Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not anything special'

Daniel Radcliffe has insisted that anyone who took on the role of Harry Potter would have become famous.

Speaking in New York, the actor said that J.K. Rowling's books were already "a phenomenon" before he was cast in the role.

"Harry Potter was a phenomenon when I was 7 years old, that's when [the book] came out; it was a phenomenon before I was even remotely attached," Radcliffe told MovieLine.

"The reason I say is [because] I was speaking to the director of the first Twilight film, and she said she went to a reading... Stephenie Meyer was giving of the first Twilight book. This was before Robert Pattinson was cast. And she said the name Edward Cullen, and the audience went crazy at the name."

He continued: "I'm sure the reaction would be the same for Harry Potter at a J.K. Rowling reading. Whoever stepped into that was going to receive a certain amount of attention and - dare I say - adulation. Which is not, in my opinion, justified, because I know me and I'm not anything special or big to fuss about."

The 21-year-old recently made the annual Sunday Times Rich List with wealth of £48 million ($78.6 million).

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