Daniel Radcliffe: ‘I Don’t Know If It Would Work’ to Have Original ‘Harry Potter’ Stars Appear in Max Series

Sounds like Daniel Radcliffe won’t be returning to Hogwarts anytime soon.

The “Harry Potter” alum, who last appeared in the title role when he closed out the film franchise with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” told E! News that he and his fellow original actors will probably not appear in the upcoming “Harry Potter” series being developed at Max.

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“Like the rest of the world, [I’m] very excited to watch as an audience member,” Radcliffe said, before adding an “I don’t think so” as to whether he will make a cameo.

“I think they very wisely want to [have] a clean break,” Radcliffe continued. “And I don’t know if it would work to have us do anything in it.”

Radcliffe punted on whether or not Max approached him to star in the series, which is slated to premiere in 2026.

“I’m going to be a politician about this and not deal in hypotheticals,” Radcliffe said.

The Tony-nominated actor previously told Comic Book in 2023 that the show will “probably not want to have to figure out how to get old Harry to cameo in this somewhere.”

Radcliffe said at the time, “I’m very excited to have that torch passed. But I don’t think it needs me to physically pass it.”

Still, Radcliffe is forever tied to the IP, as is the novel-series’ author J.K. Rowling. Radcliffe recently commented on Rowling’s controversial social-media statements about the trans community.

“It makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic,” Radcliffe told the Atlantic, while also confirming he has had no direct contact with Rowling since her tweets in June 2020.

Radcliffe explained that his career “would not have happened without” Rowling, saying, “nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person.” Yet, “that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life,” Radcliffe summed up earlier this year.

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