Daniel Radcliffe on having never seen ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘Breaking Bad’ says he avoids ‘heavy hour-long’ TV

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Daniel Radcliffe known for his performance in the blockbuster hit film series, “Harry Potter” has revealed his preferred type of television series. And they’re not what you’d expect from the 34-year-old.

In a recent interview with Comic Book Resources, the British actor said that he has never seen the highly acclaimed (they’re the best TV series to have ever been created) “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” or even “The Wire,” explaining that he instead prefers to watch cartoons or reality TV.

Radcliffe who has appeared as a guest star on hit animated raunchy comedies like “The Simpsons,” “Robot Chicken,” “BoJack Horseman” and “Rick and Morty,” said he can’t sit through “all the sort of heavy, hour-long stuff.”

“Honestly, I watch cartoons, and I watch reality TV,” Radcliffe told CBR. “I’ve never seen ‘Breaking Bad.’ I’ve never watched ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘The Wire.’ All the sort of heavy, hour-long stuff — just, I can’t.”

Further adding, “I think it does probably in part stem from growing up on ‘The Simpsons’ … I was watching ‘Jeopardy!’ the other night, and one of the contestants credited a ton of his trivia knowledge to ‘The Simpsons.’ That’s absolutely true of me as well. There are so many weird facts and things, from my general knowledge of the world to my sense of humor, [that] were formed in some way by ‘The Simpsons.’”

The reason the “Guns Akimbo” star loves and enjoys animated projects is because he feels that the world of animation would never be able to be recreated into a live-action. To reiterate, what works in the realm of the two-dimensional cinematic universe would never work in it’s real world spin off.

“I think a lot of ‘BoJack Horseman’ would be just too f*****g bleak and sad if it wasn’t a talking horse,” Radcliffe said. “The classic example is Homer strangling Bart in ‘The Simpsons.’ In a live-action [series], that’s just like a horrendous act of child abuse that there’s nothing funny about whatsoever, whereas it’s a running gag in ‘The Simpsons,’ and it’s funny because of what Bart’s neck does.”

Radcliffe continued, “It makes sense that our generation of people that have grown up on The Simpsons would want to continue watching more adult-themed cartoons when they got older.”

In terms of the actor’s work front, he is currently in the cast of the Netflix animated series “Mulligan,” which dropped new episodes this May. While also working in the Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” for which he earned his first ever Tony nomination for best featured actor in a musical.