Some roles are linked to an actor in almost permanent way. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter in eight films, now says he isn’t sure he’ll watch HBO’s new Harry Potter series, and his reason has nothing to do with the show itself.
“I don’t know if I will [watch], honestly,” Radcliffe told the Associated Press at the premiere of his new Netflix animated film, Steps, on Sunday, Nov. 8. “I’ve been in a lot of Harry Potter already. And also, I don’t watch any TV.”
He wasn’t exaggerating. “I haven’t seen Breaking Bad; I haven’t seen Mad Men; I haven’t seen some of the real classics,” he said. “So, you know. Eight hours is a lot of anything to watch.”
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The first season of the HBO series, adapting Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, premieres Dec. 25. Dominic McLaughlin stars as Harry, with Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. John Lithgow plays Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer plays Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu plays Severus Snape and Nick Frost plays Rubeus Hagrid. HBO has already renewed the show for a second season, with Kit Harington cast as Gilderoy Lockhart and Lenny Rush as Dobby.
Radcliffe made clear he isn’t keeping his distance out of disapproval. He told the AP he has no public advice for McLaughlin. “He’s got it. He doesn’t need any advice from me,” he said, adding that he doesn’t want to “haunt this poor child through interviews.”
He has been supportive from the start. Radcliffe previously revealed on Good Morning America that he wrote McLaughlin a letter after the casting. “I just see these pictures of him and the other kids and I just want to hug them,” he said at the time. In a February interview with ScreenRant, he urged fans and press to stop asking the young cast about him, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, saying he would like not to be “weird spectral phantoms in these children’s lives.”
His comments also fit a long pattern. Radcliffe has said he has only rewatched his own Potter films once or twice. Earlier this year, he said he would rather show his young son the HBO series than the movies he starred in. “Hopefully I can just put that on, and he doesn’t have to watch me in it,” he said in February. “That’d be, honestly, the ideal.”
Radcliffe began playing the boy wizard at 11, and the new series puts a different actor in the role on screen for the first time since the final film arrived in 2011. Radcliffe said he hopes to meet McLaughlin someday. “He’s going to be amazing,” he said.
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