Daniel Radcliffe Is Unsure If He’ll Watch HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ and Says the New Star ‘Doesn’t Need Any Advice From Me’

Daniel Radcliffe is sending well wishes to Dominic McLaughlin, who plays the title role in HBO‘s upcoming “Harry Potter” adaptation, but will likely sit out from watching the show. When asked by the Associated Press about watching the new take on the franchise that made him famous, Radcliffe said, “I don’t know if I will, honestly. I’ve watched [and] been in a lot of ‘Harry Potter’ already. Also, I don’t watch any TV. I haven’t seen ‘Breaking Bad’; I haven’t seen ‘Mad Men’; I haven’t seen some of the real classics. So, you know. Eight hours is a lot of anything to watch.” Radcliffe also kindly declined to offer 12-year-old McLaughlin any pointers about playing Harry. “I’m really, truly in the business of not giving Dominic advice,” he said. “He’s got it. He doesn’t need any advice from me. If I say something to you, then the next interview people have with him, they’ll be like, ‘Oh, Dan said you should do this.’ And I don’t want to haunt this poor child through interviews. so I have no advice for him. He’s gonna be amazing, and I hope that I will — I think I’ll get to meet him someday and I’m very excited about that.” Radcliffe and McLaughlin have exchanged words at least once. Last year, Radcliffe shared that he’d written McLaughlin a letter, and that the young actor sent “a very sweet note back.” “I don’t want to be a specter in the life of these children but I just wanted to write to him to say, ‘I hope you have the best time, and an even better time than I did — I had a great time, but I hope you have an even better time,’” Radcliffe said on “Good Morning America.” “I just see these pictures of him and the other kids and I just want to hug them. They just seem so young. I just look at them and say, ‘Oh, it’s crazy I was doing that at that age.’ But it’s also incredibly sweet and I hope they’re having a great time.” Radcliffe became one of the most recognizable faces in the world when he played Harry Potter in eight wildly popular films released by Warner Bros. between 2001 to 2011. Since then, he’s appeared in several Broadway productions, films and TV series. He can currently be seen in “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” on NBC opposite Tracy Morgan, and is in the voice cast of the animated film “Steps,” which drops on Netflix on Nov. 20.