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This might be my bakery.

In Vermont, of all places, you know. You guys are supposed to be chill.

Hey, what's going on, everybody? For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and

watching Hot Ones. It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today we're joined by Daniel Radcliffe. His Emmy Award -nominated

work spans everything from intimate indies to billion -dollar franchises,

theater, and beyond.

If you're in New York, catch him on his return to Broadway in Every Brilliant

Thing at the Hudson Theater. And he also stars opposite Tracy Morgan in the NBC

comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which is set to premiere

February 23rd.

Daniel Radcliffe, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me back.

Yeah. What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the gauntlet,

this time outside of the comfort of your own home? Yeah, so I do have to... I'm

coming here today with a story and a recommendation, which is that you need

do, like, exit interviews or catch -up interviews or something, because we did

this five years ago. My girlfriend was in the apartment. I was like, I'm not

going to nail that.

Like, that was fine. It was light. They were hot. But, like, I was all right.

Three hours later, I'm sorry, we're about to leave, but, like...

lasers coming out of my arm and and and and my mouth like it was both ends it

was bad and i was i had been so cocky before that that my girlfriend was

entirely unsympathetic she was just like you did this to yourself and also were

unbearable about how well it had gone so i'm like not giving you that much

sympathy but i was in real i was in a bad way i'm just saying i feel like what

i'll do today

is i'll send a text okay after we're done like when i next go to the bathroom

i'll let you know how it goes because i do feel like that's how these all need

to end

Great. Awesome.

This is very nice.

Yeah, this is very nice. Well done.

Garlic Delight. Yeah, Garlic Delight.

So I'd imagine playing the straight man and a two -hander opposite Tracy Morgan

is an actor's dream in a lot of ways. Was there a day on set or a scene where

you began to really recognize your potential as a comedy duo?

What Tracy can do is unteachable and unlearnable. He is just one of the most

naturally funny human beings I've ever spent time around.

The original pitch was just like, we just think you and Tracy together is a

weird, insane combination, and we like the idea of him being crazy and you

trying to corral him. He is exactly what you expect in that, like...

That was a pleasant introduction.

Okay.

Yes. A little hotter. Still pleasant.

That's the poor man. Not going for the milk yet.

Yeah.

Do you have any, is this really happening moments reflecting back on

experience doing live theater? Like what's the most unforgivable thing

can do in the audience when they're watching a live stage performance?

The most inexplicable piece of, okay, two inexplicable pieces of audience

behavior I once had. One was on Equus, two girls who were on the onstage

seating. There's a scene going on behind me with two other actors and two girls

just start talking to me as me and just being like, Dan, Dan.

Look up here. And I was like, no, I can't, like... And so they, I think,

weren't kicked out, but they moved them from the onstage seating to the not

-onstage seating at the intermission.

And my other favourite audience member was a guy that I was doing a play in the

UK called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

He came in the first act had like a foot -long sandwich Wrapped in tinfoil my

friend had to make a massive speech and he was like unwrapping this loud thing

for them Ate the entire sandwich for the rest of the first act and then went to

sleep and he's front row by the way So we see all of this and he just went to

sleep and we like a guy like what is it? What do you come to here then came back

in for the second act completely attentive leapt up at the end led to

ovation

You had a good time? You were with it? Like, yeah.

You know, some people are weird. And you never know. Like, that's the thing.

Sometimes the people you see who look stone -faced and having a horrible time,

that's just how people take stuff in. Sometimes you see them afterwards and

they're like, oh my God, we loved it. And you're like, okay, well, maybe.

White hot mustard sauce from Quentin's.

Hell yeah.

Oh.

You like it? This is very tasty.

Yeah. I knew you would.

That's good.

That's like, yeah, hot English mustard with more of a kick.

Great. Well done, Quentin.

Is there a moment that you can identify as pivotal in developing your own real

perspective as an actor versus, you know, being young and feeling like your

was to hit your marks and say your lines? Yeah, I still think that's my

job, by the way. I think most actors really underrate hitting your mark and

saying your lines.

But there was a thing that happened towards the, like, during the end of

when I was, like, an older teenager.

