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Hey everybody, I'm Daniel Radcliffe and I'm here to do a Wired Autocomplete interview.

Do I tear this off?

Yeah, okay.

What is Daniel Radcliffe's favourite Harry Potter?

I mean, I love the last one, but I also really love the fifth, which is not a lot of people's favourite, I kind of realise.

I love it because of the relationship of Harry and Sirius and you get a lot of Gary Oldman in that movie.

That was my favourite one, probably to film as well, we had a really, really good time making that one, so five or seven part two.

What country is Daniel Radcliffe from?

Oh, really?

People are still asking that.

Cool.

I'm from England.

There's not really much to say in that, but I find it flattering that maybe you've heard me do an American accent

and maybe that's why you thought I wasn't British.

I'm gonna assume that that's why this question was being asked and flatter myself in the process.

What song did Daniel Radcliffe rap?

It's a song called Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious.

I am not a naturally cool person, and when I was given the opportunity to perform that with the roots backing me up the whole time,

I was just like, well, I will never get an opportunity to do anything this cool ever again.

So as nervous as I was about it, I kind of felt like I had to grab it.

So yeah, Alphabet Aerobics.

The original is better.

What's Daniel Radcliffe's Hogwarts house?

Gryffindor.

Come on.

What is Daniel Radcliffe's zodiac sign?

I believe I'm on the cusp of Cancer and Leo, but I don't particularly believe in it.

Thank you.

Is Daniel Radcliffe on social media?

No. It's a very quick answer for you.

I just know that if I were on Twitter, I would be the kind of person that gets into fights.

If you are talking to somebody on social media who is claiming to be me, feel free to go and give them .

Is Daniel Radcliffe a Lions fan?

Yes, I actually am.

This is something that amazes people about me.

I am very much split loyalties between a New York and Detroit American sports teams.

My girlfriend is from Flint, just outside Detroit, and we are a very big Red Wings house.

Is Daniel Radcliffe's leg a lefty?

No, I don't think so.

I think I'm just very uncoordinated with both feet.

is daniel radcliffe the new wolverine yeah i'm there's there's gonna be a new wolverine movie in

which uh it starts off with hugh jackman being put into a hot wash

and then when he comes out it's me

so yes i'm very happy to announce that here is daniel radcliffe

and elijah wood related i mean should really be r

but okay we're not related i have met elijah um once

he came out to the harry potter set i'm told also

he's been mistaken for me um i am mistaken for him

very often i had a makeup artist on one of my last jobs telling me

that i had been in a movie with vin diesel

that she'd sort of just seen the trailer for away with

you why is daniel radcliffe in new zealand um i'm not

i was last year though um a good question i was filming a film called guns akimbo,

which is a crazy action movie, fable, weird comedy thing.

I play a guy who, after a series of pretty horrible events, wakes up one morning to discover that he has been surgically attached to a pair of guns.

The moment that I knew I loved that script was about 10 pages in, where there is a scene of him trying to go to the toilet very,

very carefully with guns for hands.

And that was the moment that I was like yes good I'm in I want to do this film.

Why did Daniel Radcliffe become an actor?

Luck.

Yeah I was very much just got lucky

and was kind of in the right place at the right time and then fell into something that I loved.

You know when people talk about child actors and all

that stuff I think the thing that makes me incredibly lucky is that I loved what I was doing.

Why did Daniel Radcliffe have long hair?

I assume you're talking about Frankenstein.

I had hair extensions for that.

I recommend not doing that if you can avoid it.

I've been told I looked a little bit like a mini Snape.

So, you know, make of that what you will.

Why Daniel Radcliffe wears the same jacket every day?

For six months when I was doing a play, I wore the same jacket every day because I realized that

if it looked like I was coming out of the theater in the same jacket

and same pair of jeans every night the paparazzi looked like they were getting photos all from the same night

when you have an opportunity to like annoy the paparazzi

or just like win a tiny petty victory over them that's fun

where where do does Daniel Radcliffe live now I am split between London

and New York um with majority of the time in London

I'm very I'm best of both worlds where did Daniel Radcliffe to go to high school.

I was.

affiliated with a school called City of London.

It was great.

They were very, very supportive of me doing Potter and really helpful, but to all intents and purposes, I went to high school on set.

Where is Daniel Radcliffe from?

Again, I'm from England.

At the moment, part of Europe, but you know.

Where did Daniel Radcliffe meet his girlfriend?

We met on the set of Kill Your Darlings.

Our characters in the film meet and flirt with each other, and the director kind of got us to improvise, and we had just met

so there is this weirdly cool sweet record of us meeting for the first time

and flirting yes bye does daniel radcliffe come from the uk yes does daniel radcliffe have a son no

i don't um as of yet at time of recording does daniel radcliffe have tattoos again no not at time of recording.

I really want tattoos, and I love them on other people, but every time I think about getting one in my head,

the voices of all my makeup artist friends come into my head being like, screw you, you think we want to come in half an hour earlier to cover your tattoos before you do a topless scene?

Like, we don't, so thanks very much.

