Daniel Radcliffe plays a documentarian on The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins — but off screen he would like to make an actual movie about costar Tracy Morgan.
“Truthfully, [I would like to make a documentary about] Tracy. Simply to follow him around with a camera for a specific amount,” Radcliffe, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly. “I asked him if he would ever do this and he was like, ‘I’m still living but possibly later.’”
Radcliffe was grateful for the prospect to share the screen with Morgan, 57, saying, “Working with Tracy means you’re going to hear and say five of the craziest belongings you’ve ever heard in your life. But he’s also an incredibly generous and fun scene partner.”
He continued, “The thing that comes through while you’re working with him is that all of us just love working and love being there on set. As soon as Tracy realized that he liked all of us and that we were all in it together, you possibly can tell he loosened up and had an incredible time.”
The NBC mockumentary sitcom, which premiered in January, stars Morgan as a disgraced former NFL running back attempting to rehabilitate his image following a previous gambling scandal. Radcliffe, meanwhile, plays a filmmaker hired to provide a documentary about Reggie’s life.
Radcliffe’s costar Bobby Moynihan referred to Morgan as “a giant beating heart” of their show.
“He’s going to say what he’s going to say. It’s really fun to improvise with Tracy Morgan since it’s a blast,” Moynihan, 49, noted. “He is a celebration. He walks in with a boombox, he walks out with a boombox. It’s that much fun to play with him on and off screen as well.”
Morgan’s onscreen son Jalyn Hall called the actor “so stuffed with wisdom, real, personable and so inviting.”
“Those are traits of a superb man — they’re even higher traits of a superb teacher,” he shared while Precious Way added about her onscreen husband, “He’s so supportive too.”
While speaking with Us, creator Robert Carlock revealed how the show “began with” Morgan.
“I’ve worked with Tracy on and off since Saturday Night Live within the 90s. I’ve just at all times loved writing for him. In fact we had him on 30 rock and he form of put his hands up and said, ‘I’m able to do something recent,’” Carlock noted. “We said, ‘Please get the band back.’ So we sat down with Tina [Fey] and eventually sat down with Tracy. We were watching numerous sports documentaries on the time like The Last Dance and Beckham. We thought that was a very wealthy place to begin with a family comedy but a fun recent tackle the doc.”
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins airs on NBC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.