Daniel Radcliffe he had very specific advice Harry Potter to cost Tom Felton before his Broadway debut.
“The only thing I said to him, because it’s something we don’t have in the UK, so I wasn’t sure if he would have experienced it, is a standing ovation,” Radcliffe, 36, said. Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, Dec. 1, of his advice for Felton, 38, who debuted in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last month “I said, ‘They’re going to go crazy when you walk out on that stage for the first time.’
Radcliffe continued: “We’ve been trying to meet for a long time and we haven’t been able to. So I said, I’m just going to send him a voice note to say, ‘Dude, in case nobody mentioned it, because I could also see that it was the kind of thing that people hadn’t thought to say to him, so you don’t know when the audience knows, out there for the first time.'”
Although they didn’t get a chance to meet in person before Felton’s Broadway run, the former co-stars had a chance to connect at the Sony Pictures Classics Cinema Society screening. We happily accompany each other — in which Radcliffe stars with Jonathan Groff i Lindsay Mendez — at the Hudson Theater & The Skylark.
Daniel Radcliffe first found fame as Harry Potter, but won his first major acting honor, a Tony Award, more than 20 years after he first waved his wand. Thank you! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By registering, I accept the Terms and Privacy (…)
Radcliffe and Felton’s heartfelt reunion came 24 years after their first film together, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. They co-starred in eight films of the fantasy series from 2001 to 2011.
“It’s very much a pinch situation. I keep thinking I’m dreaming,” Felton said today‘s Savannah Guthrie i Craig Melvin when announcing his new role in June “So I let this character go 16 years ago, and now I have the opportunity to step back into his shoes as a father, this time in a new story. I know Draco as an adult, which is very exciting.”
Tom Felton bows during the curtain call for his first performance in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on November 11, 2025
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFPwhile The Cursed Child This is Felton’s first time on the Broadway stage, Radcliffe has a long history in the theater, including memorable roles in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying i We happily accompany each otherthe last of which earned him a Tony Award.
“It’s lovely. It’s always nice to be here and come here and feel so welcome here,” Radcliffe said. we of returning to the Hudson Theater — where cheerfully lived from October 2023 to July 2024, and where he will return for his new show, Everything shinynext year “When we were looking for places to do the next show I’m doing, we obviously visited here, and it was so lovely to feel at home somewhere so quickly.”
While theater audiences fell in love with Radcliffe as Charley Kringas last year, the whole world will be able to see his performance when the We happily accompany each other The film hits theaters on Friday, December 5.
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez in Merrily We Roll Along
Matthew Murphy / Sony Pictures Classics / courtesy Everett Collection“It’s a mixed bag shooting a play,” Radcliffe said we. “(It’s) exciting for people who haven’t been able to see it, but I think there’s always something bittersweet for me, because for us cheerfully That’s what we did three times, 400 times, and it’s kind of an accumulation of all those things.”
He continued, “And now there’s a version where I’m like, I’m sure if I watch it again, there will be line readings where I’m like, ‘Oh man, why is this the version of that line that I said that night that’s going to be immortalized now?'”
However, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I’m really excited for the people who didn’t get to see it or the people who liked it and really want to see it again,” Radcliffe added. “I’m so excited that it exists for all of them.”
We happily accompany each other hits theaters December 5