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(#19) He's Incredibly Honest In Interviews
During an interview with Variety, Radcliffe and his long-time girlfriend, Erin Darke, discussed their interactions with tabloid paparazzi. According to Darke, most of the photos the tabloids take are of them getting coffee or going to the grocery store. "Dan is not the most exciting celebrity," she explained.
And Radcliffe agreed. "I'm really not," he said. "I’ve bored the paparazzi out of following me."
This was never clearer (or cleverer) than when Radcliffe wore the same outfit for several months while he was appearing in the play Equus in 2007. This effectively made tabloid photos of him unusable. As he explained later that year:
I would wear the same outfit every single time with different T-shirts underneath but I would wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take photos for six months but it would look like the same day. They became un-publishable, which was hilarious because there's nothing better than seeing the paparazzi get really frustrated.
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(#18) He Still Feels Confused About How To Use Email
In an interview with GQ, it was revealed Radcliffe once cold emailed the interviewer to ask him a sports question, not realizing that he just blew his personal email cover. Drew Magary revealed, "Radcliffe once cold e-mailed me a football question for my job over at Deadspin, and when I asked if it was REALLY him, he replied, 'Um...yeah...kind of forgot my name was included in the e-mail. I'm really sh*t with technology and will probably change that now.'"
Oops! But how does a mistake like that happen? Radcliffe blames Gmail for giving him the option to type his name.
I had no idea that when you sign up to Gmail, if you type in your name into your account, that's how it comes up when you e-mail everybody. And I was like, Oh, sh*t—now he's gonna think I'm trying to garner attention.
Damn you, Gmail!
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(#6) He Acts Very Chill About His Wealth
After spending a decade as Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe amassed a fortune of £74m, so he doesn't really need to do anything other than count it and throw it at people. But because he's the best, he just ignores it, as he told the Belfast Telegraph: "I don't really do anything with my money. I'm very grateful for it, because having money means you don't have to worry about it, which is a very lovely freedom to have. It also gives me immense freedom, career-wise."
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(#13) Daniel Radcliffe Cares About Being Socially Conscious
Rather than pretend he knows everything about everything, the Swiss Army Man admitted to an interviewer that, until he read Jennifer Lawrence's post in the Lenny newsletter about the pay gap in Hollywood, he never even considered it.
I’m incredibly glad [gender equality] has come up because I had just f*cking naively thought this was not an issue anymore because how can this still be happening? The thing I can’t help but think is: ‘Who? Who’s doing that? What guy is sitting in a studio somewhere thinking, ‘Let’s f*ck the girls out of some money?’ I feel like there’s such a wealth of amazing actresses in the world right now, and we’ve got to start writing better parts for them and paying them equally.
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(#7) The Man Loves To Write Poetry - A Lot Of It
As if you didn't already love Daniel Radcliffe enough, did you know he's been secretly publishing poetry under a pen name since he was 16? Don't you love him even more? Are you figuring out how to drop references to Daniil Kharms into your next run in with the ex-wizard?
In an interview with Elle, he explained that he wrote more poetry in his late teens: "I was writing poetry more consistently when I was 16 to 19 or 20. In that period I would have written a lot of love poems. I have none that I want to see in print on the Internet forever." Sure you were Danny, sure you were.
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(#3) Long-Distance Relationships Are His Thing
A lot of guys are weird about being in a long-distance relationship. They need constant validation, and they're super insecure the moment they can't physically see their significant other, but not Daniel Radcliffe. Maybe it has something to do with spending 12 hours a day with cameras pointed at him, but who can really say. He's given multiple interviews where he talks about how cool it is to be in a long-distance relationship.
My girlfriend [actress Erin Darke, 30] and I hop back and forth, so we’re constantly saying goodbye but looking forward to seeing each other. It’s quite a romantic state to be in." And if that weren't enough to make you think he's pretty cool, his thoughts on why it's actually pretty easy to date someone across the world nowadays are very weird but also true: "I always think to myself, If we were alive 100 years ago we'd be getting one letter a year. It'd have to survive assassination attempts to get there.
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