Daniel Radcliffe Tells Press Not to Always Ask HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Cast About the Original Movie Actors: ‘Just Let Them Get On… It’s Going to Be Different’

Daniel Radcliffe recently joined ScreenRant for a video interview and urged press moving forward not to ask the new “Harry Potter” actors about the original cast. Dominic McLaughlin is taking over the lead role in HBO’s “Harry Potter” series reboot opposite Arabella Stanton as Hermione and Alastair Stout as Ron.

“When these kids got cast, there is a whole thing around the internet being like, ‘We have to look after these kids!'” Radcliffe said. “If you really mean that, then one of the things you can do is don’t ask about us – me, Emma [Watson] and Rupert [Grint] – all the time. I would like not to be weird spectral phantoms in these children’s lives. Just let them get on [with it], it’s going to be a new, different thing. I’m sure Dominic is going to be better than me.”

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Radcliffe revealed on “Good Morning America” last year that he wrote a letter to McLaughlin after the newcomer was announced as HBO’s Boy Who Lived. The young actor later said it was “insane” to receive Radcliffe’s support and “I was going mad.”

“I wrote to Dominic and sent him a letter and he sent me a very sweet note back,” Radcliffe said. “I don’t want to be a specter in the life of these children but I just wanted to write to him to say, ‘I hope you have the best time, and an even better time than I did — I had a great time, but I hope you have an even better time.’ And I do, I just see these pictures of him and the other kids and I just want to hug them. They just seem so young. I just look at them and say, ‘Oh, it’s crazy I was doing that at that age.’ But it’s also incredibly sweet and I hope they’re having a great time.”

Rupert Grint similarly wrote a letter to Alastair Stout as the young actor takes over the role of Ron Weasley. As Grint told the BBC last year: “I wrote him a letter before they started, passing the baton as it were. It was really just wishing him all the best with it. I had so much fun stepping into this world, and I hope he has the same experience… It’s quite strange to have the cycle happening again. I’m really intrigued what it’s going to be like.”

While Radcliffe’s “Harry Potter” experience is near and dear to his heart, he told ScreenRant that he’s only ever watched his own “Potter” movies once or twice. He quipped that he’s actually excited to show his children HBO’s reboot instead.

“I’ll probably show my kid that so he doesn’t have to watch me,” Radcliffe said. “I think that will be more fun. I would probably enjoy it more… I hate watching myself, generally. I would like to watch the earlier films more because I’m so much further away from them. When I was 18 or 10, I was embarrassed by my 10 or 11 year old self.”

Watch Radcliffe’s full interview with ScreenRant in the video below.