'Harry Potter' Star Daniel Radcliffe Has Never Seen 'Star Wars'

ABC/Lou Rocco(LONDON) -- He may have been born 12 years after the movie was in theaters, but one would figure at some point in his young life, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe would have caught up with the original Star Wars movies. Not so, he tells Moviefone.

Because the Potter series is often compared to the Star Wars saga -- and the fact that both series share millions of fans -- Radcliffe seemed reluctant to admit it. "I know. Yeah, I know. It's really bad," he says, before adding: "I saw The Phantom Menace, and everyone's like, "You saw that one! You didn't see the originals?!" I know! I was ten! I didn't know any better!"

Radcliffe explains he will probably catch up to George Lucas' films on Blu-ray. "And I know that I would love them because I'm a geek -- so I would definitely get into them." The actor continued, "...any kind of a franchise where a world is created will then engender a generation of nerds. Fantastic! Nerds are the best things in the world. I think of myself as a nerd. What was the Bill Gates thing? 'Be nice to nerds, you'll probably be working for them one day.' But I think the difference is because Potter started out as a book, it's created a generation of literary nerds in a way that Star Wars perhaps didn't. But, basically...I do think of Potter as being this generation's Star Wars. It's something that an entire generation has lost themselves in and it's a meticulously created, detailed world."

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