Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Transcript

Transcribed by dlovesdaniel for DanRadcliffe.com.

Conan (introducing tonight's lineup at the start of the show): From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (audience screams) Actually that was one of the ways President Bush pronouced Abu Ghraib last night. (audience laughs) He said, we will release the prisoners of Azkaban, at one point. Daniel Radcliffe's on the show. (audience yells and claps) Yeah. Harry Potter.

Conan: Alright everybody, you all know my next guest as Harry Potter. Well, beginning June fourth you can see him in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Please welcome Daniel Radcliffe. (audience screams and claps)

Conan: Thanks for being here.

Daniel: Thanks. No, it's great. It's amazing.

Conan: Yeah, nice to have you on the show. You know this Harry Potter thing, as you're well aware, an insane phenomenon.

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: All over the world. And I'm just curious, where is it the most intense? I mean, tonight, I mention your name, people go crazy, but is there one area of the world, 'cause you've traveled the whole globe promoting these movies. Where is it the craziest?

Daniel: Probably the most intense was Japan, 'cause they, the whole nation kind of embraces Harry Potter.

Conan: Right.

Daniel: And it's amazing, but like I arrived at the airport and there were three thousand people waiting there.

Conan: That's incredible.

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: Three thousand and are they young people mostly?

Daniel: They're kind of from, like three to thirty. I never remember...

Conan: Right. How does a three year old get to the airport? (Daniel laughs) That's what I'm thinking about. Uh so, so they're very excited and, and they go crazy right?

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: You get in a car, the car takes off, do they, they try and follow you around?

Daniel: We actually had two, umm, girls out there who we actually nicknamed the Six Billion Dollar Women who would literally, they at one point followed us, ran after our car for about six miles. Umm...

Conan: So even if you were doing eighty miles an hour they were still right behind you. (Conan pants)

Daniel: Yeah. (laughs)

Conan: Like Terminator Two, they were just zooming after you.

Daniel: Yeah. They were, they were, they were fast, yeah.

Conan: That's incredible. That must feel amazing, yeah.

Daniel: Yeah, it's amazing.

Conan: I'm huge in the Netherlands, it turns out. (audience laughs)

Daniel: Really?

Conan: Yeah.

Daniel: Cool.

Conan: There'll be as many as nine people in wooden shoes standing outside the plane when I...

Daniel: Pretty...

Conan: Umm, do you have, you've become, you're a big celebrity now, and you have some celebrity crushes, don't you?

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: Yeah. Is it, is this embarassing for you?

Daniel: No, it's cool. I...

Conan: Would you just tell us? Uh, tell us who you like.

Daniel: It's, it's just kind of frightening cause I, I think apparantly you had on the show, I think maybe Brody Dalle and the Distillers? Brody Dalle.

Conan: Definitely. We had her on the show, she's great.

Daniel: Umm, she's, oh. (he gives Conan a wide eyed stare and the audience laughs) She's kind of, she's hot in that kind of I haven't slept in days way. And she's just like, she's...

Conan: I know exactly what you're talking about.

Daniel: (laughs) And she's like...

Conan: There's nothing sexier than a woman who's been sleep deprived. (audience laughs) No, but I know what you mean, she's a great musician but also very...

Daniel: Yeah, she's, awesome band...

Conan: Very sexy, yeah.

Daniel: But I'm kind of scared of saying it cause like, Josh Homme who's like her, her, I think her boyfriend, maybe her husband, I don't know.

Conan: Boyfriend, I'm quite sure.

Daniel: Boyfriend. Who umm...

Conan: From Queens of the Stone Age. Yeah.

Daniel: (at the same time) Queens of the Stone Age. Awesome band.

Conan: Yeah.

Daniel: Umm, and he hit a guy in a bar for talking to her, and so now I'm kinda scared he's going to hunt me down for saying this on TV. But umm...

Conan: I don't think you, I think he's allowed to say, you know, listen to someone flatter his girlfriend on television, that's nice.

Daniel: I hope so.

Conan: If you started trying to talk to her in a bar.

Daniel: He's a big guy.

Conan: Right, he is a big guy.

Tom Arnold: I got your back man.

Daniel: Yeah?

Tom Arnold: Yeah.

Daniel: 'Cause I couldn't take him, really.

Tom Arnold: Yeah, yeah I could.

Daniel: Cool. (laughs)

Conan: He's, nothing like having the Oven Mitt guy have your back, getting in trouble. (audience laughs and cheers) Uh, now of course the Harry Potter movies, they're, they're playing all the time on, on TV, you know, I've noticed.

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: Whenever I turn on cable, it's just, it's usually one of the first things I see is one of the Harry Potter films. Have you caught yourself on TV and is that weird for you?

Daniel: It's, it's completely insane.

Conan: Yeah.

Daniel: It's mad. 'Cause I'm like flipping through the channels and I get to, I once, the one time I did it, I haven't seen the first film at this point in like, probably about three years.

Conan: Right.

