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Hot Ones - Season 29 - Episode 05: Daniel Radcliffe Worries About the Aftermath While Eating Spicy Wings
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00:00This is made by Bakery?
00:02In Vermont, of all places, you know?
00:04You guys supposed to be chill.
00:13Hey, what's going on, everybody?
00:14For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.
00:17It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
00:19And today we're joined by Daniel Radcliffe.
00:21He's an Emmy Award-nominated actor whose work spans everything from intimate indies
00:24to billion-dollar franchises, the theater, and beyond.
00:26If you're in New York, Ketchum Ones has returned to Broadway in Every Brilliant Thing at the
00:30Hudson Theater, and he also stars opposite Tracy Morgan in the NBC comedy series The Fall and
00:34Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which is set to premiere on February 23rd.
00:38Daniel Radcliffe, welcome to the show.
00:40Thank you very much for having me back.
00:41Yeah.
00:42What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the gauntlet, this time outside
00:45of the comfort of your own home?
00:47Yeah, so I do have to, I'm coming here today with a story and a recommendation, which is
00:52that you need to do, like, exit interviews or catch-up interviews or something, because
00:58we did this five years ago.
01:00My girlfriend was in the apartment, and I was like, I'm not going to nail that.
01:02Like, that was fine.
01:03It was like, they were hot, but like, I was all right.
01:05Three hours later, I'm sorry, we're about to eat, but like, lasers coming out of my arse
01:11and, and, and, and my mouth.
01:14Like, it was both ends, it was bad, and I was, I had been so cocky before that, that
01:20my girlfriend was entirely unsympathetic.
01:22She was just like, you did this to yourself, and also were unbearable about how well it
01:25had gone, so I'm like, not giving you that much sympathy, but I was in real, I was in
01:31a bad way.
01:31I'm just saying, I feel like what I'll do today is I'll send a text.
01:35Okay.
01:36After we're done, like, when I next go to the bathroom, I'll let you know how it goes, because
01:40I do feel like that's how these all need to end.
02:06Great.
02:06Awesome.
02:13This is very nice.
02:19Yeah, this was very nice.
02:20That's well, well done.
02:21Garlic Delight.
02:22Yeah, Garlic Delight.
02:24So I'd imagine playing the straight man and a two-hander opposite Tracy Morgan as an actor's
02:29dream in a lot of ways.
02:30Yeah.
02:30Was there a day on set or a scene where you began to really recognize your potential as
02:34a comedy duo?
02:36What Tracy can do is unteachable and unlearnable.
02:39He is just one of the most naturally funny human beings I've ever spent time around.
02:43The original pitch was just like, we just think you and Tracy together is a weird, insane
02:48combination, and we like the idea of him being crazy and you trying to corral him.
02:53He is exactly what you expect in that, like, he will, every day you're with Tracy, he'll
02:59say, like, four or five of the most insane things you've ever heard a human being say.
03:03But then also, he's, like, incredibly sweet and, like, very vulnerable, actually, and open.
03:07And, yeah, it was really, it was a pleasure.
03:13That was a pleasant introduction.
03:18Okay.
03:20Yes, a little hotter, still pleasant.
03:23That's the format.
03:24Not going for the milk yet.
03:26Yeah.
03:27Do you have any, is this really happening moments, reflecting back on your experience
03:31doing live theater?
03:33Like, what's the most unforgivable thing someone can do in the audience when they're watching
03:37a live stage performance?
03:39The most inexplicable piece of, two, okay, two inexplicable pieces of audience behavior
03:43I once had, one was on Equus, two girls who were on the onstage seating, there's a scene
03:48going on behind me with two other actors, and two girls would start talking to me, as
03:51me, and just being like, Dan, Dan, look up here.
03:53And I was like, no, I can't, like, and so they, I think, they weren't kicked out, but
03:58they moved them from the onstage seating to the not onstage seating at the intermission.
04:02And my other favorite audience member was a guy that I was doing a play in the UK,
04:07called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
04:10He came in to the first act, had, like, a foot-long sandwich wrapped in tinfoil.
04:15My friend had to make a massive speech, and he was, like, unwrapping this loud tinfoil sandwich,
04:19ate the entire sandwich for the rest of the first act, and then went to sleep.
04:23And he's front row, by the way, so we see all of this.
04:26And he just went to sleep, and we were like, this fucking guy, like, what is it?
04:29What did he come to the end?
04:30Then, came back in for the second act, completely attentive, leapt up at the end, led the standing
04:35ovation, and we were like, wait, you had a good time?
