Daniel Radcliffe has experienced the fan adoration and the pressures from screaming, albeit adoring, mobs of teens from his star-turn in the Harry Potter series, and he says “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson seems to be making all the right moves.
The Twilight actor, he says, appears to be dealing well with the pressures of fame. “I wouldn’t have any advice,” Radcliffe told the BBC. “He seems to be coping well.”
Radcliffe’s Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, also said Pattinson has “done amazingly.”
After two weeks of frenzied promotion for “New Moon,” Robert was spotted low-keying it in New York City over the weekend. He was seen at Megu, a Japanese restaurant in downtown Manhattan where he was said to be having dinner with costar Kristen Stewart.
He was wearing his caracteristic black hoodie and trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
Since appearing as vampire Edward Cullen in the “Twilight” film series, Pattinson has become a huge star. Radcliffe and the 23-year-old appeared together in the fourth Harry Potter film, 2005’s Goblet of Fire.
By then, Radcliffe was a certified star and Pattinson was still relatively unknown. He played Quidditch captain Cedric Diggory, who competes alongside Harry in the Triwizard tournament at Hogwarts school.
“I haven’t spoken to Robert since we saw each other at the opening of a gallery three years ago,” said Radcliffe. “We’ve been sort of exchanging advice through journalists, bizarrely.”
Over the past two weeks, however, Radcliffe has watched as thousands of screaming fans mobbed Rob and fellow cast mates Stewart and Taylor Lautner at launch events Twilight sequel “New Moon.”
“It is totally mad, when people are screaming and going absolutely insane for you,” Radcliffe said.
“Particularly with Robert — the amount of women that would jump on him – you have to keep it in some kind of perspective, by thinking ‘well, partly they like me and partly they are just attracted to the character,’” the Harry Potter star advised.
“As long as you don’t think ‘oh yeah, God they’re all doing this – I must be absolutely fantastic’. As long as you do that, you should be all right,” he said.
Grint told the BBC he had never been comfortable with getting recognized in the street.
“It’s never been normal. I’m slowly getting used to it, but it’s quite strange,” he told the BBC at a launch event for the “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” DVD, out in December.
Rob and crew recently finished shooting the third film in the vampire series, “Eclipse.” A fourth film based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novel, “Breaking Dawn,” will be heading into production soon.
Meanwhile, Radcliffe and Grint are currently filming the two-part finale “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” slated for release in 2010 and 2011.
