Daniel Radcliffe reveals the extent of his involvement with Harry Potter TV show-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro

Daniel Radcliffe won’t be getting involved with the US Harry Potter adaptation (Picture: Getty)

Daniel Radcliffe has poured the coldest water possible on rumours that he might be set for a cameo role in the planned Harry Potter TV series.

The British actor, 34, was cast as the saga’s eponymous hero 24 years ago and played the world famous wizard in eight films between 2001 and 2011.

Since then, Radcliffe has seemed happy to leave the Wizarding World in his past, preferring to remember it fondly rather than continue working on Harry Potter projects.

However, with the TV adaptation of the teen fantasy novel series on the way via HBO Max, Potter fans everywhere had hoped Radcliffe would make a surprise appearance in one or two episodes.

But it sounds like any hopes of him guest starring in the prospective Harry Potter TV show are slim, with Radcliffe insisting he wants very little – if anything – to do with it.

When asked if he would be involved with the production, he told E! News: ‘I don’t think so, I think they very wisely want to [get] a clean break.’

Radcliffe played Harry Potter (Picture: Warner Bros.)

He then commented on whether his co-stars Emma Watson or Rupert Grint would be up for it instead: ‘I don’t know if it would work to have [me, Watson, or Grint] do anything in it.’

Despite saying he would have nothing to do with the Harry Potter TV show, Radcliffe was still asked whether he would be involved in any other related projects in the future.

He kept his cards close to his chest once more: ‘I’m gonna be a politician about this and not deal in hypotheticals. I’m very happy to just watch along with everyone else.’

The TV show will be a ‘faithful’ adaptation of the fantasy novel series (Picture: Warner Bros)

As for who will play Harry in the TV series, which is set for release some time later this decade, it’s not yet known, but any casting decisions will be signed off by Harry Potter JK Rowling.

The Daily Mail reported in April last year that the author, who wrote all seven books in the series and was involved with production for eight of the films, will ‘personally approve’ the new Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Radcliffe was, in fact, cast as Harry back in 2000 after Rowling insisted on a relatively unknown actor being placed in the role. Initial proposals in the 1990s recommended The Sixth Sense actor Haley Joel Osment.

Radcliffe has also ruled out involvement in any other Harry Potter projects (Picture: Getty)

These days, the two are at odds in the public eye after expressing their differing views on transgender people and the so-called ‘gender critical’ movement.

Rowling, 58, has insisted she’s unlikely to ever forgive the Swiss Army Man and Horns actor after his years of vocal advocacy for transgender rights in the UK.

She accused him of ‘cosying up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and cheering on the transitioning of minors’, adding that he could ‘save [his] apologies’.

In response, Radcliffe said: ‘It makes me really sad, ultimately. 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.’

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