04:39You were with it?
04:40Like, it was, yeah, you know, some people are, uh, you're weird.
04:43And you never know, like, that's the thing.
04:45Sometimes the people you see who look stone-faced and having a horrible time, that's just how
04:48people take stuff in.
04:49Sometimes you see them afterwards, and they're like, oh my god, we loved it.
04:51So you're like, okay, well, maybe.
04:58White hot mustard sauce from Quentin's.
05:01Hell yeah.
05:04Oh.
05:06You like it?
05:07This is very tasty.
05:08Yeah.
05:08I knew you would.
05:11That's good.
05:12That's like, yeah, hot English mustard with more of a kick.
05:17Great.
05:18Well done, Quentin.
05:20Is there a moment that you can identify as pivotal in developing your own real perspective
05:25as an actor versus, you know, being young and feeling like your job is to hit your marks
05:29and say your lines?
05:30Yeah.
05:30I still think that's my main job, by the way.
05:31I think most actors really underrate hitting your mark and saying your lines.
05:35But, uh, there was a thing that happened towards the, like, during the end of Potter when I was
05:40like an older teenager, well, you're just, you're in the most self-conscious phase of your life.
05:45And I hated my face and it doing anything.
05:50And so I was like, okay, well, if I just, if I just kind of go stoic and don't really
05:55move my face,
05:56then it can't do it.
05:57Nothing can go wrong.
05:57And I think that came out of, like, real, like, self-consciousness.
06:01And self-consciousness is the enemy of acting in any shape or form.
06:06When I was doing my first musical on Broadway, I learned very quickly that actually whatever
06:11natural weirdness I have from my face or from expressiveness or my physicality, you've got
06:17to lean into it.
06:18Whatever, you know, any weirdness there is to be lent into rather than avoided.
06:22I feel like that's a big lesson through my life, generally.
06:30Got a bit of a tingle happening, so just permanently now.
06:34Yeah.
06:36That's why I should have stopped.
06:39We'd both, we'd talked about it, we'd had the moment.
06:41I didn't need to take that extra bite.
06:42That's a mistake.
06:46Again, I think that's deceptive because I can, like, it's nice.
06:50And I could eat more, but I'm not going to.
06:52You're right.
06:52It's deceptive, you know?
06:54It comes in with that peach up front, so you feel like it's in the clear.
06:57And then it starts to sizzle here at the end.
07:00It's amazing how long something can carry on going after it's not in your mouth anymore.
07:07So you've played a character with horns on his head, you've played a character with guns
07:12for hands, and you've played a literal flatulent corpse.
07:14Yeah.
07:15For an actor, which of those was most challenging from just a pure comfort perspective?
07:20Oh, from a pure comfort perspective, that's interesting.
07:24Um, the most challenging one was probably horns on that.
07:26Not because of the actual horns, but generally the level of prosthetics I had on that movie
07:31was a lot.
07:32There was a full body prosthetic by the end.
07:34I hate prosthetics.
07:36That's the only thing that I think could get me to turn down a job of a script I like.
07:40And Swiss Army Man was the hardest one to figure out how to do the character.
07:45It's such a singular kind of performance.
07:47Right, because it's not, you're dead, but you're not a zombie, and so you kind of go
07:50like, what is that, what does that look like?
07:51And I really didn't know before I turned up for work, and it was totally putting myself
07:56in the hands of the Daniels, the directors, and like, just asking them what they needed
08:00of me.
08:00Well, great performance.
08:02I love that movie.
08:03I love it.
08:03I'm taking your mind off the heat.
08:05Great, yeah, yeah, thank you.
08:06With a compliment.
08:07That's very nice of you.
08:08But, the bad news is...
08:10I'm going back in.
08:11Tropical Amarillo.
08:12The storm clears for just a second, and then the clouds roll back in.
08:15I feel like the word sweet is doing a lot of work there.
08:23I'm going to not take another bite of it.
08:24That's the smart move.
08:26Yeah, yeah.
08:26Learning from the mistakes along the way.
08:28Yeah, exactly.
08:29Is it true that you spent nearly 42 hours filming underwater for the Goblet of Fire?
08:34And if so, do you remember your drowning signal, and did you have any close calls?
08:38Um, I only once, uh, didn't...
08:41There was a time when we were training for it, where I, um, we were doing, like, mask
08:46clearing exercises.
