Daniel Radcliffe gives ‘Details’ in revealing interview
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Hot Momma
In an interview and photo shoot with style magazine Details, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe seems determined to ditch his boy wizard image. The 19-year-old actor gives a rather revealing interview in which he seems happy to open up about his life. Radcliffe, who has spent eight years playing Harry Potter, is soon to start a run of Equus on Broadway, New York.
He will be on stage eight times a week, with full frontal nudity, just as he did in the hit London production. And although he will soon be playing psychiatric patient Alan Strang eight times a week, he said he had never spent any time on the couch himself.
‘I’ve been pretty happy. I’ve got a great family,’ he said.
‘We’re a very tight-knit group. We work very well as a team and as a tribe. I owe it to that.’
Radcliffe added that he was currently single, and does not have room for a girlfriend in his life.
‘Most of my friends have been girls and I see how they are with their boyfriends and I think ‘I couldn’t do that,’ he said. I just don’t have the time.
Radcliffe did admit he celebrated reaching the age of 16, by losing his virginity to a much older girlfriend.
But although he insisted the age difference ‘wasn’t ridiculous’, he did say it ‘would freak some people out’. The young lady rumored to have taken young Daniel’s innocence is Amy Byrne. Amy was 23 at the time and worked as an assistant hairdresser on one of the Harry Potter movies.
The actor , who is known for living a quiet life and not succumbing to the wild party scene said vodka and Diet Coke was his beverage of choice, because he was a ‘pansy-ass civilian’. He does have a wild streak though.
The 19-year-old actor confessed he would love to play a cross-dresser just so he could wear lots of slap and eye make up.
‘I think part of me would love to play a drag queen,’ he says in the September issue of Details magazine.
Radcliffe also told Details that the Harry Potter phenomenon had not left him with child star angst – but confessed he suffered from the normal teen problems.
‘For the most part I’ve been happy every single day,’ he said.
‘And all the times I’ve been unhappy, it’s never been anything to do with Potter.
‘It’s just been the normal, boring teenage crap. Insecurities, acne – all the normal stuff.’
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