Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter across eight films, and as the book series is rebooted as an HBO series, the actor reached out to the young actor taking on the lead role.
In an interview on Good Morning America, Radcliffe revealed that he had penned a letter to Dominic McLaughlin as he took on the challenge of portraying Harry Potter in a television series.
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“I wouldn’t 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,” Radcliffe said on the ABC morning show. “I wrote to Dominic and sent him a letter, and he sent me a very sweet note back.”
Radcliffe added that he didn’t “want to be a specter in the life of these children” but wrote him a letter 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,” he continued. “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.”
Aside from 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 as potions master Snape, John Lithgow as headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, and Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid.
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