The last two years have been the best years of my life. But this year made it the most amazing year because of your support, friendship, love and just being the people you are have given me a reason just to be thankful for it. But three very special people who they know who they are or at least I hope they do. Mean the world to me, they gave me a little more of themselves that they didn’t have to and one watched from afar that I could never thank. But you all are very special to me. I changed a lot because of it. I cut a lot of what I was doing down to a minimum. I got rid of all the facebook pages, got rid of some websites I was maintaining and now I am more happy that I don’t have to do that someone once said the websites were not important and even though that is true. I cannot feel without them I wouldn’t have met such wonderful people. Because of SDR, I’ve become aware that I mean a lot more to society, guess you guys were right. I do have a lot to give and I am gonna do that.

I love you all, have a great year and take care of yourselves out there where ever you are. Cause even though I will be busy, I’ll still be out here watching you.

I wanna thank my very good friend Aty for making SDR a portrait which she drew and painted for us of Dane DeHaan and Daniel Radcliffe. I always admired her artwork. She is very skilled and has become a very good friend. Thank you Aty. You can view the full portrait in the gallery not posting it here for obvious reasons.

Dan-Radcliffe.net is being deleted I am taking my name off the site and closing the flaunt account. Adair, is making a tumblr page for the site however with Flaunt’s policy on updating the site its pretty much useless when its not being updated. So the site goes. It’s been hard to see this site go since taking it over from Michelle but I can no longer do it. Jill never worked on it and Adair can’t maintain it alone. We’ve asked for others to take it over but no one would. It was a stepping stone to learn a lot about Daniel for me, I will miss working on it and the people I worked on it with. To Juliet and Adair, its been great working with you two. <3

With being the most prominent site on the net. I am gonna be making just a few changes I can’t really say what yet. Cause I am still dealing with some issues I need to sort out but once I get everything sorted out. I will list on what’s been changed. I am also thinking of adding some new stuff. No clue as to what yet but I am always coming up with new things so it could be a very good turn out. I know some of you come to the site and you always seem to make me smile when you say this is the best source for any Dan fan and that I am always up to date.

But right now, I am currently slacking off because of a cold. Which I dont really feel doing registrations right now so they are on hold. When I am better I will get to it. But right now, I am just too out of it and I apologize.

On ‘Extras’

Daniel Radcliffe: I get ‘Extras’ almost as much as I get ‘Harry Potter’. I get – because ‘Extras’ is what… It’s generally men, and it’s generally men between 15 and 25, who don’t really want to like come up and gush about Potter, but they do want to say hello, so the way in has become, like, “hey man, loved you on ‘Extras’, that was great.” “Yeah, thank you.” But I loved doing ‘Extras’, that was… It was 7, it was like 7 or 8 years ago now. It was a long – it doesn’t seem that long, but it was actually quite a while ago now.

George Stroumboulopoulos: It’s incredible how, I mean you’re really young now, but how young you were in that. Did you know Ricky? Did Ricky give – Ricky Gervais?

DR: I was telling that story the other day actually. It’s one of the weirdest – it’s the weirdest way I’ve ever got a job, without a doubt. It’s the first time I’ve ever said yes to without reading a script because it was Ricky Gervais. I was in Australia making ‘December Boys,’ and we had been watching the first series of ‘Extras’. And then one of the local PAs, Caroline, took us to her friend’s house, and they had kangaroos and snakes. And kangaroos are – you can’t just have a kangaroo as a pet in Australia, they have to – I think I’m right in saying, it’s very specific – they have to be found, like, abandoned, in their mother’s pouch, at the roadside, right? And then you can raise them.

GS: Reasonable.
[…]

DR: I spent most of the evening watching a snake crawl around a table and bottle-feeding a kangaroo. And then the phone rang, and it was Ricky Gervais, saying “I’d like you to be on ‘Extras’.” And that was how I got that job. And I said yes. My dad literally – I was in the other room, bottle-feeding a kangaroo, and my dad ran through with the phone going, “um, it, it’s Ricky Gervais. Can you talk to him?” And I was like, “well, yeah.” It was a very, very strange moment. And you know I was such a fan of his at that point, I mean I must have watched the English ‘Office’ in its entirety 3 times at least by that point, and just thought he was a genius, and really was very, very excited to work with him. And I have to say what was interesting about working with him was to really see how – Ricky is obviously an incredibly funny guy and really smart and all that – but how much Stephen Merchant is actually like, it’s a completely equal partnership.

GS: Were the Potter production people – were they okay with that character, what you did on ‘Extras’?

DR: Yeah, yeah. They never really – they never really kicked up a fuss about anything. I mean I’m sure there were a few people who were slightly, when ‘Equus’ was announced was a little bit taken aback, but generally speaking, there wasn’t a morality clause in the contract in terms of what I could go off and do, so I don’t think we ever really worried about it too much.

On ‘Kill Your Darlings’

GS: I wonder if your chance at a better product is improved because you had that kind of reckless fun on the set…

DR: I think so. I absolutely think – well I think it depends what you’re making, but I think ‘Kill Your Darlings’ absolutely benefits from the fact that we had to make it in 25 days for no money, running around New York. Like there is an urgency to it and a vitality that you don’t get if you’re, you know, hanging around for 6 hours between set-ups, and waiting for something – that, I think it’s a much better way of making films, and it’s certainly a much, as an actor it’s much easier.

GS: Do you have to learn a different gear when you’re making a film like that?

DR: No, I think I just have to go to my natural gear. I’ve always had this much energy, and I’ve kind of got it to spare, so being on a film set… I remember someone turned round to me on day 18 of ‘Kill Your Darlings’ and said “you must be knackered,” I’m like “no, my last job was 150 days, this is fine.”