Cast of ‘Now You See Me 2’ return with bigger tricks and villain

NEW YORK: After pulling off a large-scale bank heist masked as a complex magic trick in 2013´s "Now You See Me," the cast are back again with new tricks and sleight of hand, this time with a little "Harry Potter" magic.

"Now You See Me 2," out in US theaters on Friday, picks up three years after the 2013 film and shows the ´Four Horsemen´ magicians use their illusions to try and stop a sinister tech tycoon and his unethical practices.

The cast, which includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo and Lizzy Caplan, were put through ´magic camp´ in order to learn sleight of hand and other tricks to perform on screen.

"It was literally like three card tables set up in a dirty production room covered with half eaten food," Ruffalo said. "But the idea of ´magic camp´ is like a great idea and I think that idea could be huge," Harrelson quipped.

Harrelson, who plays Horseman Merritt ´The Hermit´ McKinney, showed off his magic skills at the film´s New York press event by guessing the card a reporter picked out of a deck.

Former "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the villainous Walter Mabry, proudly demonstrated a card trick he learned during filming.

"We´re not like a shoot-em-up (movie)," Radcliffe said. "There are some amazing sequences that involve the sleight of hand and the magic."

Radcliffe, who has eight films´ worth of magic experience as boy wizard Harry Potter, fondly looked back on the franchise that catapulted him to fame.

"If I was getting angsty about being recognized as Potter, or being associated with Potter I think I would waste a ton of energy like worrying about that. People are always going to associate me with it and I´m very happy about that," he said.