Radcliffe channeled his inner Harry Potter during his backstage encounter with U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu.
at the Milan Cortina Olympics was out of this world. So, too, was her run-in with the most famous wizard who ever lived. Fantasy and reality collided when the newly minted U.S. figure skating gold medalist met the Chosen One and Hogwarts’ Triwizard Champion, Harry Potter—played by the ever-talented Daniel Radcliffe.
The twoLiu, equally starstruck by Radcliffe, then tried to give him her gold medal to wear around his neck.“Obviously, I wasn’t going to ask, but yeah!” Radcliffe, ever the gentleman, replied. He then took the medal and was about to drape it over his head when his Gryffindor blood stopped him. “You know what, I can’t wear it. I’ll hold it, I’ll hold it. Wearing it feels like stolen valor,” Radcliffe said.“You can see the exact moment he started to put it on and realized how weird it felt. You're a good man, Elijah Wood,” one TikTok user wrote. “10 points to Gryffindor!” another comment read. “It’s one of her horcruxes now,” another TikTok user wrote. (LiuRadcliffe/Potter’s noble instincts aside, it was truly precious to see the two of them link up even if it was just a chance encounter. Liu brought America immense pride with her radiant free skate performance that ended up winning gold in Milan; Radcliffe delivered one of the most iconic acting performances spanning a decade to immortalize The Boy Who Lived. You can’t deny there’s a certain magic found in two beloved heroes gushing over each other and celebrating each other’s accomplishments.Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.
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