Daniel Radcliffe: ‘I Don’t Particularly Miss Harry Potter’

Daniel Radcliffe has left Harry Potter behind, and the 24-year-old is perfectly content with leaving his wizarding days in the past.

At the Toronto International Film Festival, where he has three films premiering this week, Radcliffe said that he is happy to have moved on from the Harry Potter franchise.

“I’m excited that people will finally get a chance to see me do different stuff. We had a fantastic time doing Harry Potter but it’s really exciting to move on and doing other things,” he said.

“I’ll always be incredibly proud of it. I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you all if it weren’t for Harry Potter. I have no illusions about that. But I don’t particularly miss it,” he added. “I’m very happy doing other things now.”

The three films Radcliffe has premiering at TIFF are the romantic comedy The F Word, the murder mystery Horns, which is based on the Joe Hill novel of the same name, and the biographical drama Kill Your Darlings in which he plays beat poet Allen Ginsburg.

“It certainly wasn’t a strategy that they’d all be at TIFF,” he said.

Radcliffe also said that he didn’t think any of the films would be the one to finally break him away from Harry Potter.

“There’s never going to be one film that comes out that officially breaks me away from Harry. It’s a process,” he said. “But I definitely think that these three films are a part of that.”

Asked if he’s kept in touch with his Harry Potter co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe admitted that he hadn’t spoken with Emma Watson in some time.

“I’m sure I’ll bump into her at one point,” he said. “But we were all together for 10 years so we’re excited to be going off and working with new people now.”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first film in the franchise, was released in 2001. The last film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, was released a decade later.

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