08:47Like, very basic thing, learning to dive, and you, you breathe, you take a deep breath,
08:53and you take the regulator out, and then you, when you put it back in, you've got to keep
08:57that breath, because you go, to blow the air out.
08:59Um, and I remember, I took the thing out once, and I was like, didn't breathe.
09:03Didn't, don't have any breath to clear this when I get it back on.
09:05And I put it back in, and, uh, yeah, I, I, I was like, like, go, which is, get me
09:12out
09:13of here, that's my drowning signal.
09:14Um, and they, uh, and I got up, and the stunt coordinator looked at me, and just, in
09:18the way that only he could, he's a lovely man called Greg Powell, he just looked at
09:21me and went, well, you won't make that mistake again.
09:22And I was like, no, absolutely right.
09:24Um, but yeah, so we filmed for, uh, six weeks.
09:28We were, I think we, I've heard it quoted that we averaged five seconds of usable footage
09:33per day.
09:34That was one of the things that you go, like, yeah, I'll never, never do something
09:38like this again.
09:39All right, up next, homegrown hell.
09:42Homegrown hell.
09:43I mean, really, you're just, you're, you're trying to hurt people.
09:54As soon as you swallow it, it lets you know that you've made a terrible mistake.
09:59I am going to have another bite, though.
10:00Then I will, too.
10:01Okay, sorry.
10:02Let's fart you.
10:04Okay, great.
10:06I've heard you say that you base roles on originality above all else.
10:09What stands out as, like, the most bizarre or unique pitch you've said yes to?
10:13One of the worst ideas I've ever heard to, during Potter, somebody came to us, I think,
10:21asked, like, they wanted to cast all three of us, me, Emma, and Rupert, as, in a remake
10:26of Wizard of Oz, where Emma was Dorothy.
10:28I can't remember what Rupert was.
10:30And I just remembered that I was going to be the lion, but also he knew karate.
10:34I was, like, a karate-kicking, cowardly lion.
10:37And I remember leaving, I was, like, 14 or 15, and I was like, I don't know a lot about
10:41the world, but this is a bad idea.
10:44This should not be made.
10:50I really have a bone to pick with this one's name, because Nirvana is just, like, that's
10:55a nice thing.
10:56Right.
10:57But you know what?
10:58You haven't tried the sauce yet.
10:59That's true.
11:01That is true.
11:02Maybe.
11:02Let's not judge a sauce by its label, as they say.
11:07Oh, no.
11:08Yeah, I do feel enlightened.
11:09You're right.
11:13Oh, fuck.
11:14Yeah.
11:16Second bite.
11:16Huge mistake.
11:18Many such cases.
11:22Oh, yeah.
11:23No.
11:23Oh, yeah.
11:24But you're in it, you know?
11:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:25You're an actor.
11:26You've got to immerse yourself in the experience, you know?
11:30This definitely falls into the category of, this is a test, but it is a test I enjoy.
11:37When you're like, okay, I want to see, like, I remember this one last time, I was like,
11:41this is bad, and it tastes bad.
11:44Sorry, manufacturers.
11:45It's all good.
11:46This one, it's got, like, at the beginning, it's like, this is a nice taste, and I am now
11:51at the point where I'm like, it's really letting me know that I'm in for a bad time later.
11:55I'm going for the milk.
11:56This requires the milk.
11:57It's that time.
11:58Mm-hmm.
12:00So, watching the Harry Potter 20th anniversary retrospective a few years ago, something that
12:04really stuck with me was the sheer number of classically trained veteran actors who
12:08appeared in the eight films, from Maggie Smith to Gary Oldman, Imelda Staunton, that's
12:13just to name a few.
12:14Without overthinking about it, what stands out as, like, the best acting you got to witness
12:19firsthand?
12:20I mean, Imelda, the thing that, I always love actors that make it look easy, and all of
12:23those guys, like, you know, Gary, or Michael Gambon particularly, Michael Gambon, mate,
12:28you know, obviously, rest in peace, incredible man, he would, you can swear on the show, right?
12:34Yeah, yeah.
12:35He fucked around all the time, like, he would never stop, like, until action had been said,
12:40sometimes he would be, like, trying to make me laugh or doing something.
12:42I like actors who don't take it, some actors love to, like, dress the whole process up in
12:47mystique and being an enigma, and it's all, like, Michael Gambon would, you'd get to
12:52the set, and he'd be, like, what's the shot?
12:54And you'd be, like, oh, it's cameras here, Michael, so you're there in front of it, but
12:57you're looking that way, and he said, oh, what is this, B-O-H-N-A-R?