Well, you're in the most self -conscious phase of your life, and I hated my face

and it doing anything.

And so I was like, okay, well, if I just kind of go stoic and don't really move

my face, then it can't do it. Nothing can go wrong.

I think that came out of real self -consciousness. And self -consciousness

the enemy of acting in any shape or form.

When I was doing my first musical on Broadway, I learned very quickly that

actually whatever natural weirdness I have from my face or from expressiveness

or my physicality, you've got to lean into it.

Whatever, you know.

Any weirdness there is to be lent into rather than avoided. I feel like that's

big lesson through my life, generally.

Got a bit of a tingle happening, so just permanently now.

Yeah.

That's why I should have stopped.

We'd both, we'd talked about it, we'd had the moment. I didn't need to take

extra bite.

That's a mistake.

Again, I think that's deceptive, because I can, like... It's nice.

I could eat more, but I'm not going to. You're right. It's deceptive. It comes

in with that peach up front, so you feel like you're on the clear.

And then it starts to sizzle here at the end. It's amazing how long something

can carry on going after it's not in your mouth anymore.

So you've played a character with horns on his head, you've played a character

with guns for hands, and you've played a literal flatulent corpse. Yeah.

For an actor, which of those was most challenging from just a pure comfort

perspective? Oh, from a pure comfort perspective, that's interesting.

The most challenging one was probably horns on that. Not because of the actual

horns, but generally the level of prosthetics I had on that movie was a

There was a full body prosthetic by the end.

I hate prosthetics.

That's the only thing that I think could get me to turn down a job of a script I

like. And Swiss Army Man was the hardest one to figure out how to do the...

character that's a singular kind of performance right because it's not

dead but you're not a zombie and so you kind of go like what what is that what

does that look like i really didn't know before i turned up for work and it was

totally putting myself in the hands of the daniels the directors and like just

asking them what they needed of me well great performance thank you i love that

i'm taking your mind off the heat great yeah yeah thank you with a compliment

that's very nice of you but

The bad news is... I'm going back in.

Tropical Amarillo. The storm clears for just a second, and then the clouds roll

back in. I feel like the word sweet is doing a lot of work there.

I'm going to not take another bite. That's the smart move. Yeah. Learning

the mistakes along the way.

Is it true that you spent nearly 42 hours filming underwater for The Goblet

Fire? If so, do you remember your drowning signal, and did you have any

calls? Um, I only once, uh, didn't, there was a time when we were training

it where I, um, we were doing like mask clearing exercises, like very basic

things, learning to dive. And you, you breathe, you take a deep breath and you

take the regulator out. And then you, when you put it back in, you've got to

keep that breath because you go to blow the air out. Um, and I remember I took

the thing out once and I was like.

didn't breathe didn't don't have any breath to clear this when i get back on

i put it back in and uh yeah i i i was like like god wishes get me out of

here that's my drowning signal um and they uh and i got up and the stunt

coordinator looked me and just in the way that only he could a lovely man

greg powell he just looked me went well you won't make that mistake again and i

was like no absolutely right um but yeah so we filmed for uh six weeks we were i

think we i've heard It quoted that we averaged five seconds of usable footage

per day.

That was one of the things that you go like, yeah, I'll never, never do

something like this again.

All right, up next, homegrown hell. Homegrown hell. I mean, really, you're

you're trying to hurt people.

As soon as you swallow it, it lets you know that you've made a terrible

I am going to have another bite, though. Then I will, too.

Okay, sorry.

Let's party.

Okay, great.

I've heard you say that you base roles on originality above all else.

What stands out as, like, the most bizarre or unique pitch you've said yes

One of the worst ideas I've ever heard to... During Potter, somebody came to us

and I think asked... Like, they wanted to cast all three of us, me, Emma, and

Rupert, as in a remake of Wizard of Oz, where Emma was Dorothy.

I can't remember what Rupert was, and I just remember that I was going to be the

lion, but also he knew karate.

I was like a karate -kicking, cowardly lion.

And I remember, I was like 14 or 15, and I was like, I don't know a lot about

the world, but this is a bad idea.

This should not be made.

I really have a bone to pick with this one's name, because Nirvana is just

that's a nice thing.

