Daniel Radcliffe on the Netflix sports documentary that made him cry ‘three times in 40 minutes’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The first film that my girlfriend remembers me crying at – we’d been together for about a year and a half and she had never seen me cry in any context at that point because it’s not something that generally happens a lot – was when we watched a documentary called Undefeated about an American high school football team in Tennessee,” he told Deadline. “I cried three times at three completely separate things in the last 40 minutes of the film,” Radcliffe said. “So, that’s a long way of saying sports movies and particularly sports documentaries make me tear up.” Radcliffe can currently be seen in the biopic Weird, in which he plays comedy musician “Weird” Al Yankovic. “I got to jump in and do bits, and when you’re doing that kind of stuff and it’s chaos and you’re against the clock but it’s going really well, that’s really, really exciting.” Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only.