Daniel Radcliffe confirmed to People magazine that he has spoken to his “Harry Potter” co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint about HBO’s television reboot, specifically “how surreal [it is] to watch people starting off on that journey, all those years later.”

“[We haven’t had] a ton of communication about the show specifically,” Radcliffe said while acknowledging the original “Harry Potter” trio is all aligned when it comes to the emotions of seeing new child actors step into these iconic roles.

“It’s one of those where I think we all just know how the others feel, because we’re also feeling it,” Radcliffe said. “You just see the pictures of these kids, and you just want to grab them and hug them. That’s the impulse that I think that we, mainly, all have.”

Radcliffe, Watson and Grint played Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, which included eight movies made between 2001 and 2011. HBO’s series reboot has cast Dominic McLaughlin as Harry, Arabella Stanton as Hermione and Alastair Stout as Ron. Radcliffe told People this new trio is giving him perspective on his own tenure playing Harry.

“When you’re 11, and you’re doing something, you’re like, ‘Of course I’m old enough to do this — I’m the oldest I’ve ever been,’” Radcliffe said. “But now when I meet 11-year-olds, I am like, ‘Whoa, that seems nuts.’ It puts into perspective. Honestly, it makes me admire – and I do tell them this, but my parents — more than I was capable of doing at the time. Just going like, ‘Wow, you got me through something crazy, and you did it with a huge amount of humor,’ yeah, it’s a big task.”

Radcliffe revealed on “Good Morning America” last year that he wrote a letter to McLaughlin after the newcomer was announced as HBO’s Harry Potter. 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.”

Grint similarly wrote a letter to Stout in order to “pass the baton” to the young actor as he takes over the role of Ron Weasley,” adding: “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.”

Radcliffe recently made headlines for urging the press not to always ask the new cast of HBO’s “Harry Potter” about the original movies.

“When these kids got cast, there is a whole thing around the internet being like, ‘We have to look after these kids!’” Radcliffe told ScreenRant. “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.”

HBO’s “Harry Potter” is set to premiere in 2027.