Right? But you know what? You haven't tried the sauce yet. True.

That is true. Maybe. Let's not judge a sauce by its label, as they say.

Oh, no. Yeah, I do feel enlightened.

You're right.

Oh, fuck. Yeah.

Second bite. Huge mistake.

Many such cases.

Oh, yeah.

No. Oh, yeah. But you're in it, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're an actor.

You've got to immerse yourself in the experience, you know? Mm -hmm.

This definitely falls into the category of, this is a test, but it is a test I

enjoy.

When you're like, okay, I want to see, like, I remember this one last time. I

was like, this is bad. It tastes bad.

Sorry, manufacturers.

It's all good.

This one.

At the beginning, it's like, this is a nice taste. And I am now at the point

where I'm like, it's really letting me know that I'm in for a bad time later.

I'm going for the milk.

It's that time.

So, watching the Harry Potter 20th anniversary retrospective a few years

something that really stuck with me was the sheer number of classically trained

veteran actors who appeared in the eight films, from Maggie Smith to Gary

Oldman, Imelda Sutton, that's just to name a few.

Without overthinking about it, what stands out as the best acting you got to

witness firsthand?

I mean, Imelda, the thing that I always love actors that make you look easy, and

all of those guys like, you know, Gary or Michael Gambon particularly, Michael

Gambon, mate you know obviously rest in peace like the incredible man um he

would you can swear on the show yeah he fucked around all the time like he would

never stop like until the moment until action had been said sometimes he would

be like trying to make me laugh or do so i like actors who don't take it some

actors love to like dress the whole process up in mystique and being an

and it's all like michael gambon would you get to set and he'd be like what's

the shot

And you'd be like, oh, the camera's here, Michael, so you're there in front

it, but you're looking that way. And he'd say, oh, what is this, B -O -H -N

-R? I was like, sorry, what's that? He's a back of head, no acting required.

He's like, yes, yes it is.

And when we were doing the sixth film, me and him were, like, doing the final

sequence, and we were, like, in this boat. I can't remember the details, but,

like, we're in this little boat going over to this island surrounded by...

bad stuff and um and uh he'd be like what's this uh ttiab i was like what two

twats in a boat yes um so like he and i like emelda same thing like emelda was

like not not around like but emelda would be chatting to everybody about

anything and could talk to anyone about anything and then when action gets there

she's like locked in and so good and

Yeah, I mean, it's the people who can do the work without making you constantly

aware of how hard they're working are always the people that seem the coolest.

Ah, it's the bomb.

Hello again.

I'm taking that one bite while I'm walking away.

And this one, if you'll recall, is immediate, you know? Like, the second

start to swallow is when it tries to... Yeah.

Wow. You can really track that one, where it is in your body.

You can really just find it out there now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the whole

down your digestive system.

If you recall... Wow.

Can you break down, step by step, how to make a fool's gold sandwich?

Ooh.

I literally had a speech about this, didn't I?

You take...

One entire loaf. Cut it in half.

Hollow out both sides.

Layer one half with an entire jar of peanut butter and the other half with an

entire jar of jam.

And then you stuff it with a pound of crispy bacon.

It's really delicious. I mean, Elvis liked them for a reason, you know, and

didn't die hungry.

This is really sticking with me. This is just like, yeah, never leave my lips.

Wow. But I have to say...

You're very eloquent in the answers, you know? No matter what you're going

through, still very eloquent in the answers. Thank you very much. I know

you're fighting against. The walls are closing in over here.

A little bit. And when you get a second to think about it, a second to breathe,

the pain, it hits.

Yeah. But then when the adrenaline spike of action hits. Right.

I'm ready. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, not touching that one again.

Well, why do you do this, guys? Why do you have a nuclear bomb on your bottle?

I think we just learned why. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Wow, this doesn't tell me where to stay at that level. I need to aware.

We're here, aren't we?

This one, Smoke Serrano, Squash Reaper X.

Okay.

Mm -hmm.

Butterfly Bakery of Vermont?

This is made by a bakery?

In Vermont, of all places, you know? You guys are supposed to be chill.

There's a lot of contradictions in this thought. But I will say, after the last

one... It's kind of impossible to know which one's which at this point.

