{"id":312139,"date":"2026-03-04T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:31:09","slug":"daniel-radcliffe-delighted-son-can-watch-harry-potter-starring-actor-whos-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312139\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Radcliffe ‘delighted’ son can watch ‘Harry Potter’ starring actor who’s ‘not me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

HBO\u2019s upcoming Harry Potter<\/a> series is a world of wizardry for a new generation \u2014 and that includes Daniel Radcliffe’<\/a>s son!\n<\/p>\n

The original Harry appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a> on March 2 and talked about passing the proverbial wand to Dominic McLaughlin, the young actor starring in the upcoming TV adaptation of the Potter novels. As it turns out, the casting also plays a magical role in the Radcliffe household.\n<\/p>\n

“I’m actually delighted that when my kid grows and is into Harry Potter, he can watch a version that is not me,\u201d Radcliffe joked. \u201cI feel like watching it with your dad would be less cool. It would take you out of it\u2026 And that means that at some point there will be somebody else to answer all the Harry Potter questions and I can pass that on to them too.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

It’s certainly not unusual for various actors to portray an iconic character throughout the years. As Radcliffe noted, in his lifetime alone the Spider-Man<\/a> suit has been donned by Tobey Maguire<\/a> (Sam Raimi’s movie trilogy), Andrew Garfield<\/a> (The Amazing Spider-Man series), and Tom Holland<\/a> in the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

“There will always be many, many iterations,” Radcliffe reasoned to Colbert. “So I’m very happy to see it passed onto somebody else, and best of luck to all of them.”\n<\/p>\n

Dominic McLaughlin has been cast as Harry Potter in HBO’s upcoming series.<\/p>\n

Aidan Monaghan\/HBO<\/p>\n

Radcliffe, who is currently starring on Broadway in Every Brilliant Thing, made his debut as Harry Potter in 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone<\/a>, the first of eight films in the film franchise based on J. K. Rowling\u2019s fantasy novels.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Daniel Radcliffe starred alongside Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger).<\/p>\n

Peter Mountain\/Warner Bros.<\/p>\n

As he successfully broke the \u201cchild star curse\u201d with an award-winning career on the stage and screen, Radcliffe also found love: He met actress Erin Darke on the set of 2013\u2019s Kill Your Darlings and the couple welcomed a son in April 2023.\u00a0The toddler isn’t yet aware of Harry Potter and Radcliffe is enjoying the anonymity while it lasts. “For as long as I can just be his dad, and he won’t know me as anything else, I will maintain that for as long as I can,” he recently told The New York Times<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Check out Radcliffe’s interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for more on his lasting friendship with Harry Potter nemesis Tom Felton:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s upcoming Harry Potter series is a world of wizardry for a new generation \u2014 and that includes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-312139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}