BRITISH actors Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy held a news conference in Mexico City to promote their upcoming film “Victor Frankenstein.”

    The “Harry Potter” star indicated he has formed a strong friendship with McAvoy while shooting the film.

    “I had grown up seeing James in a lot of stuff and really, I don’t know, so I think for the first two weeks or so I have to slightly work on being able to not be like a fan.”

    The science fiction horror drama is based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley’s namesake novel.

    The 36-year-old McAvoy says he had enough freedom to interpret his character as he wished, though the classic novel was adapted to film on several occasions.

    “I’ve read the book before I got the part and then after I got the part I read the book again but even then I felt like the script was doing something quite different from the book in terms of who Victor was, definitively took a lot of its sort of inspiration from the book in terms of obsession and mania and a sort of unhealthy, mentally ill approach to science.”

    The film is scheduled to hit big screens Nov. 25 in the United States.

    (SD-Agencies)