Daniel wanted to know the, er, facts before he started his last role

Daniel Radcliffe is currently playing a fact-checker on stage in Broadway’s The Lifespan of Fact, and it’s been revealed the extent to which he prepared for the role.

You see, he became a fact-checker himself, to really immerse himself in the news room.

What a time to be alive – we’re doing the same thing right now! So much immersion…

Anyway, the 29-year-old headed to The New Yorker’s offices to call people up and verify details in the publication’s articles – and after voicing his surprise (and happiness at being able to confirm with show producers) the editors really do have covers of their mag spread over the walls, he was set to work.


It’s ‘Dan from the New Yorker’! (Picture: WireImage)

Just because the lad is one of the most famous faces around right now, don’t think he was given the easy treatment – no, he still had someone managing him and merely introduced himself over the phone as ‘Dan from The New Yorker’.



Before launching into his first assignment, he told the publication: ‘I’m more nervous about this than I am about going onstage tonight.’

The account then described in extremely vivid detail ‘Dan from The New Yorker’ checking a review of a restaurant – his ‘pencil trembling’.

After noting everything from how the grasshopper was ‘toasted’ and their aesthetic was more ‘Mexican than Californian’ he exhaled and hung up: ‘I just fact-checked a f***ing article!

‘Nothing I do today will be harder than that.’

In a rather humour turn of events, though, Daniel noted it was ‘very meta’ he was then called by the very same fact-checking department he’d interned in earlier to verify the details of their piece.

According to the publication, everything checked out…apart from the fact he’d been drinking a cappuccino, not a late, and had been to Mexico.

The more you know. Everything checked out, except that he had been drinking a cappuccino, not a latte, and he has, in point of fact, been to Mexico.

The more you know, in fact.

Got a showbiz story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you.

MORE: Tom Felton took a picture with Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe and the internet is having a moment

MORE: JK Rowling is loving the Harry Potter theories right now, confirms another one