Daniel Radcliffe & 'KILL YOUR DARLINGS' Cast Share A-List Advice

We are so happy to have you all here. Talking emotional maturity. Let's go down the line just first of all, emotional cuz I think there's an age that you don't mature past. What would be yours?

I'm 16.

Um, probably like 11.

Oh, really? Oh, you're really going young.

Yep.

I mean, I I wouldn't be much older than 11. I was actually going to say younger. I was going to say like seven or eight.

Say it. Yeah, seven or eight. Say it. Yeah, put it out there. Really?

Yeah, Probably.

Well, I think I'm four.

You guys must have had a lot of fun on set together then. Oh my gosh. I can't even imagine. So, I read something. So, uh, I read something about an actor date. You said, I think you said this about you two. I think you two had to do a screen test together. Just sort of like a chemistry. I've never been heard of I think John, our director, already called it an actor date. An actor date. I've never heard it referred to in those terms before.

No. I mean, it kind of is in a sense. It's almost like speed dating. Let's let's have 10 minutes and let's see if we have chemistry.

Yeah, I mean, I I guess. It was very I think often um, you know, when when Dane came in and auditioned like he he was amazing. It was not only did he kind of look extremely like Lucille Carr, but he also, you know, gave a great performance. And John and I were incredibly excited. And then in terms of chemistry, I think what people often mean by chemistry is just sort of being interested in each other and like off-set, like spending a bit of time and getting to know one another. And and, you know, on a film like this, you're shooting very fast, a lot of very intense scenes. You you tend to get to know each other quite well.

And don't you think, do you think that would be great good in life though too? Because it's like somebody else decides whether or not you have chemistry.

Well, so so you are you suggesting some sort of business venture where you you go on people's dates for them? Or with them?

No, it would be fantastic because think about it. I'm not always the best judge of who's good for me. It would be kind of good to have somebody else decide.

Yeah. It's not going to go anywhere.

Yeah. Have you ever watched Have you ever watched Millionaire Matchmaker? That's basically that, though. Except that she didn't make the dates.

Yeah.

Do you watch Millionaire Matchmaker?

I have watched Millionaire Matchmaker. Yeah.

In New York City, is there a different shooting there because I would imagine, depending on where you're shooting, you know, certain cities you would go and there'd be like people they're not used to seeing actors. But in New York City, it's almost like move out of my way. We're we got we got somewhere to go. You guys are probably shooting more city than me.

Um, yeah. Well, New York's a great place to make a movie, honestly. Um, I mean, this film, again, like we didn't have a lot of money, so we couldn't block off like an entire block. We could really only block off like 10 feet of the sidewalk. You know? So we weren't really in the way so much. And uh, you know, I think uh you know, it's a city that welcomes uh the film community certainly uh lately. Like so much stuff shoots there now. And it's a really great place to work.

So speaking of having fun at college, we kind of have a game for you guys about the college life. Anyone go to college? Nobody. Here? Great. We're all in a group. Okay. So we're going to do a hypothetical, if you were in college, okay?

Well, you went to a kind of school.

Kind of school. Yeah. There you go. Yes, you did, didn't you? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. That's the same thing. So you went you went to a school. Okay. I went to a here we go. Question one. College life, what social group were you did you belong to? Were you more you can't say the theater group. That's out. Okay. Are you more like the prepster, the jock, the hipster, the intellectual, the goth? Which one were you? Michael?

There was there was um, sort of um, adjacent to the main cafeteria, they had what was called the friends room. Uh, it was a Quaker school. Yeah. And it was really like the no friends room. And I I ate in there.

That was like the loser's lounge?

I know. Crazy, right?

That sounds wild.

I know. Crazy, right?

It sounds like a crazy college experience.

Yep.

What about you, Dane?

Um, I don't know. I mean, I went to an art school, uh so it's hard not to say like the theater kid because We were all theater kids.

And weren't the theater kids were there like the jocks, the, you know, were there the more

There were so many jocks. It was insane. How many jocks?

So, that was school. All right. Uh, no. There were no jocks. There were no frat boys. An art and football, they just don't go together. somehow. We had no sports teams, you know.

And how about your hypothetical? Which would you have belonged to?

