Daniel Radcliffe

You don't have to be funny.

You don't have to be clever.

If you are those things, that's a great bonus.

The only thing you have to be to make the show work is kind.

And if you're kind, the show flies.

It's a beautiful thing to be on the receiving end of.

Yeah, I mean, there is something about trying to model the behavior of somebody who has been through something very traumatic and has dealt with depression, talking about it from a place of now being okay or have certainly, you know, have...

have worked on themselves enough to be able to talk about it and laugh and see the funny side even in these dark moments that I think there's something kind of hopefully healing about it.

I think that's the beauty of the play is that those things do sit alongside each other and that there is hopefully something really cathartic hopefully in this show.

I don't think there's anybody that could get to 36 years old without having either felt that kind of profound sadness themselves or known people who have experienced that.

And actually, in some ways, the helplessness of not being able to lift someone that you love out of their depression is just as hard as being depressed yourself in a lot of ways.

It's always very hard for me to figure out

how much of what I have felt in my life is directly because of fame or without it.

I've only ever lived this one way, so I can't separate where what's inherent within me is separate from the facts of my life.

There's a line in the show which says, one of the brilliant things on the list is reading something which articulates exactly how you feel about something but lack the words to express yourself.

Whenever you do find something like that, that says something about the world that you would like to have said yourself but would never have been smart enough or brilliant enough to, so there's this, there's Swiss Army Man, there's a couple of things that I've done that truly are that to me.

And this is one of them.

there's a kind of existentialism about the show, which is that, like, you know, maybe there's no inherent meaning in life, but the meaning we pick up along the way about where we find joy and where we find connection and love, that that is the meaning that we create in it ourselves, is something that I think I believe.

Yeah, exactly.

Absolutely.