Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes

[abraxan]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Susanne <siskiou at ...> wrote:
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> I sure hope people are going to be more interested in the
> actual play than see Daniel Radcliffe naked.
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> At this point I almost wish he had chosen a different
> venture for his fist stage appearance, so he could be sure
> people aren't just coming to see his body instead of his
> acting chops. ;)
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> Best regards,
>  Susanne                           mailto:siskiou at ...
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What everyone seems to be forgetting is that Dan's doing a love scene 
(at least one) in "December Boys" so parts of him (not the "bits" but 
perhaps his bum) will be shown there, quite possibly, just as is true 
of Rupert in "Driving Lessons."  The theaters in London don't hold 
THAT many people, and cameras are not allowed.  So the "exposure" 
(yeah, that's a pun, haha) he will be getting won't be widespread 
enough to damage him as Harry Potter, IMO.  I don't think WB would 
cooperate with that and if he'd already broken with WB for the future 
movies, I think we would've heard about it.  And things in England 
are just DIFFERENT from here.  There are nude male statues all over 
London.  Walking down the sidewalk, if you pass an apothecary (drug 
store) that offers acupuncture (not Boots, but some other kind of 
drug store - we never went in and I don't remember the name now), 
there are figurines of totally "endowed" (no Ken doll-"suggested 
anatomy" there!) men with colored dots showing acupuncture points.  
These are in the shop windows at the eye-level of a 3-year-old, right 
up against the glass.  I doubt there's a child in London who has any 
questions about what a man's "bits" look like.  Remember, it's 
Americans who are Puritanical, not Brits.

What I find interesting is that Dan said in a GOF interview that he 
couldn't see himself doing full-frontal nudity, and here he is a year 
later signing a contract that involves full-frontal nudity IN PERSON 
rather than on film, where his privacy can be protected at least a 
little during filming.  As serious an actor as he is, I suspect it 
was the role itself (and possibly Richard Griffiths talking to him 
about it) that tempted him.  I guess Dan has the courage of a Harry 
Potter, to consider doing such a thing for his first real (not one-
shot guest role) theater role.  JMO.

Lynda