Yesterday, Daniel Radcliffe made an appearance on social media site Reddit for its popular conversation with a celebrity segment, “Ask me Anything.” The title says it all, as fans received the chance to literally ask Daniel anything.
Although there was a surprising lack of “Will you marry me?” questions, fans were eager to hear his personal opinions. Radcliffe also made remarks to advertise his new film Horns, which will be released on Oct. 31. The film follows Ig Perrish, who is a suspect in the murder of his girlfriend after she is mysteriously killed. Throughout the following days, Perish grows an unusual set of horns, hence the title.
Daniel Radcliffe is also famously known for his role as Harry Potter, whose poster made a magical appearance on pre-teen walls everywhere. Although Daniel’s acting interest thrived as early as age five, it was the wand flashing franchise that popularized the Radcliffe name. His 10-year career as the Hogwarts student has prepared Daniel for future successes, such as his Broadway debut in Equus. The announcement of Daniel’s nudity in the play proved its controversial content, and makes fans wonder, where can I buy that poster?
He is constantly idolized by people of all ages, making his Reddit AMA an appropriate addition to the site. Check out the top ten moments featured in this Radcliffe conversation.
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10. Actors
When asked what actors Radcliffe would want to work with in the future, Daniel responded with some pretty big names.
“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.”
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9. Halloween
Daniel was asked what he was going to be for Halloween, and after explaining that he had just recently viewed the original Star Wars movie, Radcliffe said he was thinking of a galaxy inspired garment.
“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?” Joking around, some fans responded with slave Leia, while others took the question seriously, requesting that he be Han Solo, or better yet, “Dan Solo.”
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8. Roller coaster
“Where is the most obscure place you have ever gotten recognized?” Once he explained that he was wearing a snood, which is a head cozy that only reveals the eyes, Daniel replied with, “I was on a roller coaster, I think it was in Paris, actually, and it was in the middle of winter… 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.”
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7. Comic book
Daniel responded to the question “If you could be any book or comic character beside Harry Potter, who would you be?” with a rather unconventional 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.”
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6. Guns
One of the questions Radcliffe answered was, “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?”
The Harry Potter actor reminisced, “Michael Gambon was always also hilarious to be around. Something not every knows about Michael is that he collects and restores antique dueling pistols…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!”
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5. Horcrux
Radcliffe was especially impressed when someone asked, “If you had a Horcrux, what would it be,” for he had never heard that Harry Potter question before.
Having to think deeply about his answer, Daniel said, “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.”
A funny fan response highlighted the danger of his Horcrux being uploaded to the infamous cloud.
“Just don't let your soul upload to iCloud or everyone will have it...”
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4. Tattoo
One of the questions in the segment was, “What is the weirdest thing someone has asked you to sign?”
“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… 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,” explained Daniel.
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3. South Park
Another question asked of Daniel was, “Of all the Harry Potter spoofs and parodies online such as Potter Puppet Pals and Dear Reader Wizard People which are your favorites?”
Daniel expressed, “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 [politically correct] joke, but it really made me laugh."
As Daniel had expressed, the video contains insulting language:
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2. Prank
Radcliffe was asked about the greatest prank he had ever pulled on the Harry Potter set. Rather, he responded with a prank that made him victim:
“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… 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.”
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1. Sign off
Possibly the most insight viewers had into Radcliffe’s personal life was during his goodbye message. The actor posted, “Thank you very very much to everybody. Your questions have been awesome. But I really have to pee now. So we'll have to do this again sometime.”
Throughout the "AMA" segment, Daniel had proven he had an open personality, but c’mon Radcliffe, TMI.