Daniel Radcliffe Leaves Door Open to 'Harry Potter' Return
Daniel Radcliffe may have hung up his robe and shelved his wand after finishing work on 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2. But that doesn’t mean he’s saying “never” when it comes to possibly reprising the role that first made him a worldwide star.
In a recent interview with Radio Times, the 26-year-old actor admits that the door isn’t completely closed on a potential return to the wizarding world created by author JK Rowling. Still, the situation would have to be ideal:
“It would depend on the script. The circumstances would have to be pretty extraordinary. But then I am sure Harrison Ford said that with Han Solo and look what happened there! So I am saying, ‘No,’ for now but leaving room to backtrack in the future.”
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Of course, Rowling’s Potter saga has received a new chapter on the London stage, where Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continues to wow sell-out audiences. Radcliffe, however, not only has no artistic connection to the production, but he hasn’t even attended the show, in large part because he fears that he’ll become an unwanted center of attention, telling E! News:
“I could be completely wrong in this, but I feel like if I went to see it that night, there’s going to be a lot of Harry Potter fans there in the audience obviously and would that then become a thing? Would it be more about them watching me watch the show or would it take away from the show. I would never want to do anything that would distract or take away from the show.”
Radcliffe has nonetheless kept himself busy on the magic front, co-starring in last month’s magician-thieves sequel Now You See Me 2. Just as fantastically, he also stars in the newly released indie Swiss Army Man, in which he plays a corpse with severe flatulence issues — a character who, undoubtedly, wouldn’t be welcome anywhere near Hogwarts.
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