13:00I was, like, sorry, what's that?
13:01He said, back of head, no acting required.
13:02He's, like, yes, yes, it is.
13:06And when we were doing the sixth film, me and him were, like, doing the final sequence,
13:10and we were, like, in this boat, I can't remember the details, but, like, we're in this
13:14little boat going over to this island, surrounded by bad stuff, and, um, and, uh, he'd be, like,
13:20what's this, uh, T-T-I-A-B, and I was, like, what, two twats in a boat?
13:24Yes, Michael, it is.
13:26Um, so, like, he, and I, like, Imelda, same thing, like, Imelda was, like, not, not fucking
13:31around like Michael Gambon was, but Imelda would be chatting to everybody about anything
13:35and could talk to anyone about anything, and then when action gets said, she's, like, locked
13:39in and so good, and, yeah, I mean, it's just, it's the people who can, who can do the work
13:44without making you constantly aware of how hard they're working are always the people
13:47that seemed the coolest.
13:53Ah, it's the bomb.
13:55Hello again.
14:02I'm taking that one bite, and I'm walking away.
14:05And this one, if you'll recall, is immediate, you know, like, the second you start to swallow
14:10is when it tries to.
14:12Yeah.
14:13Wow.
14:14You can really track that one, where it is in your body.
14:17Like, you can really just, like, it's about there now, yeah, yeah, yeah, just the whole
14:20way down your digestive system.
14:23If you recall, can you break down, step by step, how to make a fool's gold sandwich?
14:28Ooh.
14:31I literally had a speech about this, didn't I?
14:33You take one entire loaf, cut it in half, hollow out both sides, layer one half with an entire
14:42jar of peanut butter, and the other half with an entire jar of jam, and then you stuff it
14:48with a pound of crispy bacon.
14:50It's really delicious.
14:52I mean, Elvis liked them for a reason, you know, and he didn't die hungry.
14:56This is really sticking with me.
14:58This is just like, yeah, never leave my lips.
15:00Wow.
15:00But I have to say, you're very eloquent in the answers, you know?
15:05No matter what you're going through, still very eloquent in the answers.
15:10Thank you very much.
15:11I know what you're fighting against.
15:12The walls are closing in over here.
15:15A little bit.
15:16When you get a second to think about it, a second to breathe, the pain, it hits.
15:21Yeah.
15:21But then when the adrenaline spike of action hits.
15:24Right.
15:25I'm ready.
15:26Yeah, exactly.
15:28Yeah, not touching that one again.
15:29Well, why do you do this, guys?
15:30Why do you have a nuclear bomb on your bottle?
15:33I think we just only experienced why.
15:35Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
15:37Wow.
15:37It just doesn't go anywhere.
15:38It just stays at that level.
15:39And these two are worse.
15:46We're here, aren't we?
15:49So this one, Smoke Serrano, Squash Reaper X.
15:53Okay.
15:57Hmm.
15:58Hmm.
16:00Butterfly Bakery of Vermont?
16:02This is made by a bakery?
16:04In Vermont, of all places, you know?
16:06You guys supposed to be chill.
16:08There's a lot of contradictions in this sauce.
16:12But I will say, after the last one.
16:15It's kind of impossible to know which one's which.
16:17Exactly.
16:17I don't know what this bad effect is from.
16:19This could be latent.
16:20Yeah.
16:21I think I prefer the taste of that one, though, to the bomb.
16:24The bomb exists to fuck you up.
16:28You've learned our secrets.
16:30So you seem like someone who's really in love with the whole process of making a film, not just the
16:33lights, camera, and action of it all.
16:35Is there a role on a film set that maybe flies under the radar, but you think is disproportionately important
16:41to the final product?
16:43Like, what's the most underrated role on a film set?
16:45Nobody knows the assistant director's department exists.
16:48Nobody, like, ADs.
16:49We refer to ADs.
16:51And they are what, they run everything.
16:53And I feel like there is some, like, if you see a movie about movies, often the director is shouting
16:58action.
16:58Generally speaking, on set, they don't.
16:59It's the first AD shouts action.
17:01The second AD does the schedule.
17:03The third AD or the second second is, like, running the set, trying to make sure that the actors haven't
17:07wandered off somewhere.
17:08Or, like, you know, it's, the AD department is the lifeblood of any film set.
17:14Focus puller, for anyone who doesn't know, like, as the actor's distance to, or whatever your focus of the scene
17:20is, changes in relation to where the camera is.
