-Thank you for coming back.
It's so great to see you in person.
Thank you for playing "Cold As Ice."
-Oh, thank you for -- Yeah, thank you for having me.
As always, very excited.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-We've never played that game before.
-I know. I'm honored.
-I don't know if we'll ever play again.
-We'll see. We'll see, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-I have to talk to you about this
because you know I'm the biggest fan of Weird Al Yankovic.
-Yeah, yeah. -He's my favorite.
He was my first concert I ever saw.
-I think that's incredibly cool.
-I love that guy so much.
And you are playing Weird Al in a biopic movie.
-Yes.
-This is -- -It's awesome.
-I mean, how -- I cannot wait for this.
-It's the thing --
I'm rarely excited to see the stuff that I'm in.
I'm very, very excited to see that.
It is -- I mean, you know, it's a fully insane movie.
It's one of the most fun things I've ever done.
And yeah, I don't know when exactly it'll be out --
hopefully later this year --
but, you know, it's one to look forward to.
-How did it come about? Have you ever met Weird Al?
-So, apparently -- 'Cause when they --
When I talked to Al for the first time, I was like,
"I'm immensely flattered
by the idea that you would pick me to play you.
But like, why me?"
You know, I'm mystified, but excited.
And apparently, so -- like, 13, 14 years ago,
I sang a version of a Tom Lehrer song
on "The Graham Norton Show" in the UK.
-Sure. -I sang "The Elements"
next to Colin Farrell and a very bemused Rihanna.
I think he was just like, "Who is this kid,
and why is he singing all of 'The Elements'?"
And I guess Al saw that
and was like, "This guy maybe gets it."
And so picked me to -- yeah.
So I'm very, very lucky. -I love that.
-And now I've gotten to -- you know, I got to have,
like, accordion lessons with Al.
So it's -- I can go to my grave --
-I would start crying thinking about it.
You brought us an awesome photo of you with Al's accordion.
-Yes. So I got lent Al's accordion for the month.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-[ Laughs ] -That is --
That was my last day with the accordion.
I was very sad to be having to say goodbye to it,
'cause he gave me his own accordion
to practice on for the month.
On day two of that, I broke one of the straps.
[ Audience groans ] So immediately --
Yes, that's how I felt.
[ Laughter ]
And then immediately got them replaced and he was --
Again, thankfully, he's, like, the nicest guy.
-Yeah. -If he was furious about it,
he kept it to himself.
-I cannot wait to see that movie.
I'm so excited.
I think the casting is perfect.
I love that you said yes to that.
You obviously have already been part
of one of the biggest movie franchises in the world.
And now fans of yours online want you to play Wolverine.
Have you heard this? -I have heard this.
This is something that has, like, come up
every so often for the last few years.
And every time it comes up, I'm like, "That's not true.
There's nothing behind that."
And everyone's like, "Oh, he said it might be true."
And I'm like, "No, I didn't. I said the opposite of that."
[ Laughter ] -No, no, no.
You said the word "true." That counts.
-And then, like, every so often,
I'll get bored answering the question in a sensible way,
so I'll make a joke, and every time I make a joke,
I'm like, "Why did you do that? That's gonna set --"
So the other day, I was like, "Prove me wrong, Marvel."
And then that has ignited a whole thing.
But yeah, I think it's 'cause there -- like,
Wolverine in the comics is fairly short,
so I think it's people going like,
"Who's a short actor? Him. He can maybe play him."
-That's why. Yeah.
-Yeah, I think so. -Well, yeah.
I mean, I think you would be a fantastic Wolverine.
-That's very kind. Thank you.
I mean, anything that implies
the fleetingest similarity to Hugh Jackman
is incredibly flattering.
So I'm happy with that.
-Yeah. [ Audience cheers ]
I'm so happy you decided to announce it on our show
that you are playing Wolverine.
This is great. -No!
No, it's not. -It's so exciting.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Come back -- [ Laughs ]
Come back when the movie comes out.
-Yeah, okay.
[ Laughter ]
-We had Rupert Grint on the show last week.
-Cool. -He's great. Funny.
We're talking -- And we talked obviously about the reunion.
-Yeah. -The "Harry Potter" reunion.
Was it 20 years?
-Yeah, it was 20 years since the first film.
-It's got to be -- It's got to be exciting
or was it odd, is it emotional
when you meet your cast that you grew up with basically?
-It was all of that.
I mean, it was really -- it was lovely.
It was so nice to see --
some people obviously you've kept in contact with,
and some people you haven't as much.
It was lovely to see them again.
People like the Phelps twins who, you know, when we started,
they were like 14 and I was 11.
And at that age, that's, like, a massive difference.
-Yeah, they're like 80... -Right.
-...and you were 3. -Right.
That's how it felt at the time. -"You're 14?! Oh, my God!"
-And then now, it's just, like, we're all men in our thirties.
Like, it's all so flattened out in a really nice way.
