{"id":140849,"date":"2025-11-19T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140849\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:45:07","slug":"i-just-want-to-hug-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140849\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Want To Hug Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDaniel Radcliffe<\/a> played Harry Potter<\/a> across eight films, and as the book series is rebooted as an HBO<\/a> series, the actor reached out to the young actor taking on the lead role.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview on Good Morning America, Radcliffe revealed that he had penned a letter to Dominic McLaughlin<\/a> as he took on the challenge of portraying Harry Potter in a television series.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that anyone who is going to play Harry has to [reach out to me], but I know a few people working on the production,\u201d Radcliffe said on the ABC morning show. \u201cI wrote to Dominic and sent him a letter and he sent me a very sweet note back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRadcliffe added that he didn\u2019t \u201cwant to be a specter in the life of these children,\u201d but wrote him a letter to say, \u201c\u2018I hope you have the best time, and an even better time than I did \u2014 I had a great time, but I hope you have an even better time.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd I do, I just see these pictures of him and the other kids and I just want to hug them,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey just seem so young. I just look at them and say, \u2018Oh it\u2019s crazy I was doing that at that age.\u2019 But it\u2019s also incredibly sweet, and I hope they\u2019re having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAside from Dominic McLaughlin playing the boy who lived, Arabella Stanton was cast as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout was revealed to play Ron Weasley. Other actors on the show include Paapa Essiedu <\/a>as potions master Snape<\/a>,\u00a0Jo<\/a>hn Lithgow as headmaster<\/a> Albus Dumbledore<\/a>,\u00a0Janet McTeer\u00a0as Minerva McGonagall<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter across eight films, and as the book series is rebooted as an HBO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35774,87046,146,5032,4302,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-140849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-daniel-radcliffe","9":"tag-dominic-mclaughlin","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-potter","12":"tag-hbo","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}