Wednesday July 15, 2009

Daniel Radcliffe has addressed the rivalry that’s brewing between Harry Potter and the Twilight film franchises — insisting it’s been created by the media.

The actor — who plays the famous boy wizard in the films based on the books by J.K. Rowling — is adamant the feud rumors have been created to cause headlines.

“It’s very funny,” Dan, 19, told MovieFone. “It’s very much like the Lord of the Rings rivalry, in that it was a rivalry mainly built up by the media, for the media. I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they’re all really cool. Did we talk about the rivalry? Did we [ever]. Having Robert Pattinson be in both films is quite funny. I’ve never even seen Twilight, to be perfectly honest with you, and it’s actually really interesting to me.

“Being such a central part of the Potter thing, being so in the middle of it all, I have no idea how the rest of the world sees the Potter franchise, which is why it’s quite interesting for me to watch the Twilight franchise explode globally and have some sense of how people must view us.”

“I’ve nothing but good things to say at Rob,” Radcliffe added. “I’ve worked with him. I won’t pretend to know him really well or anything. It’s interesting because people assume that because I’m famous I know all famous people. And so people come up to me on the street and say, ‘Do you know Rob Pattinson? What’s he like?’ And I say, ‘Well, he’s very nice. I haven’t seen him in four years, but he’s doing very, very well for himself and good luck to him, I hope he’s doing alright’.”

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