{"id":44250,"date":"2026-04-14T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44250"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:00:56","slug":"harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe-no-longer-feels-cringe-when-watching-himself-in-the-early-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44250","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Star Daniel Radcliffe No Longer Feels &#8216;Cringe&#8217; When Watching Himself in the Early Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Harry Potter movie star Daniel Radcliffe has said he disagrees with former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield, who recently praised his performance in the Wizarding World films. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">On the upside, however, Radcliffe told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he no longer feels &#8220;cringe&#8221; when watching his performance as a child actor \u2014 something he previously did while rewatching the movies as a teenager. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">For context, Garfield recently revealed to Hits Radio that he had only just watched the Harry Potter movies for the first time, and noted that Radcliffe was &#8220;really good&#8221; in them. Garfield&#8217;s praise was then put to Radcliffe, who responded that the actor was &#8220;fantastic,&#8221; before saying: &#8220;I disagree with him about my performance in Potter, but that&#8217;s really nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I have more time now for me in the early films,&#8221; Radcliffe continued. &#8220;When I was 18 I would cringe watching the earlier films. Now I think the earlier films are sweet, and I cringe when watching myself when I was 18 or 19. And I assume those dates will keep changing as to what I find palatable about my own work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Asked to rank the eight Harry Potter movies, Radcliffe picked the series&#8217; final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, as his favorite, with Goblet of Fire in second place. Half-Blood Prince was ranked bottom, though Radcliffe said this was for his own &#8220;stuff&#8221; and not for the film itself.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Separately, Radcliffe has also spoken warmly of the new actor set to take on the title role in HBO&#8217;s upcoming Harry Potter TV series. Radcliffe wrote to 11-year-old Dominic McLaughlin last year to wish him luck for the start of the show&#8217;s mammoth production, which is set to continue for much of the next decade. <\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The 25 Best Harry Potter Characters<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I just see those pictures of him and all the other kids and I just want to hug them,&#8221; Radcliffe said at the time. &#8220;They just seem so young. I do look at them and I go, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s crazy that I was doing that at that age.&#8217; But it&#8217;s also incredibly sweet, and I hope they&#8217;re having a great time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">HBO is set to debut its first episodes of the Harry Potter series this Christmas, with the season then continuing into early 2027. Writing is now underway on the series&#8217; second season, and a recent major set leak gave fans a detailed look at the new Diagon Alley, while HBO has admitted the company is spending big on the show, and making a level of financial investment it normally wouldn&#8217;t make.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Image credit: Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em>@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/harry-potter-star-daniel-radcliffe-says-he-no-longer-feels-cringe-when-watching-himself-in-the-early-movies-though-disagrees-with-andrew-garfields-praise-that-he-was-really-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter movie star Daniel Radcliffe has said he disagrees with former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield, who recently praised his performance in the Wizarding World films&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18877,11216,1709,1002,2439,1452,3345,2440,20466,297,6443],"class_list":["post-44250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cringe","tag-daniel","tag-early","tag-feels","tag-harry","tag-longer","tag-movies","tag-potter","tag-radcliffe","tag-star","tag-watching","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}