See The Real Me

Daniel Radcliffe is featured in the newest issue of Paper Magazine. Daniel is in the magazine to talk about his new  The Cripple of Inishmaan.

In the interview, he talks his character’s disability, living in New York City, social media, and more. Highlights can be found below.

On learning to play a character with a disability: “I worked on the physicality for about three or four months with a voice teacher, who has a very mild form of cerebral palsy, which is what I had chosen to base Billy’s condition on.

It’s definitely one of the challenges of the part, but I feel good about the place I got to. I see Billy as somebody who does not pity himself; he’s very practical. He’s an incredibly strong, dynamic character within his disability.”

On living in New York City: “I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.”

Has anyone seen Daniel on stage yet? What did you think?