Daniel: And I was flipping through the channels on TV and it came on, and I sat there and listened to it and I thought this would be, this would be funny to watch, and I, I swore there was something wrong with sound on our TV, I was like, my voice is so high! I would get up, hitting the TV, and it just sounded like I had inhaled helium before I go on. But I mean so I...

Conan: How old were you at the time you made the movie though?

Daniel: Uh, eleven.

Conan: Eleven.

Daniel: Eleven, yeah.

Conan: I can top that. I once worked, my first job that I ever had and I think I was like fourteen years old and my voice was still really high, and I had to answer phones and people would say, please ma'am, may I speak to the, and I'd be like I'm a man! (audience laughs) Nine years later my voice changed.

Daniel: Wow.

Conan: And now I'm the man you see before you, yeah. (Daniel laughs) Huge in the Netherlands, umm. (audience laughs) Every young actor in the world tried to audition for Harry Potter, thousands and thousands and thousands. What do you think it was that you did that got you the role?

Daniel: Well, I have a kind of series of really freakish things that I do, umm, one of which I...

Conan: Another thing we have in common, yeah.

Daniel: (laughs) Umm, but I think the one that probably clinched, I'm just going to have some water, sorry.

Conan: Sure, that's OK. That's not water. (Daniel laughs) I thought that was Tom Arnold's, I'm sorry. (audience laughs)

Daniel: The one that kind of umm, clinched it was, if I'm going to show everyone something, and I need to, can I come around?

Conan: Yeah, yes, come around, yeah, yeah.

Daniel: I'm just going to...

Conan: Just don't hit that lever.

Daniel: No...

Conan: It causes all kinds of problems. (audience laughs)

Daniel: Basically umm, the thing that I did that kind of clinched umm, the audition, I think, is I can rotate my hand three hundred and sixty degrees.

Conan: What?

Daniel: Umm, I can just turn it...

(Dan puts his hand on the desk, swivels it around with his other hand)

Conan: Eww! Aah! Aah! Wow, look at that!

Daniel: And then it kind of just spins back around like that so... (Dan lets go... audience laughs)

Tom Arnold: Yeah!

Daniel: That's what did it.

Conan: That's an incredible uh...

Daniel: That's the only thing I have.

Conan: Wow. (audience cheers and claps)

Conan: Wow. It's even better when you scream while you're doing it.

Daniel: (laughs) Yeah.

Conan: That adds a great effect. Now uh, can you drive yet?

Daniel: No.

Conan: You can't drive yet?

Daniel: I'm only fourteen.

Conan: You're how old? Fifteen?

Daniel: Fourteen.

Conan: Fourteen.

Daniel: Fourteen.

Audience: Aww.

Conan: Umm, when can you drive? You can drive...

Daniel: (laughs) Thank you!

Conan: Aww! People are going aww! They're going to try and steal you and take you home, and raise you. (Daniel laughs) Uh, you can have a car in two years? Two and a half years?

Daniel: Uh, two and a half years, yeah.

Conan: Two and a half years. Uh, have you thought about what kind of car you're going to get?

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: You have some money in the bank, you can have whatever you want, what are you going to do?

Daniel: I want one of those huge red Cadillacs! (he gives Conan a crazy wide eyed stare)

Conan: Huge red Cadillac?

Daniel: Yeah, they're amazing. (Conan laughs) You can't turn 'em, you have to turn, they're like twenty three feet long, you can't turn 'em, they're impossible to drive.

Conan: So you mean like a 1970's red pimp mobile.

Daniel. Yeah, they're amazing. I like motorbikes too.

Conan: Right.

Daniel: I like, like Harleys...

Conan: Yeah, you could probably have one of those in the backseat, those are such big cars.

Daniel: (laughs) I mean, I got it from, cause I, one of my favorite books and favorite films is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and it's the Great Red Shark, it's amazing. (audience claps)

Conan: Right. Right, right. Those are great books. And so, and so you want to get a big...

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: That's so funny, just think, think of Harry Potter bombing around in this huge gas guzzling... (audience laughs)

Daniel: What I like about it though is it's really inconspicuous. No one would notice, I wouldn't draw attention at all, I like.

Conan: No, not at all. If you drove in certain areas of Miami, no one would notice you. (Daniel laughs) Yeah. Very, very nice. Uh, yeah it was very nice to have you on the show, yeah.

Daniel: It's great.

Conan: And the new movie comes out, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Daniel: Azkaban, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Conan: Azkaban, yeah, there we go. Uh, opens uh, next Friday.

Daniel: Yes.

Conan: So check that out.

Daniel: Yeah.

Conan: Yes indeed. Alright thank you very much for being here Daniel. (audience cheers and claps) Daniel Radcliffe, we'll be right back. John Pizzarelli, stick around.

Conan: Alright folks, that's our show. I do want to thank all my guests and uh (to Dan), you asked if you could pull the "lee-ver" which I thought was really nice. So go ahead, let's see it.

Someone in the audience: Yeah!

(Dan pulls the lever next to Conan's desk, which plays a clip from Walker, Texas Ranger)

Daniel: Thank you very much.

Conan laughs.