Daniel Radcliffe has denied claims he will replace Ali G comic Sacha Baron Cohen in a film about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.
Rumours began to surface in July after Borat actor Baron Cohen left the project because of creative differences with the rock band's surviving members.
However, Radcliffe, 24, said: "There’s no truth to it at all.
"It’s one of those very, very funny things: it came out of a story in the Daily Star and then you see newspapers like The Guardian using The Star as their source, and it grows and grows until it's 'Daniel Radcliffe playing Freddie Mercury!', which I was never going to do."
The Harry Potter star said he agreed with those who claimed he would not be suited to the role.
"Everyone on the internet who I presume is saying I'm totally wrong for the part is correct," he told Empire magazine.
"I am completely wrong for the part!"
He added: "This is the kind of thing that happens to me and it happens to Emma [Watson] with multiple Fifty Shades of Grey things.
"When somebody has column inches to fill, they just sub in one of our names."
Radcliffe has already ruled out appearing in JK Rowling’s new film based on the Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
"Needless to say I wouldn't be involved, and I guess none of the others will be, but I know nothing about it," he said earlier this month.
The new film, which will start 70 years before Harry Potter’s adventures in The Philosopher’s Stone, will feature Newt Scamander, the fictional author of the textbook.
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