I know many of you won’t give a sh-t, but for my money, this is the funniest story of the week. It’s not even a story, really, it’s just a tiny little clip from an interview MTV News did with Daniel Radcliffe, probably to promote Harry Potter. I’ve said this before – I love Daniel Radcliffe, and it has nothing to do with the Harry Potter films, which I’ve never gotten into (apologies, Potterheads). My love for Daniel stems from his wonderful self-possession, his intelligence and dry wit, and his unapologetic liberal politics, which he often discusses without fear or ignorance. I can’t help it – I love hearing a young cutie with a posh voice talk passionately about economics and gay rights. It makes my panties flutter.
Unfortunately, Daniel is not talking politics in this new interview. He’s talking about music, and he’s just as cute and as funny as can be. I’ve been sitting here giggling over this one quote in particular. The MTV dude asks Daniel is he’s into pop music, and then name-checks Justin Bieber. Daniel reaction? “”I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I’d never heard it before. Is it big in England yet?” That last question is still cracking me up. I can’t stop laughing. “Is IT big in England yet?” Like he’s still not sure what gender The Bieb is, so to be on the safe side, he’s just going with It. The Bieb should only be referred to as It from now on. Here’s the video… it’s even better with his accent:
Yes, he likes Gaga, sort of. He thinks “she’s kind of amazing… She’s really got a voice. My god. Not my kind of music, particularly, but she can really sing.” I’m surprised Daniel isn’t more into Gaga – you know how tight he is with the gay community, and I’m not saying that as a double entendre at all. I just mean that Daniel is a passionate supporter of gay rights and gay people in total (he even admits that he‘s “campy” and might have “gayface”). And the gays love Gaga, ergo Daniel should love Gaga. His gays really need to get on this, stat.
Daniel also discussed his love of singing karoke: “I love karaoke… I am one of those people who says, ‘No, no, I can’t, I couldn’t possibly, no I won’t… All right, give me the mic!’ And then I’m elbowing other people out of the way to get to the stage. I sang Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog. That, and then I did Feeling Good by Muse. That was my proudest moment, because I actually did that rather well. I was really pleased, because I can sing. I’ve been having singing lessons for two and a half years. I’m not amazing, obviously, but I’m all right.” He also said would “consider” a part on Glee, which he calls an “amazing show…and I’d obviously be honored to be asked. I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet. They’ve got standards like Kristin Chenoweth!” Seriously? Straight British guys know who Kristin Chenoweth is? Oh, maybe he knows her from his Broadway days? That could be it.
It.
Header: Daniel Radcliffe at the Tonys on June 13, 2010. Credit: RAM/Fame.
I’m with Daniel!
haha don’t worry Kaiser, Potterheads aren’t crazy like Twi-hards. We’ll just tell you it’s a shame because you’re missing out. I feel no need to attack you personally or otherwise because you do not share the same taste in books or movies as I do. Twi-hards – take note.
what is a daniel radcliffe? did he play an elf in lord of the rings
He is SO annoying. I find him to be extremely arrogant. Like he’ll be anyone other than Harry Potter. Ugh.
That was funny..
it really was..
Yeah, and Daniel is soooo manly.
Hahahahahahahahaha!!! This makes my day before it ever really started.
*lol* Poor Dan. Now he will feel the wrath of the Bieber fans.
Give Dan a break. He lives in England, not the U.S., and they just finished or have almost finished filming the last Harry Potter movie. The guy has been very busy.
Love him. Lot of self-effacing humor, which I love. And I’m sorry, I loathe “the Bieb.” Not a big fan of Anne Murray look-a-likes pretending to be all gangsta.
LOL – “It” won’t like this one bit. Let the barbs through the media begin!
I love him so much.Harry Potter isnt my thing but I still love him. Go Daniel! He seems so normal and pleasant
Bieber is a little boy with helmet hair that went out with the Beatles in the 60’s. I’m surprised hair that doesn’t move is considered attractive on anyone.
I really don’t know anything else about him as know one I know, adults, children or anyone particularly cares for him but I understand he has a following. I just don’t know what age group it is.
Not a fan of his really. Plus, he’s only like 2 ft tall. I’m a bit prejudiced against short men. Can’t help it.
I have a serious request.
Kaiser, can you please stop referring to ‘the gays’ as if we are all one and the same. We are not. You did it yesterday as well in a post on J-Lo, that ‘the gays’ will buy her music, and now you do it again, that ‘the gays’ love Gaga.
Gays are all very different from each other, we all have a different taste levels and interests, just like you straight people.
Also, just because Daniel is a supporter of gay rights, does that immediately mean that he has to like Gaga. Because ‘the gays’ like her? What logic is that?
I am sure you are not homophobic Kaiser. And I am not angry at you. It just annoys me that I am being placed in corners were I don’t want to be.
Perhaps use “her gay fans” in future?
