Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe: Twilight Star Robert Pattinson "Had to Deal With a Lot More"

Former boy wizard dishes on how his ex-costar has handled his fame from the popular vamp franchise

By Ted Casablanca Aug 22, 2011 6:11 PMTags
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Sure, Daniel Radcliffe may have starred in one of biggest films, like, ever, but there's one thing in par-tick most peeps want to ask him about, and it has nothing to do with wands or wizard scars.

We're talking about former costar-turned-Twilight superstar Robert Pattinson. The two dudes butted heads in the fourth Harry Potter flick, The Goblet of Fire, and D.Rad is still fielding questions about the famous vamp:

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"I haven't seen him since any of the Twilight stuff," Dan Rad dishes to Access Hollywood when asked if the two are pals. "From my memory of him, at least, he's a very, very nice guy."

What?! You mean hunky British actors don't hold an annual convention to catch up and chitchat about how hot they are?

But just because the two don't spend their off-set time texting each other, Dan is still way thrilled for the Harry Potter alum:

"It's bizarre. It's wonderful and lovely to see anyone from the franchise going off and doing other things and becoming hugely successful. But yeah, our only contact is through journalists and TV presenters now."

Well maybe it's time you started up that convention then, D, ‘cause this isn't the first you've been asked about R.Pattz, and it definitely won't be the last.

That is, if Rob can escape the Twilight pandemonium long enough to make it. Because even Daniel can only guess the insanity that Robert has to deal with.

"You know, I think he's had to deal with a lot more," Daniel reveals about Rob's level of fame. "I had a very gradual easing in to the idea of fame...While the whole Potter film franchise was exploding, I was in studios filming and kind of unaware that this thing was going massive outside."

And as for Rob?

"Rob, suddenly at the age of however old he was," Daniel explains, "suddenly he was the most famous guy in the world. I think that's a lot harder to deal with."

But at least according to Daniel, Rob had better enjoy it while he can.

"I'm not going to have this fame forever," Daniel predicts. "I have it now and it's going to go. There's going to be some other new franchise and some other young new guy. So, you've got to enjoy this stuff while it happens."

Hear that, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth? You're next!