Interview by USA Today in promotion of Miracle Workers: Dark Ages (series 2). The show premieres tonight on TBS.
Ducks or owls? Daniel Radcliffe picks his favorite
Update: 14th June 2020. Another photo plus one below.
What are some similarities between your characters Craig (in Season 1) and Chauncley (in Season 2)?
They're both socially inept
but come from completely different places. Craig's social ineptitude is
caused by him being overly analytical and self-aware, whereas Chauncley
has no self-awareness. He starts as someone who's psychotically stupid,
and his journey is one of starting to become a good person by the end.
It's a very different role for me – I've never done anything this broad
before. It's very hard to find a grounded and subtle way of playing
someone who dances with ducks.
Given the medieval setting, did you have to learn how to swordfight or ride horses?
I got out of that, thankfully. When
we were first doing the show, I was like, "I'm definitely going to have
to ride." I can get on a horse and go from point A to point B, but I
don't love it. I also didn't have to do any sort of fighting, because my
character's a coward. Really, the only thing I had to do was called
"duck training," where I'd stand there for 10 minutes, and the (animal
handlers) would be like, "Pick up the duck. Now put it down again. Cool,
need anything else from us?"
Aside from the cast, are there any connective threads between the stories in seasons 1 and 2?
We discovered some as we were going along, but I
don’t even know if they’re intentional. It’s really little things, like a
scene where me and Geraldine’s character end up spreading a map out on a
table and poring over it and working out a plan, which is an echo of
something from the first season, (which was) thematically about finding
the bravery to be yourself. And the second has a more parental theme:
How do we love our parents, and how do we move away from (them)? But
done in the craziest, most heightened context.
You’ve appeared in Broadway shows, independent films and
now TV series in the decade since “Harry Potter.” What was the most
difficult part of making that transition?
There’s a lovely thing, which is that I’m open to
some weirder stuff. Well, maybe other people say it’s weird, but I just
think it’s fun. And weird begets weird, so then you become known for
responding to those scripts and get sent (them). What I had to learn is
that I’m in a position very few actors are in, which is you have
autonomy over your career. And because “Potter” has been very good to me
financially, you can pick and choose some (projects) purely because it
makes you happy.
There was a stage where I thought I should be doing a certain type of
film, and it was a very valuable lesson to learn that, “Oh, I shouldn’t
necessarily do something because it’s the right thing to do on
paper.” I was very worried at the end of “Potter,” because I didn’t know
what the future was going to be or what my life was like without that
thing. But if you told me then that in 10 years, I’d have made films
like “Horns” and “Kill Your Darlings” and “Guns Akimbo” and “Swiss Army
Man,” I’d have bitten your hand off. “Potter” was this amazing start,
and then I had to step back and say, “OK, what do you want your career
to be?”
I spoke to your Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint, who said
he recently re-watched Sorcerer's Stone (released in 2001, when
Radcliffe was just 11 years old). Have you seen any of the
movies lately?
Yeah, I was at the gym on
Thanksgiving and it was just on on a loop on some channel. I came into
the gym and there was a little bit of recognition at the door, but it
settled down and I was like, "OK, cool, cool." And then I get on the
treadmill and look up, and it's (expletive) me in the third film (Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)! It's funny. I don't know if I can
watch them, just because I don't know if I'm ready for that
opioid-level hit of nostalgia. It would be too much of a mixture of
sadness and happiness and embarrassment. But I will watch them again at
some point. It's definitely not something I seek out, though.
Photo taken on 5th December 2019 in New York:
source: usatoday.com
picture source: Robert Deutsch
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