Return To The Life You Knew

Daniel Radcliffe recently opened up about returning to the Broadway stage in the production of The Cripple of Inishmaan. Highlights from his interview are below.

On America’s burst of applause when seeing him take the stage: “It’s just something we are so unaccustomed to in England. Obviously, it’s a sign of being very liked and that’s lovely. It’s just something I don’t think I’ll ever get used to.”

On playing a character with a disability: “You’re on dodgy ground a little bit when you’re an able-bodied actor playing a character who lives with a disability. So I want to make it as authentic as I possibly can and by that I didn’t just mean learning the physical, superficial mechanics of a disease and mimicking them. It’s so much more than that and I think it would be very offensive to people to think you could just play a disability as if it’s like putting on a hat.”

On the characters he likes to play: “I like playing weird characters. I can only base things on the type of films I would want to see or the type of stuff that I would want to go to. That’s how I make my decisions.”

You can check out more from Daniel’s interview here. The Cripple of Inishmaan is currently playing at the Cort Theater.