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When he first got cast as Harry Potter seven years ago, at age 11, Daniel Radcliffe was about the same height as his costars. Not any more. ''They're all taller than me now, which is annoying,'' he says with a grin on the set of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — the fifth film in the series. So does he have to stand on boxes or something? ''Well, I could. But I'm going to have a very complex series of trenches dug. That way all my castmates can walk in them when they're doing a scene with me.''

He's joking, of course — part of his surprisingly impish sense of humor. (To see it in full flower, check out Radcliffe in the guest spot he did on Ricky Gervais' Extras). When it comes to acting, however, Radcliffe is a very serious, ambitious young man. In the course of two separate extended chats — one in September 2006 and another in May 2007 during his ballyhooed run in a stage revival of the drama Equus — EW got Radcliffe's takes on all sorts of life and career issues, from his own schooling to the challenges of appearing nude onstage to why he thinks Harry Potter is a little bit like Jesus.