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Daniel Radcliffe on playing a gay man and life after Harry Potter

Daniel Radcliffe talks to Out magazine about playing Allan Ginsberg and breaking away from his most famous role.

Now that Harry Potter is over, Daniel Radcliffe is faced with the task of having to prove he has longevity so that he won’t forever be known just as “the boy who played the boy who lived”. We have a sneaking suspicion he might just do it...

In his new film Kill Your Darling Radcliffe plays poet Allan Ginsberg. Speaking in Out magazine about playing a gay man, he says: “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.”

Talking about life after Harry Potter, he admits that it does feel a little odd for it to be over. “I’ve always said that it’s a long process, and in a way it may be a lifelong one,” he says. “It’s about proving to people that I’m in this for the long haul, and that I wasn’t just looking to get as famous as I could for as long as I could and ride that out. I love almost every aspect of this industry and I want to be in it, and if I could drop dead on a film set at 80, that’s how I’d want to go.”

Despite being one of the most successful series of films of all time, Radcliffe confesses that he couldn’t watch himself in them. “I certainly wouldn’t watch number three, I wouldn’t watch the first two, I wouldn’t watch four,” he says. “I might watch five. I definitely wouldn’t watch six.”

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Posted by Amy Power.

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