--- title: Donald Trump Gave Young Daniel Radcliffe Bizarre Advice description: Daniel Radcliffe appeared on Monday's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers and told the story of the time he met Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-21T15:09:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:33.866Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: This Is the Bizarre Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe og:description: "To this day I can't even relate to that level of confidence" og:url: https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Bizarre Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe twitter:description: "To this day I can't even relate to that level of confidence" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is the Bizarre Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 21, 2016 3:09 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 21, 2016 3:09 PM UTC After playing [Harry Potter](http://time.com/4215336/jk-rowling-harry-potter-cursed-child-book/) for more than a decade, [Daniel Radcliffe](http://time.com/4137021/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-audition/) seems to know his way around a talk show. But during his appearance on Monday’s episode of [_Late Night with Seth Meyers_](http://time.com/4370367/donald-trump-banned-late-night-seth-meyers/), the 26-year-old actor revealed that he wasn’t nearly as composed before his first live TV interview. “It was my first time in New York and I was doing _The_ _Today Show_,” he told the host. “And I was really nervous and 11 years old and had never been on live TV before and just terrified.” Luckily, there was another guest there to give him some advice, presumptive Republican presidential nominee [Donald Trump](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2015-runner-up-donald-trump/). “So they marched me over to him and I remember having some idea of who he was but not really a full concept,” Radcliffe said. “He was like, ‘How are you?,’ and I was like, ‘I’m really nervous, I don’t know what I’m going to talk about on the show.’ And he just said, ‘You just tell them you met Mr. Trump.'” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/"},"headline":"This Is the Bizarre Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe","datePublished":"2016-06-21T15:09:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:33.866Z","description":"\"To this day I can't even relate to that level of confidence\"","url":"https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Seth Meyers","Late Night with Seth Meyers","TV","Donald Trump","daniel radcliffe"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4376352/daniel-radcliffe-donald-trump-advice-seth-meyers/","name":"This Is the Bizarre Advice Donald Trump Gave 11-Year-Old Daniel Radcliffe"}}]}] ```