[HPFGU-Movie] Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes

[Karen]

For an actor, it's a peach of a role and can only be done for a  
certain period of your life. It's an award winning play and not put  
on often.  I hope he does well. It could really REALLY help him down  
the road.

On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:41 AM, Valerie Flowe wrote:

> WOW! I'M ASTONISHED that Dan would do something like this. It does
> sound quite controversial and a bit creepy (sex on a horse, blinding
> horses with a spike?!) It certainly is a departure from his squeaky
> clean HP role, but I can't help feeling that that is swinging too far
> the other way. Sorry, I know I'm sounding puritanical...but he's still
> only 17! [Of course I had a problem with the movie 'The Squid and the
> Whale' when the younger brother, 11 or so, was masturbating in the
> school library and spreading his 'stuff' on the library books and  
> other
> kids' lockers. So I guess I'm just squeamish that way.]
> Though I must say I wouldn't mind being in the audience to see how Dan
> does with the performance...ok, not gonna go there!
> Valerie
>
> On Jul 27, 2006, at 9:40 PM, eggplant107 wrote:
>
>> From the Sunday Times
>>  =====
>>
>>  The Times July 28, 2006
>>
>>  Harry Potter ditches the glasses . . . and all his clothes
>>
>>  By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter
>>
>>  HE found fame wearing wizards' gowns and schoolboy scarves, but  
>> Daniel
>>  Radcliffe has chosen to make his debut on the London stage wearing
>>  nothing at all.
>>
>>  The 17-year-old actor, who is now a multimillionaire thanks to the
>>  Harry Potter films, has been cast as the stable boy in Equus, Peter
>>  Shaffer's controversial drama about a boy's erotic relationship with
>>  horses.
>>
>>  Peter Thompson, a spokesman for the production, said that Radcliffe
>>  would appear in the play, scheduled for early 2007 in a West End
>> theatre.
>>
>>  He will play Alan Strang, a psychologically disturbed youth who is
>>  interviewed by a psychiatrist after he blinds six horses with a  
>> metal
>>  spike.
>>
>>  The role requires the actor to simulate sexual pleasure while riding
>>  naked on his horse. It is a departure for Radcliffe, whose career  
>> has
>>  been dominated by his part as JK Rowling's teenage wizard. He  
>> recently
>>  finished filming December Boys, in which he plays one of four  
>> orphans
>>  hoping to be adopted.
>>
>>  Richard Griffiths, who plays Harry Potter's curmudgeonly uncle in  
>> the
>>  films, is in talks to take the psychiatrist role. It would be a
>>  triumphant return to the London stage for the actor, who won a Tony
>>  award for his lead role in The History Boys.
>>
>>  Last week, the pair were filming Harry Potter and the Order of the
>>  Phoenix, the fifth in the series.
>>
>>  Shaffer's work caused a sensation when it was first staged at the
>>  National Theatre in 1973. It transferred to Broadway, where it  
>> starred
>>  Anthony Hopkins, and ran for 1,200 performances, making it one of  
>> the
>>  most successful plays in New York history. It was made into a
>>  Hollywood film starring Richard Burton in 1977.
>>
>>  The playwright, whose works include Amadeus and The Royal Hunt of  
>> the
>>  Sun, based the story on a real-life incident in which a boy
>>  inexplicably maimed six horses.
>>
>>  It encompasses sexual awakening, Greek mythology and religion. The
>>  psychiatrist attempts to explain the boy's actions, but must  
>> confront
>>  his own demons in the process.
>>
>>  The play was the subject of controversy recently after John Owen, a
>>  drama teacher at Ysdgol Gyfun Rhydfelen in Pontypridd, was  
>> accused of
>>  sexual abuse after staging it as a school play. He committed suicide
>>  the day before he was due to appear in court.
>>
>>  A subsequent report by the National Assembly for Wales called for a
>>  ban on Equus in schools.
>>
>>  Radcliffe's agent did not respond to inquiries last night.
>
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