What music he listens to to help get into character.

If you’re talking about the dream thing,” Radcliffe responded, “Who it would be fun to play and which songs it would be great to sing, then I suppose it would be David Bowie.”

What excites me about music is 99% of the time is the lyrics and I just think, you know, about Eminem particularly and I know it’s like ‘what’s the surprise, another white person saying Eminem is a favorite rapper’ but I just find him amazing.

Harry's darkness is a very specific type of darkness and it's Radiohead's OK Computer or Amnesiac, and it's Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible and Hope of the States, The Lost Riots and it's stuff like that.

Harry's darkness is a very specific type of darkness and it's Radiohead's OK Computer or Amnesiac, and it's Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible and Hope of the States, The Lost Riots and it's stuff like that.

If you asked people what band they associated with Harry Potter, Radiohead wouldn't be the first that sprang to mind, but funnily enough Radiohead's albums could soundtrack the films.

Musing on who he would like to play, Daniel Radcliffe stated that he would love to take the lead role in an Iggy Pop biopic.

There's also a newer Hold Steady song I’ve been listening to a lot called “Entitlement Crew.”

I’ve been listening to a lot of an Australian band called Ball Park Music, especially their song “Struggle Street.”

What’s the last song that you had on repeat? I’ve been listening to a lot of an Australian band called Ball Park Music.

Who is your fave singer? The Libertines, and I met Pete Doherty. He was lovely.

Who is your fave singer? The Libertines, and I met Pete Doherty. He was lovely.

He has brought in his own playlist for the shoot (Black Keys, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, M Ward, Pixies, Hold Steady, Elliott Smith, Ball Park Music) and is chatty and relaxed.

The last track is by Perfume Genius and is called “Hood”. I always use music to prepare for my work, which you can put down to lack of training, but it is very instant, music can take you immediately to a different emotional state and that’s why it is very useful for my job

I wanted to pick a track from Surfer Rosa by the Pixies because that’s my favorite of their albums, because, again, it’s just anarchy. It does whatever it wants.

And it was just like, they were the Sex Pistols of my generation, I think in some ways. They are a much more lyrical band, they’re a much more romantic band than the Sex Pistols, but they do have the same kind of chaotic, anarchic energy. That’s what I love about The Libertines, in all their albums there is a romance about England combined with a realism about it - about how cynical it is, about how negative it can be. But despite all of that, we still love it and are still incredibly proud to be English, despite all the things that are not right in our country.

The next track, again, was quite hard to pick one song off this album, but I went with “EMI” by the Sex Pistols. In my opinion, and I can and will get flack for this I’m sure, but in my opinion they are as important as The Beatles in terms of what they did for British music. My dresser on Potter was a guy called Will Stagel and he got me into punk, starting with the Pistols.

The first track is Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”. The whole Transformer album is so unusual, but in particular “Walk on the Wild Side”. I like the fact that it has kind of become, to me, it is an anthem of rock’n’roll, even though it is sort of the least, in terms of the sound of it, it’s the least rock’n’roll song I can think of that is also the prime example of the genre.

That time he had a religious moment at a music festival "I saw the Arctic Monkeys at the Reading Festival in 2006. It was in that time between when their album actually came out, but after everyone had illegally downloaded their album, and so they were booked in the smallest tent at the festival, because they weren't officially a bigger name, but everyone was going in there to see them. I was in a tent meant for like 5,000 people and there were 20,000 people in there listening to their first album. I won't forget that."

Favorite living musician? Tom Lehrer.

What's your favorite non-living musician? Marc Boland.

What's your favorite band of all time? The Sex Pistols.

What's that last song you listened to on your phone? The Black Keys, The Only One.