‘Harry Potter’ star Jason Isaacs claims the young cast drank ‘at an industrial pace’

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“Harry Potter” movies, said that the young cast was drinking at “an industrial pace.” The franchise starred Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Tom Felton. “It was always strange going back to the films, where they were a couple years older than the last time I saw them, and I would treat them how they had been previously,” Isaacs, 60, told The Post while promoting his BritBox miniseries “Archie,” where he played Cary Grant. “So, treating a 14-year-old like a 12-year-old wasn’t great,” he said. “And, when they were 18, and we treated them like they still weren’t allowed to smoke or drink — and, they were doing both at an industrial pace — that was odd.” Radcliffe, 34, has previously spoken about struggling with drinking problems in his youth.

Radcliffe — who recently became a new dad when he welcomed a son in April with his longtime partner, Erin Darke, 39 — previously said he has been sober since 2010.

During a 2020 BBC Radio 4 interview on “Desert Island Discs,” Radcliffe said, “If I went out and if I got drunk, I’d suddenly be aware of there being interest in that because it’s not just a drunk guy, it’s ‘Oh, Harry Potter’s getting drunk in the bar …'”And his way of dealing with that, he said, “was just to drink more or get more drunk, so I did a lot of that for a few years.”“A lot of drinking that happened toward the end of Potter and for a little bit after it finished, it was panic, a little bit not knowing what to do next — not being comfortable enough in who I was to remain sober,” he said, adding that his family and friends gave him “enough perspective on my life” to get sober.

In 2012, Radcliffe said that drinking had been “unhealthy and damaging” to his body and social life. “I was living in constant.