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Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> may have taken on the role of wizard, but he wasn\u2019t going to take on a remake of The Wizard of Oz.<\/a> In the latest episode of the web series Hot Ones<\/a>, Radcliffe recalled that prospect as \u201cone of the worst ideas\u201d he has ever heard. \u201cDuring Potter, somebody came to us and, I think, asked \u2014 like, they wanted to cast all three of us \u2014 me, Emma [Watson<\/a>] and Rupert<\/a> [Grint] \u2014 in a remake of Wizard of Oz, where Emma was Dorothy<\/a>, I can\u2019t remember what Rupert was, and I just remember I was going to be the [Cowardly Lion<\/a>], but also, he knew karate.<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe may have taken on the role of wizard, but he wasn\u2019t going to take on a remake of The Wizard of Oz. In the latest episode of the web series Hot Ones, Radcliffe recalled that prospect as \u201cone of the worst ideas\u201d he has ever heard. \u201cDuring Potter, somebody came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Daniel-Radcliffe-Emma-Watson-Rupert-Grint-Were-Pitched-\u2018Wizard.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294109,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294107\/revisions\/2294109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}