Daniel Radcliffe, Mariska Hargitay and the Happiest List on Earth

“The plot of the show is I play a character who, when they were young, their mother was dealing with very, very serious depression and mental health issues. And so to in an effort to sort of cheer his mom up, he starts making a list of every brilliant thing that he can think of about the world.”

“There are sort of two levels to the audience participation in this show. There's one sort of, quite a light lift for people where I give people a card that has a number on it and some words. And when I shout out the number, they shout out those words.”

“I have to say, I think there's something incredibly liberating for me being able to do this. I don't get to be in a room in the way I am in the room for the half hour before the show ever. I don't get to walk into a huge crowded room of people with my hat off and no glasses and not trying to, you know, not trying to hide, which is normally my MO when I go through the rest of my life.”

“The feeling was, let's show a collective experience where we're all crying together, we're all laughing together, and sharing in the truth of that, hopefully quite a, worthwhile and maybe even healing experience.”

“The only thing you have to be to make the show work is kind. And if you're kind, the show flies. That's beautiful. It's a really it's a beautiful thing to be on the receiving end of.”

“I am so drawn to themes of healing and renewal. You know, my movie was about our, it's a family film. Right? It's a movie about our collected pain and our the the universality of family trauma. And I have had some profound conversations with people after the film because of what it brought up in them.”

“Like after one performance, a lady, held my hand and confessed that she had been contemplating, suicide until she saw the play. Just hold my hand and like that. And she said she told me the show changed her mind.”