In a new interview with Theater Mania, Daniel Radcliffe talks about some of his favorite moments while playing Billy in The Cripple of Inishmaan on Broadway. This week marks his last week of performances for the show, so be sure to get tickets now before he’s gone! Some pieces of the interview may be read below:

Everyone loves inside jokes. What is the best one from your show?

June Watson, who plays Mammy, the drunk Irish mother, has a line, “They are, I suppose.” But June goes and [puts on an older Irish dialect]: “They areeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I suppose.” Offstage, you can hear every single cast member join in and then collapse into laughter. We’ve got so many lines that are like tongue twisters. Every night someone will trip over something [and we’ll laugh].

Why did you choose to return to Broadway in an ensemble piece such as this, as opposed to a star vehicle like Equus?

I guess I didn’t look at it and say, “This is a great part”; I looked at the play and said, “This is a great part in a great play.” I just thought I’d be doing a great play. I didn’t realize at the time that I’d be getting three scenes off in the middle, which was lovely. In How to Succeed, when I wasn’t onstage, I was changing, so it was very busy. It’s very nice to do a play where you do get some time to yourself. And working with such a great ensemble has been really exciting.

Of all the jokes about Billy that get made throughout the course of the play, which one do you personally find funniest?

The funniest joke of the play is actually made about Billy’s mother. He says, “I’ve heard my mother was a beautiful woman,” and the Doctor goes, “No, she was awful ugly. She’d scare a pig.” It’s such an awful and funny line.

If you could talk Rupert Grint and Emma Watson into starring with you in a play or musical, which one would it be?

I’m thinking of things that have one girl and two guys, and the first one was Merrily We Roll Along. Let’s go with that.

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