Does Daniel Ackler sing?

Yes!

I can carry a tune.

I did a Broadway musical, and so I know what it is when people can like really sing, and I'm not like at that level

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but i can hold a not too challenging tune without embarrassing

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myself totally does daniel radcliffe like emma watson yes we got me rupert and emma

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and all the young cast got on very very well on

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the films i think there is a thing where kind of

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everyone wants us to be best friends outside of the franchise there's always going to be a recognition

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that only really the three of us have been through

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that very specific thing and i think that's going to sort of um join us forever Does Daniel Radcliffe like Rupert Grinch?

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C above.

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Okay.

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And yes is the answer.

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Obviously, I love Rupert.

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Did Daniel Radcliffe, past tense now, did Daniel Radcliffe go to college?

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No. I dropped out, I guess is what you would say.

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I feel like a lot of universities to find out what you want to do, and I very much knew what I wanted, or at least the field that I wanted to be in.

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For me, I thought it would be a sideways step from what I wanted to do.

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Did Daniel Radcliffe play Moaning Myrtle?

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No!

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Most of these questions I can be like, okay, I see where this has come from.

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That one, less so.

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That is an actress called Shirley Henderson, and we are not the same human being.

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What did Daniel Radcliffe study?

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History, religion and philosophy, and English literature.

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Did Daniel Radcliffe won an Oscar?

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I mean, again, I've got certain problems with some of the tenses that are being used in these verbs, But no, I very much not won an Oscar.

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I don't know what that would even have been for.

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What Daniel Radcliffe is...

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What is Daniel?

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What is Daniel Radcliffe?

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This is a complicated question.

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Daniel Radcliffe is mostly water and carbon.

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What is Daniel Radcliffe's age?

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29 now.

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It depends when you're watching this.

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I might be 30.

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I might be 31 or 32.

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The internet's forever.

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I won't be younger than 29 though, that I can guarantee.

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What was Daniel Radcliffe's childhood like?

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Surprisingly normal, I think.

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If a happy childhood is one where you are healthy and having fun, then I had a really happy childhood.

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It was in a very different situation than what most people are in.

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I think Orson Welles said working on a film set is like being given access to the world's biggest toy box, and that remains true.

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What links Daniel Radcliffe and Viggo Mortensen?

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Does this person think I'm Elijah Wood?

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What was Daniel Radcliffe's first movie?

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My first movie was a film called The Tailor of Panama.

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I played the son of Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis, and Pierce Brosnan is also in that movie, and he was so nice because I must have annoyed the sh out of him.

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Last card.

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How tall is Daniel Radcliffe in feet?

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5 .5.

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I'd probably get up to 5 .6 if I'm wearing a little heel or some platforms.

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How to draw Daniel Radcliffe step by step.

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I mean, I've no idea.

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I mean, I'd imagine work it around the eyes.

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That's if you just draw two big, spooky -looking eyes, then you're sort of halfway there.

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How Daniel Radcliffe was discovered.

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There is the story, which is true, but not the whole story, where I went to the theater with my mom and dad one night.

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The producer of Harry Potter was sitting in the row in front of us.

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The sort of truth is a little more boring than

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that in that they had already asked me to audition by that point.

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At the time, my mom and dad said no to me auditioning because at the time the deal was to be filmed, to film seven films and for them to all be filmed in LA.

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And they just said, no, that's far too big a disruption to his life.

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And then yeah, when the deal changed to two films and set in London.

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And then we had that like chance meeting with the producer at the theater.

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Then my parents were like, maybe fate is trying to tell us something.

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How to be Daniel Radcliffe.

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You have to be conceived like 30 years ago and born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.

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Work on your English accent and don't get too tall.

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You be there.

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Thank you very much.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Daniel Radcliffe Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: daniel, radcliffe, film. This video has 168 sentences and 1879 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:20. The speaker talks fast, about 182 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 30 of its 168 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
potter noun	/ˈpɑtɚ/	One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
theater noun	/ˈθi(ə)tɚ/	A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
jacket noun	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
tattoo noun	/tæˈtuː/	An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
producer noun	/pɹəˈdjuːsə/	An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
discover verb	/dɪˈskʌvə/	To find or learn something for the first time.
tune noun	/tjuːn/	A melody.
accent noun	/ækˈsɛnt/	A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to…
tense noun	/tɛns/	The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
audition noun	/ɑˈdɪʃən/	A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
flirt verb	/flɚt/	To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
naturally adverb	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	In a natural manner.
complicated adjective	/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/	Difficult or convoluted.
recognition noun	/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/	The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).
carefully adverb	/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/	With care; attentively, circumspectly.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
drop out verb		To leave (school, a race, etc.) prematurely and voluntarily.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get up to verb		To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Do I tear this off?
It's a very quick answer for you.
No, I don't think so.
I think I'm just very uncoordinated with both feet.
It depends when you're watching this.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being asked · was given · being put
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've heard · have met · he's been mistaken
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	fifth, which is · story, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 38 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, extension /ɪkˈstɛnʃən/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like potter, theater, jacket.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?