{"id":297078,"date":"2026-02-18T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:37:09","slug":"daniel-radcliffe-doesnt-want-new-harry-potter-cast-to-be-asked-about-original-cast-to-not-be-weird-spectral-phantoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297078\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe Doesn&#8217;t Want New &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; Cast To Be Asked About Original Cast To Not Be &#8220;Weird Spectral Phantoms&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-radcliffe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-radcliffe\" data-tag=\"daniel-radcliffe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> is looking out for the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-potter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-potter\" data-tag=\"harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a>\u00a0cast and suggests fans not ask about the original cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor portrayed The Boy Who Lived across eight films, which were adaptations of J.K. Rowling\u2019s book series. As HBO embarks on a new adaptation, now as a series, Radcliffe wants the kids to have their own experience as they take on these characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the casting of the kids for the Harry Potter series, Radcliffe pointed out that people on social media came to a consensus to \u201clook after these kids,\u201d telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zm-uhRPFYF0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ScreenRant<\/a>, \u201cIf everyone really means that \u2026 one of the things you can do for me is not ask about us \u2014 me, Emma [Watson], Rupert [Grint] \u2014 all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI would like not to be a weird spectral phantoms in these children\u2019s lives and just to let them get on \u2026 because it\u2019s going to be a new thing and it\u2019s going to be a different thing,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dominic-mclaughlin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dominic-mclaughlin\" data-tag=\"dominic-mclaughlin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic McLaughlin<\/a> was cast as Harry Potter, while Arabella Stanton will portray Hermione, and Alastair Stour will play Ron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRadcliffe said that he was sure McLaughlin \u201cis going to be better than me and better than I was,\u201d in the titled role, adding that he hopes the kids \u201chave the best time\u201d filming the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast year, Radcliffe revealed he <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/daniel-radcliffe-letter-hbo-harry-potter-dominic-mclaughlin-1236622014\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter to McLaughlin<\/a> after he was cast as Harry Potter, telling him, \u201cI 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the interview with Good Morning America, Radcliffe said, \u201cI 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, \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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe is looking out for the new\u00a0Harry Potter\u00a0cast and suggests fans not ask about the original cast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35774,87046,146,5032,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-297078","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-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297078","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=297078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297078\/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=297078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}