Harry Potter's star Daniel Radcliffe led the famous film series stars to pay tributes to the late Dame Maggie Smith, the film's Professor McGonagall, who passed away on Friday.
Radcliffe said in a statement to the PA: “The first time I met Maggie Smith I was nine years old and we were reading through scenes for David Copperfield, which was my first job.
“I knew virtually nothing about her other than that my parents were awestruck at the fact that I would be working with her.
“The other thing I knew about her was that she was a dame, so the first thing I asked her when we met was ‘would you like me to call you Dame?’, at which she laughed and said something to the effect of ‘don’t be ridiculous!’.
“I remember feeling nervous to meet her and then her putting me immediately at ease.”
Radcliffe added that Dame Maggie was “incredibly kind to me on that shoot, and then I was lucky enough to go on working with her for another 10 years on the Harry Potter films”.
He continued: “She was a fierce intellect, a gloriously sharp tongue, could intimidate and charm in the same instant and was, as everyone will tell you, extremely funny.
“I will always consider myself amazingly lucky to have been able to work with her, and to spend time around her on set.
“The word legend is overused but if it applies to anyone in our industry then it applies to her. Thank you Maggie.”
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