For a decade, child star Daniel Radcliffe portrayed the title role in the "Harry Potter" movie series. It is hard to imagine a different actor portraying The Boy Who Lived, but this is exactly what will happen when the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" rolls about.
The stage production will be written by famed author J.K. Rowling. She has teased that the play will be told in two parts starting July 2016, and will focus its story on Potter's middle child Albus Severus Potter.
The official synopsis of the play reads: "It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children."
"While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places," it continued.
Since that revelation, Radcliffe has been asked several times if he will be reprising his role as Harry Potter. "I'm getting asked a lot, 'Would you play him?'" he told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live.
Radcliffe does not want to get people's hopes up for nothing, so he said that he will not be playing Harry Potter for the ninth time (there are eight Harry Potter movies since 'Deathly Hallows' was split into two parts).
However, he did say that it would feel very weird that the role would be passed on to a different actor."But it would be very weird to see someone else play him," he said. "I'm definitely interested in 'Cursed Child,' but I think it would be a weird thing for me to sit through when I would have to be so heavily disguised. I'm no longer part of that world, nor should I be."
Radcliffe has recently been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he considers the distinction an "incredible honor."
"I was taken aback at first, but then I had a real sense of gratitude. Only about 20 percent of people who work in film and television end up on the Walk of Fame. It's kind of amazing. I don't know if they remove these things, but no matter how badly I mess up, they can't remove it," Radcliffe told Variety.
