Daniel Radcliffe: Michael Caine was my role model

'

Harry Potter

' star Daniel Radcliffe says he tried to be become like veteran actor Michael Caine. The 26-year-old actor, who shared screen space with Caine in '

Now You See Me 2

,' for the first time, said he tried to emulate him even before meeting him in person, reported Femalefirst.

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"On my first Harry Potter film I was working with friends of Michaels who told me stories about him, they said he walked onto the set and by the end of that day he learned everyone's name. I tried to do that as best I can as well.

"It's about being really effortless, no ego, I think way before I ever met him, I had modelled myself on him a little bit," Radcliffe said. The '

Victor Frankenstein

' actor said he was amazed by '

The Dark Knight

' star's talent and by him as a person. "Jesus, I was in awe the whole time, he could not be more everything you want him to be."
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