So it was lovely seeing them.
I was also -- I was reminded -- you know,
I was kind of going back like,
I'm very happy to have these memories.
It's amazing.
Also happy it's not my day-to-day anymore.
That is also, like -- it's kind of nice.
-Yeah, you made it through.
-Yeah, yeah. -And you turned out okay.
-And it's nice to be able to like, celebrate it.
-Yeah, exactly.
We were talking backstage, and I said,
do people just yell at you all the time, like,
"Harry Potter!" or whatever?
And you said that people yell, "Elijah Wood."
-I got that one quite recently. [ Laughter ]
So, there's a long-running thing with me and Elijah
getting mistaken for each other.
Originally, "Lord of the Rings" and the first "Potter" film
came out around the same time, and we are both, you know --
the idea of us is very similar.
We are both, like, short actors with blue eyes and very pale.
-"The idea of us."
-Yeah, like, we don't actually look that much alike,
but close enough.
And recently, a guy just was driving past
on the street in New York,
and I was just standing on the corner and he just yelled,
"Hey, Elijah! I love your work!"
And I was just like, "Cool! Thanks, man! Have a good day!"
And in my head, the thought process was like,
"Well, I don't want to ruin his day."
Like, he's had a nice interaction
with Elijah Wood, as far as he's concerned.
Like, why spoil that?
I don't know if he's a fan of me, so just give him that.
-You know, we were looking through old pictures.
We were gonna show pictures of you and Elijah.
And instead, I found something that I think is even cooler.
You signed a photo for someone, an autograph,
and I think this is really your handwriting,
but you can tell me.
And this is so kind of cute.
-Yeah. -Is this your signature?
-This is how I signed autographs
from between the ages of, like, 9 and 10.
-"Magic..." -"Magic rules OK"
with a lightning-bolt exclamation mark.
And it was either you got that or you got "Believe in magic"
or you got "Magic works" from, like, 2000 to 2008 maybe?
-You don't do it anymore?
-You know, I don't do it.
It's less relevant to, like, "Equus" and stuff.
Like, it became "This is weird to write this now."
-Yeah. Yeah.
-But, yeah, that is my terrible handwriting.
What I'm confused about in this is why I have apparently signed
a photo of myself with no one else in it while I am on holiday
on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. -[ Laughs ]
-I don't know who wanted that, was like,
"Can I have an autograph?" "Yes."
"But can I have it of you
in front of the Sydney Opera House on a bridge?"
-In Australia, yeah. -Yeah.
-Well, it's a collector's item now.
-Yeah, apparently.
-'Cause you can't get this anymore.
I want to talk about "The Lost City."
-Yeah. -I'm excited about this movie.
Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum --
both awesome people.
-Yes, they really are.
-Did you call Sandra Bullock "Sandy?"
-It took me so long to get to that point with her
where I's just be like -- -I'm not there.
-I'm not -- I didn't feel like I was there even after months
and she was like, "Really, call me Sandy.
You don't have to call me Sandra."
And then I would say in conversation with my friends,
I'd be telling a story about work,
and I'd be like, "And then Sandy said --"
And they're like, "Oh, Sandy."
[ Laughter ] -Oh, Mr. Big shot.
-Right. It's what she prefers!
I hate informality, as well!
[ Laughter ]
-I would even call her Sandra Bullock.
-I mean, yeah. -I would say her full name.
-It's definitely hard to, like --
Growing up on "Potter," I obviously worked
with a lot of amazing actors.
But I wasn't necessarily familiar
with the filmography of Maggie Smith or Richard Harris
in the way that I grew up watching...Sandy's films.
[ Laughter ] And it was incredibly surreal.
-That's how you say her name now?
Saaandy? -"Saaandy."
-"Hi, Channing. Hello, Saaandy."
[ Laughter ]
But yeah.
-Yeah, no. -One of the nicest human beings.
-And yeah, she's truly amazing.
-How do we set up the film?
-So, it is kind of old fashioned adventure, rom-com movie.
Sandra and Channing play love interests.
She is a romance novelist.
Channing is her cover model.
I am a crazy billionaire who decides to kidnap Sandra
because I think she has the key to finding some treasure.
And it's a great, fun movie.
I feel like I've done it no justice.
-No, that's exactly right. Perfectly done.
Perfectly said.
It's a great popcorn movie. I love it.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock
in "The Lost City."
Take a look at this.
♪♪
-Hello.
-Where am I?
-Um, you're on my plane.
It's nice, isn't it?
The seats are made of mama llama leather.
-Well, I'm getting off your plane.
Unchain me.
-That's your seat belt.
-Did you chloroform me?
People actually do that?
Oh.
Oh! -Oh.
Well, you know, it's a classic for a reason.
-My body feels drunk.
-It will wear off in a bit.
-Come on. That's how you do it.
Daniel Radcliffe, everybody.
"The Lost City" is in select theaters tomorrow
and everywhere March 25th.