Daniel Radcliffe Says He's Not ‘Interested’ in Playing Harry Potter in a Cursed Child Movie

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, declined. “This isn’t the answer that anybody’s going to want, but I think I was so able to go back and enjoy it because it’s not a part of my day-to-day life anymore,” he said. “I’m getting to a point where I feel like I made it out of 'Potter' OK and I’m really happy with where I am now, and to go back would be such a massive change to my life.”In Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, which picks up nineteen years after the events of Deathly Hallows, the Golden Trio (Harry, Ron, and Hermione) have become parents to their own brood of Hogwarts trouble-makers.

There's also some time-travel and…I won't spoil more.The play ran on London's West End and on Broadway in two parts before the pandemic and has since reopened as a one-night performance in New York (London still has the two-night version running).

In honor of the film franchise's recent 20th anniversary, Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets director Chris Columbus told he was interested in adapting the play into a film with the original stars.

He pointed out that Radcliffe, , and are finally the right age for the story. (They're actually a few years younger than their Cursed Child counterparts but movies do take a lot of time to make.)Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe as Hermione Granger and Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).Still, Daniel Radcliffe isn't shutting the door forever. “I’m never going to say never,”  he told the NYT.