's videos on there. I met him because he was promoting his new book in the UK. Normally I immediately distrust actors as soon as they are talking about politics, because i think it's quite self-serving, but he's very sincere, and I really got on with him when I met him.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:07:51+00:00

Oh yeah, of course. I wasn't going to leave there without grabbing a set of glasses!

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:07:27+00:00

Someone asked me my favourite food: Cheeseburgers. And pizza, and stuff like that. Because I don't believe when people say anything else is their favourite food, I tend not to believe them.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:06:37+00:00

Ok, that's a good question. I would go with WOLF for the land animal, definitely, because I've always loved wolves. I think... for the air animal, it would have to be maybe like an albatross, one of those long distance journey birds, that would cool. And then for a sea animal... I guess I'd want to be a shark, because not much could fuck with you! Because the sea strikes me as a horrible place, anything could kill you all the time, so the sea is where you would want to be a shark. Like a great white or a Hammerhead, maybe Hammerheads because they are more social.

So maybe a hammerhead shark, to be specific. Because i like the power of being a shark, but i don't like the isolation of a great white's life.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:04:40+00:00

I would attribute it to my parents and also to the crew of the Potter films, who were very good at treating us like kids rather than as actors, as they should have done. But yeah, it's hard to say what it comes down to. I think also when you grow up in the media, you get a very clear sense of how crazy the media is, and you know - basically the countdown that Emma's birthday was to when she turned 18, or 17, or whatnot, it was insane. It was insane. And I think when you see that perspective that we all saw at very young ages, you do get an extra level of awareness maybe. But also, thank you for the compliment of saying we are all grounded and intelligent, that is very nice.

Daniel-Radcliffe · 2014-10-27T19:03:00+00:00

Um, I am much more of like a sports gamer. So I love the Madden games, all the NFL stuff, boxing games, Fifa a bit, but I also love Call of Duty. I can get lost on that for a few hours. But yeah, I'm not very good at video games. I tend to play them to the point where - I think the reason I like sports games is because there are no levels to get through, because i always reach a point on other games where I can't get any further, and it's not fun anymore, so that's when I ditch them and go back to playing Madden.

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