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• DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON FILMG THE GAY-SEX SCENE KILL YOUR DARLGS: I DON’T SEE IT AS A RISKBY BENT MARCOCTOBER 1, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPLAYG A LLEGE-AGE ALLEN GSBERG KILL YOUR DARLGS, DANIEL RADCLIFFE PORTRAYED THE BEAT POET JT BLOSSOMG AS A PERSON, EXPERIMENTG WH LIFE, DGS, AND SEX. BUT THE TOUGHT THG ABOUT THE ROLE WAS HAVG TO CRY. “WHENEVER YOU, AS AN ACTOR, SEE A SCRIPT A LE LIKE ALLEN WEEPS OPENLY, YOU ALWAYS GO, OH, J, BEE YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE TO CRY,” THE ACTOR SAID AT A CEMA SOCIETY SCREENG ON MONDAY. “YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE N DO THAT ON CUE. THEY JT FUCKG N DO . I NNOT. SO TOOK SOME WORKG UP TO ,” HE SAID.BUT ONCE THE TEARS BEGAN FLOWG, THEY WERE HARD TO END. “ONCE I STARTED, I WAS DANGER OF NOT STOPPG,” RADCLIFFE TOLD VF DAILY AT THE PARIS THEATRE MANHATTAN. “IT WAS A PRETTY THARTIC MOMENT TO DO THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND REALLY—AT THE RISK OF SOUNDG PRETENT—FEEL . IT WAS LOVELY.”ALTHOUGH RADCLIFFE’S GAY-SEX SCENE THE FILM HAS GENERATED A LOT OF BUZZ, THAT WASN’T DIFFICULT TO DO. “I DON’T REALLY SEE THE SEX SCENE THIS FILM AS A RISK. IT JT WAS A PART OF THE MOVIE,” HE SAID. “I TOTALLY UNRSTAND THAT PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TALK ABOUT , BEE ’S SALAC AND WHATEVER, BUT THE THG THAT WAS MUCH MORE NERVE WRACKG TO ME ABOUT THIS FILM WAS HTG ALL THOSE BIG EMOTNAL BEATS.”CO-STAR DANE DEHAAN HAD A DIFFERENT TYPE OF THARSIS WHILE SHOOTG THE FILM. “IT WAS FELY FUN KILLG DEXTER,” SAID DEHAAN, WHO PLAYS LUCIEN CARR, MURRER OF DAVID KAMMERER (MICHAEL C. HALL).THE TWO ACTORS WERE NOT LGHG IRONILLY WHILE SHOOTG THE MURR SCENE. “WE WERE TAKG OURSELV PRETTY SERLY,” DEHAAN SAID. “WE WEREN’T THKG, NOW I’M KILLG DEXTER. LOOKG BACK ON , THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED,” HE ADD, LGHG.AS THE MOVIE IS BASED ON A TE STORY ABOUT THE BEGNGS OF THE BEAT MOVEMENT, WHEN GSBERG, CARR, AND JACK KEROUAC MET AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, DEHAAN WENT TO THE SOURCE FOR REARCH. “THE SCRIPT IS WRTEN REALLY WELL, AND ’S A REALLY GOOD CLUE TO WHO THE CHARACTER IS,” HE SAID. “BUT ALSO, ACTUALLY, COLUMBIA LIBRARY HAS A LOT OF RRPONNCE BETWEEN GSBERG AND KEROUAC, AND GSBERG’S JOURNAL, WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT LUCIEN, AND GIV A LOT OF CLU ABOUT WHO HE WAS AND THE THGS HE DID, SO I WENT BACK THERE.”RECENTLY, DEHAAN TOOK ON A DIFFERENT KD OF ROLE, AS A MOL PRADA’S SPRG-SUMMER AD MPAIGN. “ONE THG DO IS AFFORDS ME TO NTUE DOG PROJECTS THAT I’M TLY PASSNATE ABOUT AND THAT KD OF THG,” DEHAAN TOLD VF DAILY. “MY WIFE IS JEALO ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF PRADA MY CLOSET,” HE SAID, LGHG.AFTER THE SCREENG, AT A JOHNSTON & MURPHY–HOSTED PARTY AT THE NEWLY OPENED TAO DOWNTOWN, DEHAAN’S WIFE, ANNA WOOD, NFIRMED THIS. “WE HAVE A PRADA CLOSET NOW—OF URSE I’M JEALO,” SHE SAID. “BUT, YOU KNOW, ALL GOOD TIME.”MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINBENT MARC
• DANIEL RADCLIFFE GAY LOVE SCENE IN ‘KILL YOUR DARLGS’ HAS FANS EXCED AFTER SUNDANCE PREMIERE
• DANIEL RADCLIFFE SOUNDS OFF ON WHY BRISH MEN 'SEEM GAY'
• DANE DEHAAN STARS AS A TROUBLED GAY TEEN IN HBO'S 'IN TREATMENT'
• DANIEL RADCLIFFE HAS A HOT MOMENT WH ON-SCREEN GAY PARTNER DANE DEHAAN! SEE IT HERE!
• IS DANE DEHAAN GAY?

