Yesterday Warner Brothers held a luncheon in New York City to recognize the end of the Harry Potter series, and several big players were present.

Director David Yates, producer David Heyman, and actors Dan Radcliffe and Alan Rickman were both present. In addition to video of Yates and Heyman making speeches, The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Radcliffe.

See video of the two speeches below, followed by THR’s interview with Radcliffe where he talks about the issues with fame.

THR: Is that something that was very jarring or that you were able to deal with well?

Dan Radcliffe: You know what’s interesting is that there was, like, a year when there was nothing. That first year we were announced, and then we were filming for a year, so nobody recognized us — we weren’t on the streets enough to be recognized, so we had, kind of, a year. I think that the thing about celebrity is that it gives you– There are, obviously, upsides to it, but I’d say that the upsides, for me, are the upsides that come from my job rather than from the celebrity aspect. I mean, celebrity is horrible — that’s the truth, is that it’s a ghastly, vile thing. Everything that’s wrong about it is summed up in this story: I was with a few people the other day recceing possible locations for a film I might be doing, and we were at a university, and there was a conference going on upstairs. We were looking around this room, just for locations and stuff, and this guy rushed out to me and said, “Oh, hi! I’m” so-and-so “from” such-and-such — a fairly prestigious magazine — and said, “I’m here doing a conference and I was wondering if you had any comment on homophobia in” — I think — “Uganda?” And I went, “I don’t. No, because (a) that’s not why I’m here, and (b) you have a room full of people gathered together today specifically to talk about that. You shouldn’t care about my opinion; I am not informed. Just because I am ‘somebody’ doesn’t mean I am qualified or even interesting.” Like, people say about actors spouting their political views and things like that, it’s fine if actors want to talk about that stuff, but don’t expect people to take your opinion seriously, you know? I mean, I think celebrity is an unfortunate byproduct. You know, most actors hate being called celebrities, but we are — like, we have to accept that, you know — and we have a public image, and all that stuff. But, yeah, it’s something that, on the whole, we’d rather not have to worry about.

You can read more with Radcliffe right here.