Daniel Radcliffe Doesn’t Want His Son to Know He Played Harry Potter. At Least Not Yet.

Does my son know who Harry Potter is? No, not yet. Somebody gave me a DVD to sign recently, and so it was sitting on our kitchen table for a couple of days, and at one point he was like next to it. And I was just like, “Who’s that?” I’d see if he recognized me on the cover. And he didn’t, which was great. For as long as I can just be his dad and he won’t know me as anything else, I will maintain that for as long as I can. Love reading Dr. Seuss to my son. My favorite overall is probably “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” because it’s the one where he clearly had a theme, an idea for a theme, and then he gives up on it on about Page 5. And just does the wildest, craziest stuff he can think of. And that’s fun. And Jon Klassen’s “The Hat Trilogy.” There’s one with a bear that has had his hat stolen by a rabbit, and it is a revenge thriller for children, and it’s kind of amoral and great. “The Simpsons” is just one of the formative pieces of my personality. Most of the facts I know about either American geography or American culture are probably, or many of them, derived from “The Simpsons.” The reason that I know Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. I think the first time I saw Weird Al was in as being him being referenced in a “Simpsons” episode. “He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.” I came out of “Potter” with an awareness that I was going to be in a position that almost no actors were in at the age I was where you don’t need to do anything other than for the reason that you really, really like it and think it’s going to be fun. In terms of people that I admired, I got to work with Gary Oldman when I was very young. I feel like for most actors you look at that kind of career — people like him, people like Steve Buscemi, who I’ve worked with as well. He pops up in every genre and everything. And you just, when you look at that, to me, you see somebody having fun and enjoying their career.