'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' finishes filming; Daniel Radcliffe says shooting last movies 'sad'

Filming has wrapped for the final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is to be released in two parts, with the first coming out on November 19 and the second on July 15, 2011.

"Everyone was really devastated. It was really, really sad," Daniel Radcliffe, who has played the young wizard since the first movie, based on the books by J.K. Rowling, hit theaters in 2001, told the Associated Press. "Were crying quite a lot."

Radcliffe, 20, added that ending his role, which he has played since he was about 12, was "a weird, weird feeling."

The British actor made his comments on Sunday at the 2010 Tony Awards, during which he and actress Katie Holmes presented the best featured actress in a play award to Scarlett Johansson. (Check out a full list of Tony Award winners!)

Radcliffe has kept busy throughout the past few years when he was not filming one of the eight Harry Potter films in the series.

Radcliffe performed in London's West End theatre district and on Broadway in the the play Equus and plans to return to New York next spring to star in a revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"

He is also filming a movie called The Journey is the Destination, which tells of the life of photojournalist Dan Eldon, who was killed in Somalia in 1993 at age 22. the film is set for release in 2011.

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