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10-28-2014, 12:15 AM
| | | Daniel Radcliffe talks his personal Horcrux, fave Harry Potter scene to film, more
Daniel Radcliffe took part in an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit Monday, where he opened up quite a bit about his Harry Potter days, and even answering a few new questions, including what his new favourite scene to film was (Gringotts in Deathly Hallows: Part 2), and what his Horcrux would be and why. More on that, and the many stories of his resemblance to fellow actor Elijah Wood (of Lord of the Rings fame), can be read below. Quote: Harry Potter is obviously a Gryffindor, but what is Daniel Radcliffe?
Daniel Radcliffe: I mean, I... to me, it's not a... to me I absolutely think I would be in Gryffindor! But there's never any doubt of that for me. Yeah. I like, maybe I'm just biased because I played one for so long, but I could never picture myself in any other colours.
Quote: If you had a Horcrux, what would it be?
Daniel Radcliffe: Um... that's a really good question. First of all, congratulations to you for asking me a Harry Potter question I have NEVER been asked before, that is not easily achieved!
I would say... I was gonna say my iPod, prolly put it in that, but I would put it inside an album on the iPod, so you'd have to open that album. So I somehow want it to be connected to a particular album that means something, like Ziggy Stardust. So that's how I'd want to do that.
Quote: Over the course of the Harry Potter films, you got to work with some amazing actors like Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman. Can you share any interesting stories about working with them?
Daniel Radcliffe: Well, one of the moments in my life that will forever be... you know, immortal in my memory, would be - because Gary Oldman is a bass player, a very good bass player, yeah, and, um, I started learning bass on the 3rd film when he joined the cast. And so one day, I think actually maybe on my 14th birthday, that day started with Gary teaching me the bass line to "Come Together" by the Beatles, yeah! And you know, that was just an amazing, amazing moment.
What else... Michael Gambon was always also hilarious to be around. Something not every knows about Michael is that he collects and restores antique dueling pistols. Yeah! And they're really his passion, much more than acting is, and, uh, I remember he one morning gave me a demonstration of how you would shoot a man in a duel with a 17th century pistol in one hand and his morning coffee in the other! Yeah, so my life has been blessed with many surreal, cool moments like that.
Quote: Not including Harry Potter, who is your favorite character in the Harry Potter franchise?
Daniel Radcliffe: Probably Sirius. Like I always loved the character, and then Gary's portrayal of him I thought was perfect. Or Lupin, really. Any of the characters my dad used to hang out with, other than Wormtail. There was always something bout those two guys I loved a lot.
Quote: What was the best prank you pulled on the HP set?
Daniel Radcliffe: God... I should probably about the one that was pulled on ME, rather than any I pulled. Because it came from a very unexpected place.
There's - in the 3rd film - there's a shot in the great hall of all the kids sleeping in the great hall, and the camera starts very very wide, and comes in so that it's an inch from my face, a very long developing set, yeah, and Alan Rickman decided he would plant one of those fart machines in my, uh, sleeping bag, and they waited until like -the camera had come in for this huge DRAMATIC developing shot, and then unleashed this tremendous noise in the great hall.
I immediately thought: "This is one of the other kids f------ around, and we were going to get in trouble."
But as it turns out, it was one of the members of Britain's acting royalty.
I think I laughed a lot, was probably a bit embarrassed, but it was really really funny.
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Assuming you read all the Potter books before their respective films were made, did you ever get upset about changes or omissions from the stories when you were reading your script?
Daniel Radcliffe: Ehm - not particularly.
I think we had very quickly become aware that stuff was not going to be in all the films that we couldn't fit everything in, I think I remember the thing early on that me, Emma and Rupert were all slightly surprised by, that we had all ABSOLUTELY LOVED the chapter in the Chamber of Secrets book about the - I think was it Nearly Headless Nick's Birthday Party? But I think it was some sort of a ghost birthday party that was not in the films, and I remember at the time we were all quite surprised by that. I know some people would have been quite happy to see a 4 hour long Harry Potter movie with every detail in there, but some people also would not have...
Quote: How terrifying was it to have a black magic version of Hans Gruber [Alan Rickman in 'Die Hard'] yelling at you for years?
