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| Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| Daniel Radcliffe goes nude in play Equus soon, semi nude photos enrage parents |
Well well. Our favourite little actor boy Daniel Radcliffe has all grown up, and to celebrate the fact, he has decided to do a nude scene in the remake of the play Equus. This is not a rumour.
In fact, what Harry Potter is going to do is to simulate a sex act while rising a horse! That is what we have come to hear. The original is a Tony award winning play, and it had full frontal nudity. So I guess this is great news for all the Daniel Radcliffe fans among the girls and gays around. There is no confirmation yet that the new version of the play Equus will be that faithful to the original.
Anyway, the immediate news is that the man / boy has gone ahead and done what some would say a tastefully done nude photo shoot. Starring opposite him in the said photoshoot is a white horse, and the pictures show a shirt-less Daniel Radcliffe, and the photos have been shot to look like he is wearing nothing below either.
At least one of the photographs show him with an apparently topless girl (who is shot from the back) and in that picture, he wears his trousers alright. In the next photo, the girl is holding him (she looks older than him by the way) from behind.
Radcliffe's spokesperson Vanessa Davies told Britain's the Daily Mail, "Daniel does not want to step away from 'Harry Potter' but he does want to show he is a rounded actor capable of very different roles. He has tremendous support from 'Harry Potter' fans." I think Daniel's spokesperson meant well-rounded, and not rounded. Anyway does not matter.
The play opens in London on February 27, at Gielgud Theatre. The play's producer, David Pugh, told the Daily Mail that Radcliffe had been rehearsing the nude scenes with co-star Joanne Christie for more than a week and had overcome his initial shyness. Well. I am not suer if the woman in the photographs is the said co-star, but again, it does not matter. I come from a place where people don't normally act or walk around nude, and I don't know how actors and actresses think either, so I have no idea what is the kind of shyness that is there today, and tomorrow vanishes and allows one to act nude on stage.
What I am waiting for the reaction of JK Rowling to this. It is not every day that the boy who started acting in your famous book when he was 11 grows up, and wants to do a nude role in a play. This is going to cause serious problems for parents who are worried about the impact of one of the kids' heroes deciding to go nude.
News sites are already reporting that parents of kids are emailing and posting messages in Harry Potter fan sites expressing their outrage at the semi-nude photographs that were printed, and the fact that a pop culture hero like a Harry Potter actor can suddenly go act nude.
More about Equus:
"Equus" opened in the West End in 1973 to controversy. It transferred to Broadway in 1974 with Peter Firth recreating his London role as stable boy Alan Strang and replacing Alec McCowen with Anthony Hopkins as the psychiatrist Martin Dysart. It won the 1975 Tony for Best Play and Firth was nominated as Best Actor in a play. (courtesy app.com) Click here to view the semi nude photos of Daniel Radcliffe
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posted by a correspondent @ 11:58 AM   |
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I really think that you the media is making way too much out of this. He is an actor and all actors seem to love the stage, this is supposed to be a magnificent play, let him alone and act in it
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First of all...i don't appreciate the comment about how the girls and GAYS(being the underlined word) will like the nudity. This is completely inappropriate. Secondly, he is doing what he loves to do which is act and i don't think it is anyone elses business other than his own. It's outragous that a person can't even make a discission with out others criticizing them. Shame on all of you for your lack of maturity
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Why is nudity such a problem. It's people like you that make it wrong to be nude or live life to the fullest. I can't believe that you waste your time criticizing others for something so idiotic when you should be looking and trying to fix your own life. No one is perfect. Leave it alone
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Daniel is an actor, that's what they do. being nude in not a bad thing.
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It is his choice to act in this role, I think it is silly to say that the woman who is acting along side him (looked much older than he)its not that big of a deal. there are many people who see someone much older than them in the nude.
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good on daniel.. i am happy to see that you have become a diverse young MAN, that the potter series is not the only thing you are indeed born for..good luck...besides if you've got it flaunt it...seems to me you have it
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I really think that you the media is making way too much out of this. He is an actor and all actors seem to love the stage, this is supposed to be a magnificent play, let him alone and act in it