Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe closed out Season 13 of the popular chicken wing–eating webseries Hot Ones with a memorable interview and an even more memorable dedication to completing the entire Hot Ones gauntlet. While he chomped on a series of increasingly spicy wings, host Sean Evans peppered him with questions about his work on indie films, Broadway, and of course Harry Potter.
Some of the tidbits Radcliffe gave while munching through the pain include a behind-the-scenes story about a masturbating monkey on the Hogwarts set, some special effects insights into his farting corpse role in Swiss Army Man, and why he’s never had any social media whatsoever.
“I would love to say there’s some incredibly thought out intellectual reason for this, because I considered getting a Twitter at one point and I 100 percent know that if I did you would all be waking up to stories of ‘Dan Radcliffe gets into fight with random person on Twitter,’” Radcliffe said. He further explained that he used to read comments about himself when he was younger and acknowledges that was a bad habit he ought not repeat on social media.
Toward the end of the episode, Evanc congratulated Radcliffe on his performance, saying “amongst your fellow Brits, you are close to the top” of the spice tolerance scale.
“You’re saying for an English person you can take your spice, which is a backhanded compliment but I’ll take it,” Radcliffe replied.
