
“I have really, really fond memories of all my scenes with Gary Oldman and David Thewlis ” he said. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight in 2021, Radcliffe looked back on the past 20 years of the Harry Potter movies. The special, which premiered in January 2022, told “an enchanting making-of story through all-new, in-depth interviews and cast conversations,” according to HBO Max, and saw the original cast revisit Hogwarts, Diagon Alley and other iconic sets from the Harry Potter universe. In November 2021, HBO Max announced that a reunion special titled Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts was in the works with Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, as well as dozens of other actors, directors and producers from the eight Harry Potter movies. Radcliffe-along with Emma Watson and Rupert Grint (who played Harry’s friends, Hermione and Ron)-went on to star in eight Harry Potter movies from 2001 to 2011. “I don’t think Chris Columbus could have found a better Harry,” she said at the time. “This is Harry Potter.” Rowling also endorsed Columbus’ casting choice. “This is what I want,” Columbus told The Independent in 2007. Radcliffe was cast in the role after Chris Columbus-who directed the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone-saw him in the 1999 BBC miniseries, David Copperfield.
