Daniel Radcliffe dabbles in magic again

Although he’s playing the antagonist in Now You See Me 2, Radcliffe wanted to make his character more than just that. Photos: GSC Movies

Perhaps the most curious thing about Daniel Radcliffe’s involvement in Now You See Me 2 (NYSM2) is that his character isn’t the greatest magician on the planet. Radcliffe, after all, is best known as Harry Potter, the boy wizard, in the extremely successful Harry Potter series – a big part of which is about magic.

But in NYSM2, Radcliffe plays the antagonist to the film’s greatest magicians – or, as they call themselves, The Four Horsemen (portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and newcomer Lizzy Caplan). Radcliffe’s character Walter Mabry is a tech prodigy who forcibly recruits them to pull off an impossible heist using their mad skills.