DANIEL RADCLIFFE ON FILMG THE GAY-SEX SCENE KILL YOUR DARLGS: I DON’T SEE IT AS A RISKBY BENT MARCOCTOBER 1, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEPLAYG A LLEGE-AGE ALLEN GSBERG KILL YOUR DARLGS, DANIEL RADCLIFFE PORTRAYED THE BEAT POET JT BLOSSOMG AS A PERSON, EXPERIMENTG WH LIFE, DGS, AND SEX. BUT THE TOUGHT THG ABOUT THE ROLE WAS HAVG TO CRY. “WHENEVER YOU, AS AN ACTOR, SEE A SCRIPT A LE LIKE ALLEN WEEPS OPENLY, YOU ALWAYS GO, OH, J, BEE YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE TO CRY,” THE ACTOR SAID AT A CEMA SOCIETY SCREENG ON MONDAY. “YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE N DO THAT ON CUE. THEY JT FUCKG N DO . I NNOT. SO TOOK SOME WORKG UP TO ,” HE SAID.BUT ONCE THE TEARS BEGAN FLOWG, THEY WERE HARD TO END. “ONCE I STARTED, I WAS DANGER OF NOT STOPPG,” RADCLIFFE TOLD VF DAILY AT THE PARIS THEATRE MANHATTAN. “IT WAS A PRETTY THARTIC MOMENT TO DO THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND REALLY—AT THE RISK OF SOUNDG PRETENT—FEEL . IT WAS LOVELY.”ALTHOUGH RADCLIFFE’S GAY-SEX SCENE THE FILM HAS GENERATED A LOT OF BUZZ, THAT WASN’T DIFFICULT TO DO. “I DON’T REALLY SEE THE SEX SCENE THIS FILM AS A RISK. IT JT WAS A PART OF THE MOVIE,” HE SAID. “I TOTALLY UNRSTAND THAT PEOPLE ARE GOG TO TALK ABOUT , BEE ’S SALAC AND WHATEVER, BUT THE THG THAT WAS MUCH MORE NERVE WRACKG TO ME ABOUT THIS FILM WAS HTG ALL THOSE BIG EMOTNAL BEATS.”CO-STAR DANE DEHAAN HAD A DIFFERENT TYPE OF THARSIS WHILE SHOOTG THE FILM. “IT WAS FELY FUN KILLG DEXTER,” SAID DEHAAN, WHO PLAYS LUCIEN CARR, MURRER OF DAVID KAMMERER (MICHAEL C. HALL).THE TWO ACTORS WERE NOT LGHG IRONILLY WHILE SHOOTG THE MURR SCENE. “WE WERE TAKG OURSELV PRETTY SERLY,” DEHAAN SAID. “WE WEREN’T THKG, NOW I’M KILLG DEXTER. LOOKG BACK ON , THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED,” HE ADD, LGHG.AS THE MOVIE IS BASED ON A TE STORY ABOUT THE BEGNGS OF THE BEAT MOVEMENT, WHEN GSBERG, CARR, AND JACK KEROUAC MET AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSY, DEHAAN WENT TO THE SOURCE FOR REARCH. “THE SCRIPT IS WRTEN REALLY WELL, AND ’S A REALLY GOOD CLUE TO WHO THE CHARACTER IS,” HE SAID. “BUT ALSO, ACTUALLY, COLUMBIA LIBRARY HAS A LOT OF RRPONNCE BETWEEN GSBERG AND KEROUAC, AND GSBERG’S JOURNAL, WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT LUCIEN, AND GIV A LOT OF CLU ABOUT WHO HE WAS AND THE THGS HE DID, SO I WENT BACK THERE.”RECENTLY, DEHAAN TOOK ON A DIFFERENT KD OF ROLE, AS A MOL PRADA’S SPRG-SUMMER AD MPAIGN. “ONE THG DO IS AFFORDS ME TO NTUE DOG PROJECTS THAT I’M TLY PASSNATE ABOUT AND THAT KD OF THG,” DEHAAN TOLD VF DAILY. “MY WIFE IS JEALO ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF PRADA MY CLOSET,” HE SAID, LGHG.AFTER THE SCREENG, AT A JOHNSTON & MURPHY–HOSTED PARTY AT THE NEWLY OPENED TAO DOWNTOWN, DEHAAN’S WIFE, ANNA WOOD, NFIRMED THIS. “WE HAVE A PRADA CLOSET NOW—OF URSE I’M JEALO,” SHE SAID. “BUT, YOU KNOW, ALL GOOD TIME.”MOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINBENT MARC

”Although Radcliffe’s gay-sex scene the film has generated a lot of buzz, that wasn’t difficult to do. ) Neverthels, Radcliffe was willg to go all out — as evinced by a hilar story that Krokidas recently told Vulture as part of the se’s fascatg roundup of terviews wh directors about filmg love DeHaan and Daniel Radcliffe Kill Your Darlgs (Photo: Everett)“Allen Gsberg was one of the most renowned gay artists of the 20th century, and I felt that not cludg his sexualy as part of the story would be a crime, ” Krokidas said, explag why Kill Your Darlgs’ sex scen were so important to him.

