Daniel Radcliffe might be a popular child actor, but his own son is unaware of his stardom and had a very apt question. The Harry Potter alum recently opened up about his toddler’s close call with learning that his father is famous. He welcomed his first child with his partner, actress Erin Darke, in 2023.
Daniel Radcliffe says his 3-year-old son has no idea that he’s famous
The English actor, who is currently busy with his interactive Broadway play, Every Brilliant Thing, shared that he was watching the Winter Olympics with his family when a commercial for the play came up. Consequently, his son, who turned three years old in April, saw him on TV and curiously asked if that was really his father.
“I had walked out of the room, and suddenly the ad for the show came up, and he’s never seen anything I’ve done or been aware of any of that stuff,” Daniel Radcliffe explained to PEOPLE. “He just goes, with the tone of voice that was like, ‘I’m not crazy right?’ He just goes, ‘Dada?’ Then he was like, ‘Did he leave?’ because he thought because I left the room that I had then suddenly appeared on the TV.”
The Weird: The Al Yankovic Story star further shared that explaining his job to his son is difficult. He said, “You know your job is a bulls*** job when you can’t describe it to a child. As an actor. You know you can explain policeman and fireman and doctor and stuff like that. But when you get to acting, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we tell stories, you know, like your books. We sort of act out your stories.’ He’s truly so far away from having a concept of what I do, and I’m going to keep him in the dark as long as possible.”
Notably, Erin Darke and Daniel Radcliffe first met while working on Kill Your Darlings in 2012. As of writing, the couple has kept their son out of the spotlight and kept his details private, including his name.