Daniel Radcliffe: HAHAHA!
Um, yeah! I mean, pretty terrifying! The first few years I was genuinely quite intimidated by Alan, just because of the voice and the way he sort of carries himself. But as I grew up, I realized he was one of the kindest and most supportive members of that cast to me. I mean, Alan has cut short holidays that he's been having to come and see me in plays, and take me out for dinner afterwards to talk to me about stuff, I think when he realized how serious I was about wanting to be an actor, and he knew what a particular world the Potter set was to grow up in, he just sort of made it his - he just really wanted to help us all and has been very helpful to me, certainly.
Quote: What was your favorite scene to do from the Harry Potter movies?
Daniel Radcliffe: Yeah... favourite scene to film... god... that is a really hard question, to pick just one... the first thing that comes to mind, and it's a silly one, but doing all the Gringott's stuff in the last movie with Rupert and Helena and Warwick and Emma, that was like a really fun time. We were all enjoying ourselves in that, it's an action sequence so it was quite, it was more of a technical challenge than an emotional one, so it was a lot of fun to get right.
Quote: Of all the Harry Potter spoofs and parodies online such as Potter Puppet Pals and Dear Reader Wizard People which are your favorites?
Daniel Radcliffe: Em - the Potter Puppet Pals were always, I thought, very very funny. It is hard to make really good Harry Potter jokes, though, because a lot of them have been done, but I thought Puppet Pals were very funny. The best "Alan Rickman as Snape" impression was, 100%, Bill Hader when I did Saturday Night Live, yeah, but maybe my favourite joke at Harry Potter's expense was in South Park, the episode, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring. It's not a very PC joke, but it really made me laugh.
Quote: What was it like working with Richard Harris?
Daniel Radcliffe: Wonderful. I mean, he was just such a sweet man. You know... kind of relentlessly charming with women, I think I'm pretty sure I saw him flirting with female journalists at press conferences, I remember being a young child in awe of it... but yeah, he was a legend, and so to have been able to work with somebody of that generation, which was an incredibly important generation of actors for Britain, is amazing.
Quote: Daniel, did you put your name into the goblet of fire?!?!?!
Daniel Radcliffe: You know what, I don't think we did I'm pretty sure. Because I think that by that point, they had figured out my handwriting was so bad that they would never let it be seen in the film. So I'm pretty sure one of the props guys wrote "Harry Potter" neatly on a piece of paper for me to put in.
Quote: Can you and Elijah Wood make a movie where you're twins and one of you is evil but we don't know which until the bloodbath ending?
Daniel Radcliffe: YES! Just write that movie! And absolutely!
Or could there be a film where one of us, is like, an impersonator of the other? We've got to eke out some mileage out of this mistaken identity!
Quote: What was it like to work on the Lord of the Ring movies?
Daniel Radcliffe: HAHA! Brilliant. Just like... it was exhausting, but New Zealand's lovely all year 'round. If you were change one thing about the world what would it be and do you think your fame would help?
Daniel Radcliffe: I suppose I would... I would remove the BS 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.
Quote: What is the weirdest thing someone has asked you to sign?
Daniel Radcliffe: Um... well, recently a couple of people have asked me to sign a piece of paper so they can then get it tattooed. And, you know, that's pretty weird. Just because I have pretty horrible handwriting - that AMA sign was me printing, but you should see my cursive, it's not pretty! So yeah, I would advise people against doing that. I have signed a picture of Elijah Wood - and I think we've also both said in interviews that we would like each other to play each other in films of our lives - but I was on a red carpet in Japan, and this Japanese man gave me a picture of Elijah, and I knew i wasn't going to get past the language barrier to explain, so I wrote "I am not Elijah Wood, signed Daniel Radcliffe."
And then also people seem obsessed with getting me to sign baseballs, which I don't understand... Quidditch balls would be relevant, at least, but just baseballs, for no reason at all.
Quote: Daniel Radcliffe: 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.
Quote: Which actors do you want to work with in the future?