On Daniel and It: that was awesome!
I feel like a child rapist for saying that I would hit that. I just find him magnetizing now that he’s legal. I say that as a person who has proudly never read a Potter book or seen a film.
Totally in accordance about the pubescent lesbian. It took me (a trained vocalist) hearing him twice (by accident) to realize that I was listening to a boy whose balls have not dropped. It actually doesn’t surprise me that he’s not a fan of Gaga. He strikes me as the type to go for something for musically substantive. Can totally see him liking Muse.
I love Daniel too. Maybe when he said “it,” he meant the latest song? If not…???
He actually doesn’t have a ‘posh’ accent per se. Those ‘r’s that he puts at the end of some words… tsk tsk. Still very cute. 😉
It makes me laff that JB choses to dress like a soft butch lesbian. Doesn’t he know how rediculous he looks?
I don’t think he’s so crass as to have said that intentionally. I think he meant “Bieber Fever”.
@ Bella Mosley – Teenaged girls are into Bieber – that’s his fanbase. The moms like him because he’s safe.
I hate It so it was a great read this morning, a smart start.
Well The Bieb is not a boy either, that said when he’ll/ sorry it’ll change voice the fun gonna start XD I can’t wait.
Daniel just won a fan.
Yeah, I think he means “it” as in the song.
Isn’t Bieber 16? Shouldn’t his voice have changed by now?
Can’t stand the Bieb and what’s with all these teenyboppers throwing up the peace sign “gang style”.
Let’s move it along IT.
@ bite me: washes your mouth out with orlando bloom’s porny little mustache.
Ha ha ha! This made my day!!
I didn’t bother reading the story because I think just the headline is stupid enough. Why do people attack Justin Bieber and then turn around and criticize people like Miley Cyrus for being too sexy too son? Justin Bieber is a cute kid that is clean-cut and so far a good role model for really young kids. Why is it that people criticize these young kids that are good role models only to criticize them later when they try to sex it up when they get more “mature”?? It seems they can’t win either way. It also seems people will criticize them no matter which path they take.
Good lord, since when do we need teenyboppers with tragic hairstyles to be “role models” for our children?
He could have been referring to Bieber’s music when he said, “Is it big in England yet?” I doubt seriously he would refer to the Bieber kid as ‘it’, no matter how much he might be joking about his music, especially considering the press scrutiny Radcliffe has had since he was – what? – ten years old.
for the love of god,he has glitter on his eyebrows on the first pic..why??
LOVE Daniel!!
i didn’t think it was possibly to love him more but i do. and it’s not just the accent. It. That’s what we’ve all been saying for awhile.
He is fantastic. =)
PS you really should check out the Potter series. It really is fantastic, and has more rabid fans than Twilight-we’re just polite, and run into Twilight screenings yelling “Team Cedric!”
Hahahaha, awesome. Because seriously, look at that photo of Bieber. Punk doesn’t even have hair on his arms yet. He’s smooth as the bonnet of a Porche, a pedo’s dream come true, I’m sure. I wouldn’t be shocked to hear that he either has a hormone problem or this parents are shooting him up with something to keep him from hitting puberty so that he’ll stay their little hairless money-making machine for years and years to come.
(interesting note: I had to edit this post because TWICE I wrote “her/she” instead of “his/him”)
Oh and @waldemar – Get your panties out of that knot.
Not glitter on his eyebrows, sweat.
He’s always got a weird look, he’s very pale, he’s got these monster eyebrows and red rings around his eyes. He reminds me of the end of Moulin Rouge when Nicole Kidman was dying of consumption.
He’s cute and funny, but seriously, outside of theater, I’m not sure I see a big acting career for him. There isn’t much call for a 5’5″ leading man out there. And yes, I ADORE the Potter movies and books, so I’m biased for him, not against. 🙂
Oh Kaiser!! That was fantastic! I haven’t laughed this hard in ages! I mean I was laughing so hard, My lungs and heart were kissing my stomach, liver and kidneys through my diaphragm! I mean He is genuinely non-plussed by ‘it’….I can’t help thinking that if ‘Its’ voice hasn’t broken, maybe other things haven’t dropped either and ergo middle aged ladies with bieber fever should i don’t know feel sort of ashamed? Oh Daniel….that was hillarious…’It’ hahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Different from Bieber, Daniel is one of those teens whose sudden success blew cr*p into his head.
LOL!!! Love you danrad.
Isn’t a castralto an “it”?
LOL this guy is so gay. Come out already! Anyways, that was too funny! And yeah, I hate Bieber because of his hair. Yukkk.
He sounds sooooo smart.
And not a bit ignorant or condescending.
yeah sorry i kinda liked Daniel, but i forsee him turning into an asshole pretty soon.
Hey, that shit is funny.
I remember when I first saw Hanson. I used to think they were girls.
