It takes rather more than a cliche Harry Potter pun to get amusing out of Daniel Radcliffe.

The previous Boy Who Lived has spent the previous 25 years listening to wizard puns, quips, and riddles, so it's no shock he has such a excessive bar. However throughout a current go to to Late Night with Seth Meyers, Radcliffe revealed that somebody managed to interrupt by with a strong one-liner.

"It's very uncommon that I expertise a Harry Potter joke within the wild that makes me actually giggle," the actor instructed Seth Meyers on Monday night time's present. "Not as a result of they're unhealthy, simply because I've heard all of them! It needs to be actually good to make me giggle."

He went on to elucidate that in his prior go to to the late-night present, Meyers was planning to ask him a query about his son, whom he and companion Erin Darke welcomed in 2023. "I don't say his identify on TV," Radcliffe identified.

Leaping in, Meyers stated he was backstage with producers when the joke was made.

"I used to be like, 'Inform me how previous Daniel's youngster is,'" he recalled. "They usually had been like, 'Two years previous however [Daniel] by no means says his identify publicly. After which my producer Kevin Miller stated, 'Is it Voldemort?'"

Nonetheless impressed by the quip, Radcliffe stated, "It's actually good. It's a extremely good joke."

"Clearly you're the viewers for it," Meyers identified.

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The Monday night time look additionally noticed Radcliffe reunited together with his Merrily We Roll Alongside costars Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez to advertise the stay recording of the musical slated to reach in theaters subsequent month. To the delight of musical theater followers all over the place, the Tony-winning manufacturing was filmed stay throughout its 2024 stage run. This additionally signifies that the three leads have now had the possibility to benefit from the present as viewers members — an expertise that Radcliffe discovered a bit painful.

"Dan was in a ball, not wanting to look at himself," Mendez instructed Meyers of attending the premiere screening.

Radcliffe didn't deny it, admitting that he all the time struggles to look at himself onscreen.

"I began watching it and I used to be like, 'Oh god,' however then I watch these guys and I'm like, 'Oh, that's good,'" he recalled. "It was blended for me. If there may very well be a lower made from all the things I've ever achieved with out me in it, I might love watching that."

However Meyers was fast to show a flaw in that plan: "They are saying the Potter movies will not be nice with out Potter," he quipped.

"I imply, I urge to vary," Radcliffe laughed. "I feel there's lots of people performing some actually good work."

Although Radcliffe in all probability received't be revisiting his Harry Potter films anytime quickly, he’ll quickly have the possibility to see the magic unfold with a brand new younger star main the way in which. 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin has been tapped to star in HBO's collection adaptation of the bestselling novels.

To this point, Radcliffe has made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of getting concerned or showing within the new challenge and has spent the previous few years distancing himself from controversial collection creator J.Okay. Rowling, whose transphobic rhetoric he has repeatedly condemned.

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Even so, the previous youngster star nonetheless made an effort to achieve out to McLaughlin forward of the younger actor taking up the coveted position.

"I wrote to Dominic and I despatched him a letter, and he despatched me a really candy be aware again," Radcliffe final week revealed to Good Morning America, explaining that he instructed the child, "I hope you’ve the most effective time, and a fair higher time than I did. I had a good time, however I hope you’ve a fair higher one."

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