Daniel Radcliffe: George Clooney... Jennifer Lawrence... I just think they'd be really cool, Paul Rudd, I met him and was like "You're awesome!" I just want to work with people you can get on with, and you have a good rapport with, and those are definitely some of them. Also directors more than actors, whom I think "I want to work with them." So you know, people like the Coen Brothers, or Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, again, it's directors i suppose I get more excited about than actors.
Quote: Hey Daniel! What are you going to be for Halloween?
Daniel Radcliffe: That's a GOOD question. I don't know yet, I haven't narrowed it down, but because I've very recently - like within the last 6 months - watched the original Star Wars movies, I'm like a brand new Star Wars fan, so I might go with something Star Wars related! And I got to go out to the Star Wars set recently, because a lot of my friends are working on it crew-wise.. so something Star Wars related, but not sure yet.
Any suggestions? I'm leaning towards Boba Fett, but I haven't found a good enough costume yet.
Quote: But seriously, how did you perfect your American dialect? Are there any particular words or sounds you still find tricky? As a yank, it's fascinating to imagine affecting a dialect that sounds so neutral to my ears. Keep up the great work!
Daniel Radcliffe: First of all, thank you to that person!
And, yeah, you know, in England now when we grow up, there we are, so suffused by American culture, from you know, shows like FRIENDS and FRASIER to the Toy Story movies which I saw when I was obviously very young - I think I've been practicing my American accent - I used to be really into WWF and I would play with wrestling action figures and give them American accents, so I think I've been practicing since I was about 9.
The only thing I would add to that is that I've been told by quite a few people that i sound like Chris Columbus, who directed the first 2 Harry Potter films, so I think subconsciously I may be doing an impression of him.
Quote: Hello Daniel! If you could be any book or comic character beside Harry Potter, who would you be?
Daniel Radcliffe: Um.... Well, growing up, my favourite comic book character was Daredevil, so Daredevil was great, but there was also, like, if I could be one character from all of literature it would be... Woland from my favourite book, wait no, I change my answer, I would be Behemoth the cat from my favourite book which is called The Master and Margarita, and he is like, a 5 foot tall black cat who shoots a revolver.
Quote: Do you prefer Dan, Daniel, Danny... what?
Daniel Radcliffe: Just "Dan" is best. "Daniel" is fine, but I always sort of think I'm in trouble. And "Danny," I think, if you call yourself "Danny" you give everyone around you the right to sing "Danny Boy" to you ALL THE TIME, and it's a nice song, but once you've heard it 1,000 times, you don't want to hear it every time you introduce yourself to somebody.
Quote: Do you go on YouTube often, and if so, what do you look at? Who are you subscribed to on there?
Daniel Radcliffe: 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.
Quote: Hi Dan!! Where is the most obscure place you have ever gotten recognized?
Daniel Radcliffe: Oh! I mean... anywhere you'd care to name. I've been recognized in Antigua, I got recognized a lot there.
There isn't anywhere in the world Potter hasn't reached.
I was on a roller coaster, I think it was in Paris, actually, and it was in the middle of winter, and I was wearing basically like a thing in England, don't know if you have them here, we called them "Snoods" - they're like a warm thing that covers you whole head, basically only shows your eyes, and I was like 12 years old, I was wearing one on a roller coaster, and I guess my eyes do give me away because the people BEHIND us somehow recognized me and asked an autograph when we got off the coaster !And we were like "How did you SEE me?!" it was impressive.
Quote: If you could transform into a flying, land, and sea animal which 3 animals would you choose?
Daniel Radcliffe: 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 **** 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.
Quote: Hi Daniel, if the opportunity presents itself some day one day what would you prefer, play James Bond or play the villain?
Daniel Radcliffe: The villain. 100%. I think it's generally more interesting, and honestly, more what I'm suited for, to be honest. I don't see myself necessarily - I mean, I know there was a lot of action in Potter and I liked those sequences, but I don't think of myself as a natural action star.
Quote: What movies/tv shows/podcasts/anything make you laugh the hardest?
Daniel Radcliffe: Um, the Colbert Report. Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yeah, like I JUST discovered them, and I am obsessed at the moment! They're amazing yeah! And there's also an English show, called The Thick of It, which is kind of a show - Armando Ianucci who does VEEP, it was the political show that spring boarded him to start working here, and it's some of the best, funniest television that's ever been made.
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