# Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395 "2006-07-28T14:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/21 "2006-07-28T20:51:26Z")
The big surprise? A lightning bolt scar on his wang. ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_Loves_Co)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/22 "2006-07-28T20:59:12Z")
I think the point people are making about it being stage makeup is _not_ that he was wearing makeup for the sake of the photographers, but that he’d just come off stage from something. And there’s a difference between “Stage Makeup” and “Extra Heavy Makeup To Wear on the Red Carpet”. Stage Makeup is designed to hold up under hot lights with /odd/ colors, and to allow the actors features to be seen in the back row. The latter is generally pretty much just darker/heavier makeup used to counter the natural over-wash of light from harsh sources. Both are “dramatic”, but it’s the former that makes the wearer look like a clown under normal light. Have you all seriously never seen a _stage_ actor fresh off the stage? Not even, say, in high school or something? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/23 "2006-07-28T21:08:22Z")
Just wanted to drop in and say… mmm… Jenny Agutter, topless… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/24 "2006-07-28T22:23:57Z")
For some reason, this was the first thing I thought of: [Second-Graders Wow Audience With School Performance of _Equus_](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44683) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/25 "2006-07-28T22:43:26Z")
[QUOTE=Kitchen Wench] Yes it does. And to see him like that when he’s not _performing_ is weird. I assume that stage actors wash their faces after the show’s over. [/QUOTE] Once I saw Danny Aiello sitting in a diner in NY, late in the evening. He still had his stage makeup on–lipstick, eyeliner, the works. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/26 "2006-07-28T22:46:38Z")
Hmmm. Just looked on IMDB, and there’s no indication that Danny Aiello does anything on stage. Maybe I should modify my statement to say, “I once saw an actor, who looked incredibly like Danny Aiello, wearing stage makeup in a decidedly inappropriate place.” ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/27 "2006-07-28T22:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Hmmm. Just looked on IMDB, and there’s no indication that Danny Aiello does anything on stage. Maybe I should modify my statement to say, “I once saw an actor, who looked incredibly like Danny Aiello, wearing stage makeup in a decidedly inappropriate place.” [/QUOTE] Imdb doesn’t usually list stage work. You want the [i **b** db.](http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=29451) Of course, the last credit listed there is in 1987, so if it was after that then perhaps it was an Off-Broadway show. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/28 "2006-07-28T22:58:39Z")
A friend of mine used to work in burbank, about two blocks from where The Drew Carey Show was filmed. The actress who played Mimi would regularly go to a diner in her building, in the full Mimi makeup…she says it was always a sight to behold. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395/29 "2006-07-29T05:03:04Z")
A friend of mine ran for office and had an opportunity to tape a short speech to be run several times before the election on the local PBS station. She didn’t normally wear makeup at all but she had a friend who could do theatrical makeup. I picked her up to take her to the studio and, boy, did she look garish, especially in contrast to her normal look. We had to park a couple blocks from the studio in a somewhat seedy part of town. As we were walking I had a sudden flash and leaned over to murmer, “I just had a thought on how you can raise some money for your campaign.” “Shaddup,” she shot back. “I’m feeling conspicuous enough as it is.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe/366395.md?page=1)