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Video: Daniel Radcliffe Explains How Time Has Enriched His MERRILY Performance
May 10, 2024
In this video, watch as Tony nominee Daniel Radcliffe chats more about his co-stars, why Merrily We Roll Along means so much to him, and so much more.
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What does this nomination mean to you, Daniel
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I'm so proud of the show that we've made and of my work in it in a way that I'm not always
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And I'm definitely, you know, it is really thrilling to be nominated and to be included
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with Jonathan and Lindsay in this. Yeah, it's really, it's been an amazing run in this show and we've had the best time and
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this feels like a really exciting celebratory way to sort of finish it out
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What's made this show so special? You've worked on so many incredible projects from the first time you came here at Equus
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into How to Succeed and Inishmont, everything you've done here. But what's made this so special
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I mean, so the material, what we're being able to do Sondheim is just, I mean, it's
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a gift as an actor to get to do. There's so much to mine in it constantly in the songs, in the book, in everything that
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makes it a real treat. And honestly, the shows you just listed, all of them are fantastic plays and have fantastic scripts
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There is something about the emotional connection in combination with the material itself and
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with Jonathan and Lindsay and how much I love them that means that I don't have to work
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to feel any of the things my character should be feeling. I just have to look at Jonathan or look at Lindsay, who are two of the most emotionally
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available actors that I've ever worked with and I get everything I need
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And to be this far into a run and not feeling like you have to struggle for the authenticity
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of it is really special. You're singing Sondheim. I know, it's crazy
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It's really, I've told this story a lot recently, but my mum and dad played show
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tunes in the car growing up and that's what I listened to as road trip music
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And yeah, so to be sitting here and to be going to a show every night and singing those
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songs is just so special and yeah, I would not have predicted it
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So it's really cool. You always come back to the theater, which I love
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You were a movie star first, but you always come home. Yeah
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I, it's thrilling to do it. It's so, there's something so exciting about doing a show in front of a live audience every
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night and having that kind of relationship with an audience. Also I think it's made me a better actor
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Every time I've gone on stage, I come away from that with a better understanding of myself
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as an actor and this show particularly is no exception to that
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Like I think I've, yeah, and also I've, this show occupies a very personal space in my
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life as well. I've had a kid over this course of the show and you know, so I definitely, I've grown
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as a person in this show a lot and it's improved the performance that I think I'm giving now
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compared to when we started. So I was going to ask you, being a dad, how it's changed everything for you. Yeah
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I mean it's definitely just, you know, I'm a much more emotionally connected person than
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I was before. Not by choice, but just by the fact that the kid has forced me to, I just like cry all
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the time in a nice way. It's like with happiness or sometimes tiredness
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But yeah, I mean it has changed everything. It definitely changes, you know, the six days a week, eight shows a week is definitely
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the two show days particularly. I miss him because he's like, I feel like he's growing up so fast that every time I
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leave for two shows, I come back and he's like a different human being
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But you know, it's great and we're only, yeah, we're 10 weeks away from the end so I'll be very excited to be a dad for a bit when we're done
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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