Daniel Radcliffe is a man of many talents, which he proved yet again Tuesday.
The Horns actor put his rap skills to the test when he performed Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics" on NBC's The Tonight Show. Before taking the stage, however, the 25-year-old Englishman confessed that he's always a big hip-hop fan, "which surprises a lot of people." He was inspired by Eminem years ago. "I think I was the first kid in my class to learn all the words to 'Real Slim Shady,'" Radcliffe recalled. "I've always had kind of an obsession with memorizing complicated, lyrically intricate and fast songs, I guess."
"It's a disease," he joked.
Fallon called "Alphabet Aerobics" one of the "trickiest, fastest songs" he knows. Radcliffe took his jacket off for the impromptu concert. Backed by The Roots, the movie star proved to be a masterful musician.
"Come on!" Fallon said as the actor received a standing ovation. "Daniel Radcliffe!"
Radcliffe doesn't aspire to become a full-time rapper, but he does hope to try something new on the big screen. "I harbor a not-so-secret desire to somehow find a part for me and Dwayne Johnson to play in the same movie. He knows I'm a fan because I've had mutual fan who've dressed him on other films...My initial thought was like a buddy cop movie about two unlikely partners who are forced to work together. This came out of another idea that me and friend were having one night where we were just coming up with bad pun names for films. We decided a buddy cop movie about two cops that are joined over their love of music should be called Siren Song," he told Fallon. "It's not a musical movie!"
"Wouldn't you like to see me and The Rock do that?" he asked.
Harry Potter may be long over, but Radcliffe still knows how to cast a spell on audiences.
When he appeared on The BBC's Graham Norton Show in late 2010, for example, he performed his party trick, which was singing "The Elements" by Radcliffe's personal "hero," musical humorist Tom Lehrer.
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