I don’t think Daniel meant it as offending Bieber, I think he really didn’t even know. Like me, there will be people I can’t tell if they are male or female and I don’t know whether to say thank you ma’am or sir…and that doesn’t make me a stupid heartless bitch just for that…some people, it’s really hard to tell. But if a celebrity says it torwards someone, even if they were genuine and not so sure, then the Bieber fans get all butt hurt or the HP haters get all whatever. Some boys are really handsome and just have that pretty boy face, some may think it’s a girl who is a lesbian, (now in days with so many kids and what not coming out and being more open about their sexuality and boys are dressing like girls or girls are dressing like boys). Even some girls have a butch face and people think it’s a boy and that’s only the truth and the reality of it. So there are the people who choose to say it in a mean way towards someone who is gay or someone will say it genuinely. Like little Shilo for example, people are all talking shit about that poor little girl, calling her a lesbian, based on how she is dressed, right? Just as I thought.
Pllleeeaaassseee! As if there is a celeb whose voice sounds like a girl more than Radcliffes! Could he be more femmme!
LAWL.
I gotta agree with Daniel.
I have this sickening feel that sometimes in the near future the hoax hat is Justin Bieber will be revealed. And thousands of little girls will learn that they were in love with and obsessed with a female who was pretending to be male. It’s gonna be a hot mess when someone exposes that Justin is really female.
@Kim – What?! You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. Every since he hit puberty, Daniel Radcliffe’s voice has been pretty normal for a dude. There’s really nothing feminine about him. WTF, Kim, really?
I think I’ve just fallen in love…I giggle non-stop, replay the clip, then giggle some more.
I’m with Gatsbygal & Bizzy.
Sounds like beaver fever to me. Dan is really refreshing. Sure he’s HP, but I’d shoot myself too if that’s the only typecasted roll I’ll ever play. Drake and Beaver needs to go back to canada. Everytime I listen to drake, I think “that Aubrey Drake Graham from Degrassi shouldn’t be autotuned singing! he’s from Degrassi!”
oh look at me. I typecasted him. DARNIT!
Daniel, you’re awsome
He’s just so excited that he finally gets to be older than someone. Listen, I don’t have a dog in this fight. Heck, I’m a little chagrined that the place where I’ve spent many happy and fruitful times has morphed from ‘Home of the Stratford Festival’ to ‘Birthplace of The Bieb’. Still, this performance of Radcliffe’s seems like a planned opportunity to make a really contrived comment in order to curry favour with the type of fan that equates not being up to date with entertainment trends as being the same thing as sophistication or timeless discernment. H.Po’s heard of Justin Bieber, you think the be-wigged one became such a huge star in Australia while completely bypassing the UK? I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Radcliffe wanted us to think that he’s oblivious to the existence of this kid because he was too engrossed in his re-reading of Finnegan’s Wake. Nope.
Even the English have to earn their condecension.
I. Love. Daniel. Radcliffe. 🙂
HAHAHA that is the best story of the day. Couldn’t agree with you more Dan!
Aww, the video won’t play at my work! Have to wait a whole 3 hours to get home to watch it, but it sounds funny. Although I doubt it could top those videos of It walking into two separate glass doors!
@ Jo Mama Besser
Haha. I enjoyed your assessment. I disagree, however, that Daniel is being calculating in earnest. For some time now he has proven himself to be self-possessed, erudite, and precociously mature. I have no doubt that some craftsmanship has had a hand in his image. But he consistently articlulates himself with a fluidity and authenticity that suggests that he is expresing himself truthfully. With that said, he is an actor…..
@ snowball
I forsee work for him outside of the theater. He won’t be a leading man, however, in the Hollywood sense which is a credit to him. I imagine that a lot of the work that he will get will be in British television and independent film. I seem him being a Joseph Gordon Levitt or an Elijah Wood type.
@ViktoryGin:
Fair enough. I was really only referring to this one comment, but I might not have been clear enough in communicating that.
I remember you once stating that you were a trained vocalist–likely soon after the little Battle of the Bel Canto Superstars exchanged we shared. I’ve had my share or it, but it’s not my main instrument. Ever torture any pianists with faulty timing or tuning, or flick desperately difficult accompaniments at your hapless co-performer with nothing near enough advance warning? Not that that has ever happened to me. Unrelated: what’s your stance on mixed martial arts?
Holy typos!
My mind was on Poulenc, I was ‘In Country’.
justin really needs to do something about that hair. i think i read somewhere he has a hormonal disorder that he’s not grown according to the “normal” charts for males. i think he’s even shorter than daniel radcliffe.
well, i guess we’ll find out when justin hits 18 or 21 or 30. lolz.
i think daniel is bisexual. he’s pretty much cool with anything, very liberal and doesn’t limit himself to stereotypes or expectations. he’s just so petite, lolz.