Daniel Radcliffe has a prediction: HBO’s new Harry Potter star is going to upstage him.
In a YouTube segment, the actor was asked by ScreenRant about HBO’s new series which will adapt J.K. Rowling’s novels across eight seasons.
Radcliffe generously said he suspects the young actor playing Potter, Dominic McLaughlin, would be far better in the iconic lead role than he was.
“I’m sure Dominic is going to be better than me,” Radcliffe said. “I learned as I went. I look back on what I did now with a lot more kindness, and I find it less embarrassing now that I’m older. But I was very much learning how to do it for a long time on Potter.”
Radcliffe also had a request: Quit asking the original Harry Potter stars about the new actors playing their former roles, and vice versa.
“When these kids got cast, there’s a whole thing around the internet, around the world, people being like, ‘We’ve got to look after these kids,’” he said. “I was like, ‘If you mean that, if everyone really means what they are saying, then one of the things you can do for me is not ask about me and Rupert [Grint about it] all the time.’ I would like not to be weird spectral phantoms in these children’s lives, and just to let them, like, get on it. Because it’s going to be a new thing.”
Radcliffe is currently promoting his NBC sports comedy, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, where he plays a disgraced filmmaker making a documentary.
Harry Potter is expected to premiere in 2027. Here is the complete cast of the new series.