17:23Focus pullers are having to make tiny adjustments to make sure you stay in focus.
17:26I think it's probably gotten marginally easier, since we're not dealing with, since things are digital now.
17:33But it's still, like, a job that, and then, you know, if you're doing a really hard thing, and they're
17:39like, oh, it was great.
17:39Sorry, there was a tiny buzz, though.
17:41Everyone's like, oh, you ruined, like, an actor can forget a line a thousand times.
17:45Everyone's like, it's okay, you're doing something so difficult.
17:48And then, and a focus puller will, like, screw up one time, and everyone's like, what are you doing, man?
17:51It's, yeah, so there's a huge imbalance in those ones.
17:56All right, Daniel.
17:57All right, here we go, man.
17:58Wait, what are you doing?
18:01Do I have to do this?
18:01I mean, if you're doing it, I'm going to do it.
18:08It's one of my pet peeves about being on set is, like, actors getting annoyed.
18:12Like, if the boom comes into frame for a second, like, actors being annoyed with technical mistakes from the crew,
18:17when no one's allowed to fuck up with much of that.
18:20Yeah.
18:21Wait, let me see.
18:22I would just, you just put it on the board.
18:23A little bit up to the side, okay.
18:24Yeah, and then that way you can dip it and just have a little more control, because it can avalanche
18:29on you.
18:29All right.
18:31It's a big one as well.
18:32All right, good.
18:32All right.
18:34Cheers.
18:34Cheers.
18:35Thank you for this.
18:35What a run.
18:36Mm-hmm.
18:40And with that, oh, fuck.
18:43Yeah.
18:46It's fine, and then it gets to the back of your mouth.
18:47You're like, oh, no.
18:49The wings of death are behind us, and to close things out, you know, last time you were on the
18:54show,
18:55and this is hard to believe, but that fateful day, more than five years ago,
18:59we were in season 13 with the season 13 lineup,
19:02and you close things out by ranking the sauces from the ones you like the most to the ones you
19:07like the least.
19:08Okay.
19:08Here we are in season 29 with a whole new lineup.
19:11I'm wondering if we can run it back.
19:13Can you rearrange the lineup from your favorite sauces to your least favorite?
19:18Okay.
19:19This is definitely favorite.
19:27Just reverse the order entirely.
19:30Actually, no, I did the Nirvana and these ones in terms of, like, one that's hot, but...
19:36Nirvana surprised you a little bit.
19:38Nirvana surprised me.
19:38I actually, like, ended up enjoying it.
19:40I think more the type of heat than the actual taste,
19:43but it was, like, a heat that was both challenging but fun.
19:51And I'll sweat these two.
19:53And these two.
19:54There you go.
19:56Sorry, the bomb.
19:57You exist for a reason, but it's not a fun reason.
20:00Once again in last place, and look at you, Daniel Radcliffe,
20:06taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale, now for a second time,
20:10and I am very much looking forward to that text follow-up in a couple hours.
20:15Now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
20:18This camera, this camera, this camera.
20:19Let the people know what you have going on in your life.
20:21So, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins comes out on February 23rd.
20:27Yes, I got it right.
20:28I've been asking you all day.
20:29It comes out on February 23rd at 8pm on NBC,
20:32two episodes back-to-back, available the next day on Peacock.
20:35And also, I'm doing a play at the Hudson Theatre called Every Brilliant Thing.
20:39Hopefully, it will be unlike any other play you've kind of seen.
20:43Come see it.
20:46Thank you very much, dude.
20:53Thank you, mate. That was really fun.
20:55You can kind of, if you're asking me the questions that I always get asked,
20:58then I can kind of answer them on autopilot,
21:00whereas, like, having to actually stop and think,
21:02what are you doing now?
21:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:03Walls closing in on you.
21:04Makes for something more interesting.
21:06Lasers coming out of my arse.
21:11People think Hot Ones is chaos,
21:13but this table runs on precision.
21:15Every bottle has a job.
21:17And right now,
21:19Los Calientes Verde
21:20is missing.
21:22Bill,
21:23we have a situation.
21:26Relax, Sean.
21:27Hot Ones hot sauces are available
21:28in over 10,000 grocery stores nationwide.
21:31I have an extra for you.
21:32Thanks so much, Bill.
21:33Crisis averted.
21:35Now let's roll.
21:37Find Hot Ones hot sauces
21:38at major retailers and grocery stores near you.
21:43Take- London
21:43and stay next.
21:43Bye.
21:43Bye.
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