Um, Quaker, same as Michael.

You'd be in the lounge together hanging out. Okay. Which would be more awkward or which was more awkward? Co-ed bathrooms or having a really awful roommate, which you had in the film. Your roommate was heinous.

Oh, yeah, it was. Yeah. No. I I I think having a really awful roommate would got to suck cuz there's no getting away from that ever.

There's no getting out of the co-ed bathroom either. Maybe it's worse for a girl than for a guy.

Tickling.

Yeah.

going to say that's not that doesn't hold the same fears. I don't think so. There's no fears like, wait, I have to go to the bathroom again. Yeah. Oh man. I don't really have to go. So everybody across the board, the really awful roommate. Did either of you have an awful roommate situation?

I think I might have been the awful roommate.

How so?

Well, I remember one time waking up with my roommate pinching my nose so I'd stop snoring.

I guess that makes him the awful roommate. Yeah. He was trying to kill you. This is not this is not good. Okay, taking a test. What would be your style? Are you studying the week before? Cramming the night before, pulling an all-nighter? Look at what that you're doing this. I yeah, I got to keep this the only way I can keep straight. Or are you just looking on someone's page the day of the test?

Wow. I was never good enough at school that I could like afford to not work for long periods of time. So I had to try and put work in if I wanted to be average.

You're just trying to get by.

I had to study to get anywhere.

Yeah. Uh, I I like might cram the night before or I just might let myself fail the test.

Yeah, I definitely pulled some all-nighters.

You did? Yeah. You were the last minute. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

I mean, I I aspired to be number one, but there were times where I fell back to number two.

Right. Right. And the old yeah. Come here. Those are your options. And the old um, you know, the doorknob tie trick, the sock on the doorknob. Ever have

Oh, that means somebody's having sex in the room.

Oh, well, I I meant kissing, but if you want to just put that out there then, yeah. We're kissing in the room. I don't know, Some call it experience. You went to a Quaker school. I don't know. Maybe that's what you were doing.

We're sharing our inner light.

Any naughty moments that you can share? With Quakers? With Quakers? Any Quaker naughty moments?

Uh, you know, the the school was really comprised of only 18% Quakers, so it's hard to say. Uh The more the more like secular side of Quakerism pervaded that because you know, people who were interested in consensus. But, sure. I mean, yeah, there were there were naughty. I mean, you know, it's college.

Okay, and and moving on, moving on. A-list advice. You guys are all such A-listers in this business. To somebody starting out.

Uh, I I don't know. I mean, just uh, I don't know what advice it would be. Just like enjoy your job. You're lucky to be doing it cuz there's millions of people out there that would kill to be.

Uh, yeah, gosh. I mean, just, you know, make sure you're doing it for all the right reasons. And, um, if that's the case, then like go at it hard, you know?

Yeah. And if and if uh, no one's giving you a chance to do it, find a way to do it on your own. Find a way to do it with uh, other people who are like-minded and, you know, get something going that you initiate, or generate.

And last but not least, I think this is a coming-of-age story and you sort of start out not knowing you're this Columbia student. And you sort of like explore a different side of yourself, find a different part side of yourself. Did you guys ever have a moment young when you were young and said, when I grow up, I want to be this?

I mean, I I remember even when I started, I wasn't sure it was what I wanted to be doing. And there was a moment when I was about 14 when I was like, yeah, no, this is this is what I want to do. And I I think it was, you know, getting to work with people like uh Gary Oldman and David Thewlis at that age and and just seeing what uh getting excited by what they did with their performances, yeah.

I um, yeah, I wanted to be a professional basketball player but I wasn't tall enough, couldn't really go to my right and wasn't really a very good shooter.

That could be a problem for being a pro basketball player.

Just just a few things. Just a few things.

Well, thank you all so much for coming in.

Thank you very much. This was a real pleasure.

You too. Are you gonna give us a Super Bowl prediction before we go out? Aren't you a football fan?

Uh, yeah. I mean, I uh, I think probably I don't I'll probably say two teams that are in the same conference now, so they might not be able to both get there. I'm not sure if I'm getting it right, but I would say Saints Broncos.

There you go. He's put it out there. Saints Broncos. Yeah.