Most of the guests who appear on Bravo's "Inside the Actors Studio" end up doing a career retrospective -- like their best work is already behind them. But when Daniel Radcliffe appears on Monday's episode (December 1 at 8 p.m. ET), he livens up the joint, in part because he's the youngest guest James Lipton has ever had.

"Remember, Daniel's closer in age to my students, the actors at the New School," Lipton told us, "and they love that. He's talking to his peers."

Radcliffe told the students that it was practically by accident that he became an actor, since the idea to send him on his first audition was to give him a good story to tell at school, not to land a part. He'd been complaining to his mother that he was "crap at everything … I was crap at academic stuff, I was crap at sports," and so a friend of his father's -- and ever since, Radcliffe's agent -- suggested that he try out for "David Copperfield." Read more...