Daniel Radcliffe's role "Kill Your Darlgs" is generatg massive buzz om fans exced to see the nu gay sex scene the film which premiered at Sundance on Friday.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE GAY LOVE SCENE IN ‘KILL YOUR DARLGS’ HAS FANS EXCED AFTER SUNDANCE PREMIERE

Daniel Radcliffe’s latt role “Kill Your Darlgs” is generatg massive buzz, not bee of his role as poet Allen Gsberg but for the nu gay love scene. Radcliffe go pletely nu for a gay sex scene wh a man the film, shar a kiss wh -star Dane DeHaan and has another sex scene wh a library clerk as his -star watch off the distance, MTV explic sex scen piqued tert om fans after “Kill Your Darlgs” premiered at Sundance on Friday, much to the 23-year-old actor’s nfn.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE SOUNDS OFF ON WHY BRISH MEN 'SEEM GAY'

We've seen gay sex scen before. I don't know why a gay sex scene should be any more shockg than a straight sex scene.

"What weird me out the most last night was people were askg me all the qutns about the gay sex scen. “Kill Your Darlgs, ” directed by John Krokidas, picts Gsberg’s journey to embrace his homosexualy as he be fatuated wh Lucien Carr, played by DeHaan, who eventually gets Gsberg volved a the buzz about the gay sex scene and ridual tert om the “Harry Potter” anchise is fe wh Radcliffe, who said he’s jt happy to have people seeg his film. Vulture wr:“Daniel Radcliffe has Sundance dienc buzzg for his work the John Krokidas directed 'Kill Your Darlgs' … While there's been plenty of chatter about the kiss both actors share — and the pivotal gay sex scene that Radcliffe has later the film — the role is most notable for how nvcgly Radcliffe is able to put Harry Potter behd him orr to disappear to a new character (albe one wh another set of distctive eyeglass).

” While Kunis do not return the fabor, the two share an credibly hot teractn the library stacks, before Saldana eventually adms that she is gay. Amerins are well-versed this show’s Logo spoff, but the origal “Queer As Folk” is a much more phy and precise take on a group of gay iends livg Manchter the late ’90s/early ghts.

DANE DEHAAN STARS AS A TROUBLED GAY TEEN IN HBO'S 'IN TREATMENT'

Although the story go that Redford sisted the character have tert women, his performance as closeted actor Wa Lewis is one of the earlit pictns of a gay or bisexual character Amerin film who is not ashamed and do not m suici. After playg gay Sulu “Star Trek: Beyond, ” the “Harold and Kumar” star embodied a bona fi out gay man as Billy Eichner’s first-ever boyiend on this tragilly short-lived Hulu edy. It still managed to gross upwards of $20 ln worldwi even after the explic gay ntent led to a botched limed release.

Frh off a hot streak wh “Cluels” and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet, ” Pl Rudd played Jennifer Aniston’s gay bt iend whom she secretly lov this ’90s rom-. Daniel Radcliffe has an explanatn as to why some Amerins might thk all Brish men "seem gay.

" While performg "How To Succeed In Bs Whout Really Tryg, " a chos member tried to set up Radcliffe's bisexual female hairdrser wh his gay Brish sgg teacher. "I said, 'Did you not know Mark was gay?

DANIEL RADCLIFFE HAS A HOT MOMENT WH ON-SCREEN GAY PARTNER DANE DEHAAN! SEE IT HERE!

' And he said, 'To be hont, all English people I meet seem gay, so I jt assume none of you are, '" Radcliffe revealed to Wh his cursy piqued, the actor went on to quire why some Amerins might thk all Brish guys "seem gay. One of the girls explaed to me was bee Amerin men feel the need to some way assert a sense of masculy everythg they do, and Brish men don’t feel the same pulsn to do that all the time, " the London-born actor told Radcliffe has been the subject of gay mors sce tapultg to stardom after the "Harry Potter" seri.

IS DANE DEHAAN GAY?

"The papers ed to say I had a gay face, whatever that is, or a gay voice but simply wasn’t te, " he told the Daily Exprs March, acrdg to Pk News. "[But] when you know a gay guy has a csh on you, ’s the most flatterg thg. " The film, about a 1944 murr that brgs together the three greatt poets of the beat generatn, featur a steamy gay sex scene.

John had never seen the versn of that scene that he wanted: gay sex a film that felt very real.