The Time Daniel Radcliffe Told Us That He's Never Seen 'Star Wars'

The Moviefone Blog:

You'll often hear 'Harry Potter' fans compare the film series to 'Star Wars.' For devout followers of Hogwarts's most-impressive student, the juxtaposition is done as a way to explain their fandom to a slightly older audience -- ones who used to camp out overnight in anticipation of the next chapter in the story of Luke and Leia.

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Comments

[olddognewtrick]

05:30 PM on 09/21/2011

If he would just return the book to the library...no more shocking confession...

[MikeDu]

04:08 PM on 09/21/2011

Ha! That got a laugh out of me. 'Star Wars' is like 'Casablanca'. By that I mean when I was young Casablanca was 34 years old and seemed remarkably dated, and to young folks today Star Wars is also 34 years old and seems remarkably dated.

[Jeannette Lacey]

10:49 PM on 09/26/2011

Dated movies are still good...in fact, I just watched "Casablanca" last week. The original Star Wars is by far the best offering from the franchise - there is more to story telling than special effects. And since this young man is "in the business", he should see it. It's movie history and an important part of it at that. In fact, if it hadn't been for the popularity of Star Wars, there might not be the innundation of today's SF, Super Hero and Fantasy film genre that we enjoy - and that offered Mr. Radcliffe the wonderful entree into his profession.

[inmyhumbleopinion]

12:13 PM on 09/21/2011

The better comparison to the Harry Potter series is "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Similar themes of evil and wizardry, and to Daniel's point, probably more evenly split in terms of the gender of the fans since they were books before they were movies.

That said, I loved the original Star Wars movies.

[wincek101]

03:05 AM on 09/21/2011

"No StarWars" ?????? THAT's the ~shocking~ confession??? PA-LEEEEZ

lame...just lame

[jokamachi]

02:19 AM on 09/21/2011

Your nerd credentials are permanently revoked, Daniel.

[Jeannette Lacey]

10:50 PM on 09/26/2011

Yep! He says he's a nerd...but it is a cover up! He can't be if he hasn't seen the original Star Wars. Next thing we'll hear he's never watched Star Trek :)

[LalaSmiles]

12:37 AM on 09/21/2011

I expected a story according to the headline....now I'm all stupefied!

[Onion City]

12:07 AM on 09/21/2011

Well, I haven't seen all the Matrixes and Lord of the Rings yet...

[RedDogBear]

11:02 PM on 09/20/2011

I know you are just trying to get us to click but jeez shocking confession?! I was imagining Emma Watson in sexy lingerie with a bunch of sex toys. But then I imagine that a lot.

[wonketteRAWKS]

11:02 PM on 09/20/2011

I had mac n cheese for dinner!

Don't look so shocked!

[h23154]

10:21 PM on 09/20/2011

I'm shocked. It came out 12 years before he was born. Has he seen Gone With The Wind?

[Freedom Rush]

10:17 PM on 09/20/2011

We get it, write an attention getting headline, you get a click. You get a click, you get paid. But these false headlines are really getting OLD. Please stop it.

[jokamachi]

02:20 AM on 09/21/2011

Word.

[whatchamean]

10:08 PM on 09/20/2011

hey huff po, please fire the person who wrote that headline....please

[whatchamean]

10:07 PM on 09/20/2011

When did huff po become the The Globe.

[dwill123]

09:15 PM on 09/20/2011

This "Shocking" headline must have come from the A/*/o/*/L side of the house.

[wonketteRAWKS]

11:00 PM on 09/20/2011

Nahhh, they've been that way for quite awhile.

[PuzzledinPeoria]

08:55 PM on 09/20/2011

Note to HuffPost: "Shocking" does not mean the same thing as "boring."