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 Many of the cast of the "Harry
Potter" film franchise reunited for a 20th
anniversary TV special, called "Return to
Hogwarts," to be broadcast on Jan. 1 on HBO Max.
Radcliffe, 32, was just 11 years old when he was
cast as the orphaned boy with magic powers. He
said in the reunion on the set in Leavesden,
outside London, that he would always be happy to
talk about the film.
"Every part of my life is connected to Potter
and to Leavesden. My first kiss is connected to
someone here, my first girlfriends were here.
... It all spirals out from the Potter set
somewhere," he said, according to advance
excerpts released on Monday.
Radcliffe recalls how he and Rupert Grint (Ron
Weasley) hated being told to grow their hair out
for a shaggier look in later films in the
series.
"We're like, 'No, no, no, no, no. You're not
leaving us like this? We're supposed to be
becoming teenagers and dating girls in this
film! That's not what it's going to be, is it?'
So, I think we were pretty devastated as we
realized that it was," he said.
Radcliffe, Grint, Watson (Hermione) and Columbus
are joined by actors Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid),
Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Gary Oldman
(Sirius Black), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix
Lestrange) and other cast members for the
reunion.
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 Watson said she was been
overwhelmed with emotion at the reunion after so
many years. "Some of us haven't
seen each other for years. So it's just been a
joy. An unexpected joy," she said.
Oldman said getting back together was a "weird
experience because you met them as kid, and now
some of them are married and they've got kids of
their own."
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
("Philosopher's Stone" in the UK) was released
in November 2001. The eight film franchise based
on J.K. Rowling's stories took in some $7.8
billion at the global box office.
Rowling does not make a personal appearance on
the reunion special but will show up in archive
footage. Rowling's opinions on transgender
issues in the last year have been a cause of
controversy, with some in the LGBTQ community
accusing her of transphobia.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard
Chang)
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