I don't know what this bad effect is from. It could be latent.

Yeah.

I think I prefer the taste of that one, though.

To the bomb. The bomb exists to fuck you up.

You've learned our secrets.

So you seem like someone who's really in love with the whole process of making a

film, not just the light, camera, and action of it all. Is there a role on a

film set that maybe flies under the radar but you think is

important to the final product? Like, what's the most underrated role on a

set? Nobody knows the assistant director's department exists.

Nobody, like, A .D. We refer to it as A .D.

And they are what, they run everything.

And I feel like there are some, like, if you see a movie about movies, often the

director is having action. Generally speaking on set, they don't. It's the

they reach out to action. The second AD does the schedule.

The third AD or the second second is, like, running the set, trying to make

that the actors haven't wandered off somewhere.

Or, like, you know, the AD department is the lifeblood of any film set.

Focus puller, for anyone who doesn't know, like, as the actors.

distance to or whatever your focus of the scene is changes in in relation to

where the camera is focus pullers are having to make tiny adjustments to make

sure you stay in focus i i think it's probably gotten marginally easier since

we're not dealing with that since things are digital now but it's still like a

job that and then you know if you're doing a really hard thing and they're

oh it was great sorry there was a tiny buzz though everyone's like oh you

like an actor can forget a line a thousand times everyone's like it's okay

you're doing something so difficult

And then, and a focus puller will, like, drop one time and everyone's like, what

are you doing?

Yeah, so there's a huge imbalance in those ones.

All right, dude. All right, here we go, man.

Wait, what are you doing?

Do I have to do this? I mean, if you're doing it, I'm going to do it.

It's one of my pet peeves about being on set is, like...

actors getting annoyed, like if the boom comes into frame for a second, and like

actors being annoyed with technical mistakes from the crew, when no one's

allowed to fuck up as much as actors.

Yeah. And then I would just, you just put it on the board. You just put it a

little bit to the side, okay. Yeah.

And then that way you can dip it and just have a little more control because

can avalanche on you. All right.

There's a big one as well. All right, good. All right.

Cheers. Cheers. Thank you for this. What a run. Mm -hmm.

And with that, oh, fuck.

Yeah.

It's fine. Then it gets to the back of your mouth, you know. Oh, no.

The wings of death are behind us. And to close things out, you know, last time

you were on the show.

This is hard to believe, but that fateful day, more than five years ago,

in season 13 with the season 13 lineup, and you close things out by ranking the

sauces from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least. Here we

are in season 29 with a whole new lineup.

I'm wondering if we can run it back.

Can you rearrange the lineup from your favorite sauces to your least favorite?

Okay. This is definitely favorite.

Just reverse the order entirely.

You know, I did the Nirvana and these ones in terms of, like, one that's hot,

but... Nirvana surprised you. Nirvana surprised me. I actually, like, ended up

enjoying it. I think more the type of heat than the actual taste, but it was,

like, a heat that was both challenging, but fun.

And I'm swept by you two.

And these two. There you go.

Sorry, the bomb.

You exist for a reason, but it's not a fun reason.

Once again in last place, and look at you, Daniel Radcliffe, taking on the

of death, living to tell the tale, now for a second time, and I am very much

looking forward to that text follow -up in a couple hours. Now there's nothing

left to do but roll out the red carpet for you. This camera, this camera, this

camera. Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

So, um...

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins comes out on February 23rd. Yes, I got

right. I've been asking you all day. It comes out on February 23rd at 8pm on

NBC. Two episodes back -to -back, available the next day on Peacock.

And also, I'm doing a play at the Hudson Theatre called Every Brilliant Thing.

Hopefully, it will be unlike any other play you've kind of seen.

Come see it.

Thank you very much, Dave.

Thank you, mate. That was really fun.

You can kind of... If you're asking me the questions that I always get asked,

then I can kind of answer them on autopilot, whereas, like, having to

stop and think while you're doing that... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Walls closing in on you. It makes for something more interesting.

Laser's coming out of my heart.

People think Hot Ones is chaos, but this table runs on precision.

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Bill, we have a situation.

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Crisis averted.

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