Daniel Radcliffe Talks About 'December Boys'

And *gasp* his sex scene! I thought I would be over seeing Harry Potter sans clothes since the "Equus" photos came out, but for some reason he'll always be a little boy in glasses to me. He opened up to Movies Online recently:
On playing a Catholic:
I'm not religious at all. To be honest, I play a Catholic boy who grows up in a Catholic orphanage so there are obviously going to be a lot of Catholic themes. I mean, if I'm playing a Jewish boy, now we would be celebrating New Year. So it just varies to what the part is. It didn't really make any particular difference to me. Even though I'm not religious, I didn't object to it.

On doing an indie movie:
It just so happened that this was the best script I read and it was for an indie movie so I wanted to do something. But then again if I hadn't believed in this script, I wouldn't have done anything. I really wanted to do something in between Harry Potters 4 and 5, but if a script hadn't come along it was very important that I didn't just do something for the sake of doing it, you know?

On the movie's sex scene:
We started filming up there at 11 o'clock in the morning of December 23rd and we finished at 4:15 a.m. on Christmas Eve. So it was a very long day and we filmed the sex scene probably at about 8 o'clock that night so I wasn't too tired yet [laughs] luckily, but I was nervous. Definitely. Being the first love scene that I had ever done it was not exactly imposing but you were aware and you were thinking, "Oh God, what do I do? What don't I do?" So just stuff like that really and luckily Teresa (Palmer) was very, very good at helping me to just chill out and just have a laugh for it, that's what it was about.

On reading the last Harry Potter book:
There's a quote, I'm not going to take this into too pretentious a route through this next bit but there's a quote from Chekhov when he wrote to the woman who was the final love of his life, who he later married and I think died with, not that she died but he was with her when he died, and he addresses a letter to her and he says, "Hello, the last page of my life." Which seemed very appropriate to me reading this book, because he has been such a part of my life now. I've been with him through all my teen years, and you were suddenly aware that - “ I started reading it, it was wow, this is the last time I will take a journey with this character, and it was quite a special moment ...

He just keeps on impressing me! If I was years younger I would probably melt. :) I've watched the trailer for this movie and it looks really good. Is it on your must-see list?


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<a href="http://www.drunkn-munky.net">DrunknMunky</a> (not verified)DrunknMunky (not verified) said:

Harry Potter will always be a kid to me.

Dee (not verified)Dee (not verified) said:

What is UP with that poster? Cartoon bodies with big heads? Hello???

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