Wednesday 13 February 2013

Daniel Radcliffe: Homo The Brave

Those who know him only from Potter will be astonished by what he brings to the screen in Kill Your Darlings, a movie by first-time director John Krokidas in which Radcliffe plays a young Allen Ginsberg at a formative moment in his life. Based on a long-hidden murder case that brought Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs together at Columbia University, Krokidas has compared it to Capote in the way it focuses on a single event - in both cases a murder - as a transformative experience in the lives of the people around it...
Hollywood.com singled out the romantic relationship between Radcliffe and [Dane] DeHaan as the motor of the entire movie, “eventually swelling to a burst of passion.” For many, the unflinching scenes of gay sex were further evidence, if it was needed, of the distance Radcliffe has travelled in a few short years. “The Boy Wizard never pinned his knees behind his ears,” snickered The Hollywood Reporter - a harbinger, one suspects, of many such jokes to come. Radcliffe himself remains unfazed, saying only, “You never see a gay actor getting asked what it’s like to play straight - to my knowledge, at least, there is no difference in how heterosexual and homosexual people fall in love.”

Daniel Radcliffe interviewed in Out Magazine.
Though the last quote sounds "nice", I don't agree with it.
I agree with the journalist though that there's going to be a lot of sniggering at the bum jiggery.
But as Daniel's also playing gay, I bet there'll also be a lot of; "So brave..." 
Some people won't know whether to laugh or cry.

3 comments:

  1. "Though the last quote sounds "nice", I don't agree with it."

    How is our love being different, then??

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmlIz-tNfVQ

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  2. Don't straight men go gooey over girls who dive into pools?

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