Daniel Radcliffe Admits to Googling Himself and Reading Harry Potter and Draco Fanfiction

Radcliffe revealed some secrets during lie detector tests for ‘Vanity Fair’

Daniel Radcliffe reveals some secrets!

Actor, 34 — together with his We roll happily actors Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez — participated in vanity fairpolygraph test on Tuesday. During group questioning, he admitted to Googling himself, as well as reading fanfiction about his titular character Harry Potter character and villain Draco.

“Do you ever google yourself?” Groff asked Harry Potter star, prompting Radcliffe to reply, “Yes.”

“Oh, Dan, so honest,” Groff replied.

“I mean, no use f——- lying, Judd?” Radcliffe said, referring to the polygraph examiner.

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“Have you ever read a fanfiction about yourself?” Groff then asked. Radcliffe replied once again, “Yes, out loud on the TV.”

When asked about the strangest story he’s read about himself, Radcliffe said: “Obviously I’m aware that Harry and Draco as characters look a lot together. So I read some of that.”

“What is shipping?” Groff asked.

Radcliffe explained that shipping is “like when you want two characters to come together, for the sake of a relationship.”

Daniel Radcliffe took part in Vanity Fair’s lie detector test.

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The actor is best known for his role as Harry Potter in the hit film adaptations of JK Rowling’s popular novels, while Draco Malfoy was played by Tom Felton.

“And this is something I know from a franchise movie that people find funny,” Radcliffe added.

He then went on to say that the strangest story he had ever read about himself was “that I let the SAS walk my dogs”, as well as a story which claimed that Radcliffe had “a special beer brewed for him by monks in a monastery in Belgium .”

He also revealed that there was another story that claimed he’d get his assistant to hold his scripts up to him in a mirror so he could read them while he put on his makeup, “although that doesn’t make any fucking sense because I wouldn’t be able to read mirror writing. ”

“And yes, it’s a long list,” Radcliffe added.

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