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Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Daniel Radcliffe has put Harry Potter behind him

'It would be very weird to see someone else play him.'

Christopher Hooton
Wednesday 18 November 2015 16:28 GMT
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Daniel Radcliffe might have been on US chat Watch What Happens Live to promote his new film Victor Frankenstein, but let’s face it, the actor will still be fielding questions on Harry Potter long into his eighties.

In reference to the upcoming play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Radcliffe told host Andy Cohen: "I'm getting asked a lot, 'Would you play him?' and I'm like, 'No.' "Because I've done it.

He added with a pang of wistfulness: “But it would be very weird to see someone else play him."

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child officially opens on Saturday 30 July in two parts

The eighth instalment to the wizarding series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is a play in two parts designed to be seen on the same day or on consecutive evenings.

It is being written by Jack Thorne and devised by JK Rowling, should apparently be viewed “as canon” and is expected to centre around Harry’s middle son Albus Severus, seeing an adult Harry - probably an Auror working for the Ministry of Magic - “grapple with his past” in relation to his own son’s struggle with “a family legacy he never wanted”.

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