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"Now You See Me 2," out in U.S. theaters on Friday, picks up
three years after the 2013 film and shows the 'Four Horsemen'
magicians use their illusions to try and stop a sinister tech
tycoon and his unethical practices.
The cast, which includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave
Franco, Mark Ruffalo and Lizzy Caplan, were put through 'magic
camp' in order to learn sleight of hand and other tricks to
perform on screen.
"It was literally like three card tables set up in a dirty
production room covered with half eaten food," Ruffalo said.
"But the idea of 'magic camp' is like a great idea and I think
that idea could be huge," Harrelson quipped.
Harrelson, who plays Horseman Merritt 'The Hermit' McKinney,
showed off his magic skills at the film's New York press event
by guessing the card a reporter picked out of a deck. Former
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the villainous
Walter Mabry, proudly demonstrated a card trick he learned
during filming.
"We're not like a shoot-em-up (movie)," Radcliffe said. "There
are some amazing sequences that involve the sleight of hand and
the magic."
Radcliffe, who has eight films' worth of magic experience as boy
wizard Harry Potter, fondly looked back on the franchise that
catapulted him to fame.
"If I was getting angsty about being recognized as Potter, or
being associated with Potter I think I would waste a ton of
energy like worrying about that. People are always going to
associate me with it and I'm very happy about that," he said.
(Reporting by Alicia Powell for Reuters TV; Writing Piya Sinha-Roy
in Los Angeles; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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