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Harry Potter alumni Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are lining up leading roles in two new versions of well-known tales: Cinderella and Frankenstein respectively.

Watson, fresh from the well-liked teen flick The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is being courted for Disney's live-action version of the Cinderella fairy story, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Watson, 22, had a somewhat tentative start to her post-Potter acting career, taking on a TV movie of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes and a small role in My Week With Marilyn as she appeared to concentrate more on fashion-related work. But the success of Perks has seen her sign up to more substantial projects: she has a leading role in Sofia Coppola's celeb-thief drama The Bling Ring, plays herself opposite James Franco in Evan Goldberg's metatextual comedy This Is the End, and is attached to Guillermo del Toro's Beauty and the Beast.

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Cinderella is seen very much in the mould of Disney's Alice in Wonderland and Oz the Great and Powerful, both highly visual reworkings of familiar tales. Cate Blanchett has already been cast to play the wicked stepmother and filming is likely to be under way later this year, whether or not Watson takes the role.

Radcliffe, meanwhile, is set to play Igor in Frankenstein, a new take on Mary Shelley's classic gothic horror novel to be directed by Scots film-maker Paul McGuigan.

The hunchbacked servant/lab assistant – most memorably portrayed by Marty Feldman in Mel Brooks's parody Young Frankenstein – is the centre of McGuigan's film, even though the character does not appear in Shelley's original. According to the Wrap, it will be a sci-fi take on this classic story about a creature produced through a scientific experiment, and Radcliffe's character is pathologically dirty and dressed in old clown's clothing.

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Radcliffe recently proved his chops in period horror with the Susan Hill adaptation The Woman in Black, and will next be seen as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Sundance hit Kill Your Darlings.Navigating teenage years is pretty hard for most people, though luckily Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson had each other's backs as they grew up on the set of

, the Harry Potter actor recalled going through those awkward adolescent times, revealing that he and Watson gave each other dating tips.

The amount of prep and coaching Emma and I would give each other on texting to the opposite sex, he said. Like if she was texting a boy or I was texting a girl, I'd be like, 'She sent me this many kisses back, what do I do? This is a nightmare'.

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The Hermione Granger star described their relationship as like an older brother, younger sister thing, as Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) joked there were a lot of hormones flying around [on set].

Comparing it to real-life school, Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) admitted there were crushes and people went out with each other and broke up, just like we used to do in school.

Radcliffe added: That film is probably peak hormone, at least for me. It was exactly like you'd expect, especially since the fourth film had a bunch of hormonal teenagers anyway and bringing two massive groups of new people, all of them purposefully hot for the film.

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That film, yeah, it was all kicking off. [JK Rowling] wrote [Harry] very endearingly in those years and I felt it did not take a huge acting stretch for me to tap into my awkward nerdy teenage side.

One real crush that Watson had while making the movies was co-star Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), the actress admitting during the special that she fell in love with him while making

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