Daniel Radcliffe’s new movie, “Kill Your Darlings,” in which he portrays?Beat poet Alan Ginsberg as a college student, premiered Friday night at the Sundance Film Festival and was met with?gasping astonishment over its explicit gay sex scenes. In the movie, Daniel, as Alan,?uses drugs, masturbates, and has straight-up gay sex.
In interviews about his performance, Daniel has expressed?confusion as to why?it’s?causing such a flutter. He points out that heterosexual?sex scenes are prevalent, to say the least, and?gay sex scenes are not so terribly rare anymore even in mainstream films.
He also points out that?he was stark raving naked on stage and fancying horses in Equus a few years ago.?All good points, but what he seems to forget is that he’s Harry Potter. He’s everyone’s adorable bespectacled little wizard getting railed up the ass on camera.
To have trouble distinguishing Daniel from Harry Potter is not a slight to Daniel as an actor. He’s a lovely actor.?It comes to this: Harry Potter is a seminal figure in popular culture and Daniel’s image is inextricably bound to him. He can perm?his hair and wear slightly different eyeglasses, but he spent so much time riding that broomstick, that it’s odd to watch him?riding something else (if you’ll pardon the crass expression).
In a talk with MTV News, Daniel said:
“It’s interesting that it’s deemed shocking. For me, there’s something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. We’ve seen gay sex scenes before. I don’t know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene.”
Again, it’s really not the gay angle that’s shocking. It’s that it’s Harry Potter.?If there were sequels to Harry Potter, maybe we would find Harry as a homosexual. Why not? And who cares? The fact is that it’s simply tricky for viewers to accept natural sexuality from someone associated with a children’s series. And, though Daniel himself seems to prefer women in real life, it’s not the least bit difficult to imagine him as a gay man … probably because he’s so petite.
Eventually, Daniel’s overt connection to Harry Potter?will pass … though possibly not until he’s 40 or 50 … and then he can have all the gay or straight sex he wants and masturbate up a storm?on camera, and no one will bat an eyelash.
Sarah says
What on earth has height got to do with sexuality?
uzmadaniel says
i don’t now what you do in movie but i just say peple love you becaue of your image because your movies is not like the other movies you are deffrent the others every one thinin that you are the harry you think like harry but after this movie you are change for us you become gay for us and good news all the gay love you so much. take care may be