David Blaine almost doesn't make it in time for an interview call, but he's got a very good reason -- his and fiancee Alizee Guinochet's toddler daughter, Dessa.

"It's hard to put her down even for a phone call as important as this," Blaine tells Zap2it. "She'll be 3 in a few months. Everything she does is magic. I'm the fraud; she's the real deal."

After years of becoming known for such dangerous, death-defying stunts as being imprisoned in a block of ice, standing on a towering pole, being submerged in a water-filled sphere and being surrounded by electric Tesla coils, Brooklyn, N.Y., native Blaine has returned to his first love, traditional magic performed on the street and up close.

Shot over the course of a year, the 90-minute "David Blaine: Real or Magic" airs on Tuesday, Nov. 19. It features such celebrities as Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul,...