TORONTO, Ont. - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is in town tonight to attend the Toronto premier of his new film, "The Woman in Black."
Fans lined up for hours in the cold outside the Scotiabank Theatre to catch a glimpse of the star.
Radcliffe plays lead character Arthur Kipps in the thriller about a vengeful ghost who terrorizes the townspeople of a remote village.
This is the actor's first film role since the release of the final installment of the Harry Potter films.
One girl who had been lined up outside the theatre since 9 a.m., told 680News she hopes she will be able to see the star as someone other than the boy wizard.
"I think that I can see him as other people but he's been Harry Potter for ten years and I think I'll always see him as Harry Potter. But I still love him," she said.
Evan, who lined up at 6 a.m., told 680News he has never missed a single premier for any of the Harry Potter films and even travelled to New York to see Daniel Radcliffe on stage. He hopes this time he will finally be able to meet the actor.
"That's the hope. I don't know how realistic that is so I'm trying to push that hope down but I'm getting giddy talking about it so, yeah, that's the hope," he said.
Radcliffe, who walked the red carpet, told 680News he felt a bit of pressure to choose a film different from Potter.
"You want to make a good choice and you want to make a good film but it's not so much that you're not constantly thinking - is this different enough. I think I would shut myself off to a lot of good parts potentially like that. So it's not that I think about it like that but it certainly has to be different enough to feel like I'm stretching myself," he explained.
He said he chose this to be his first post Potter project because of the story.
"It was the first thing that I kind of gravitated towards. Obviously it can be either the part or the director, and those things were a factor, but mainly I wanted to be a part of telling this story. It's so compelling and so thrilling and genuinely scary," he said.
Radcliffe added that he is a big fan of horror films.
"The one I've seen the most is Dracula. I was such a fan of Peter Cushing in that. All my friends wanted to be Christopher Lee and I wanted to be Peter Cushing."
In "The Woman in Black," Radcliffe plays a single father to a young boy, who is played by his real life godson.