# 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe to appear nude on stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148 "2007-01-30T19:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/81 "2007-01-31T20:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Og help me, I still see him glaring at Snape and trying to outsmart the Dursleys. [/QUOTE] Me too. Except now, he’s buff and naked when he does it. And he doesn’t stop at “glaring.” ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/82 "2007-01-31T20:47:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] I mean, English boarding schools aren’t practically synonymous with sodomy for no reason. [/QUOTE] This isn’t something I’d been previously aware of, but would love to find out more about it. As for the play, eh. He’s a lovely young man and I hope this helps him get taken more seriously as an actor, as I do think he’s got a lot of potential there. I don’t particularly care about him getting naked for the play other than the fact that hey, Daniel Radcliffe naked. 😃 I might be nine years older than him, but still. I’m not blind, y’know. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/83 "2007-01-31T20:51:30Z")
[QUOTE=Kiros] As my 12th grade drama teacher explained to us right before we started the play: _Equus_ is a story about a boy who loves horses. (The less flippant answer goes something like this: it follows a psychologist as he explores the underlying causes of the boy’s extensive psychosis. There are all SORTS of things going on within that framework… it’s a pretty deep play if you’re the english-major-type to look into things that way, and one of my favorites from that drama class, actually.) [/QUOTE] Mine, too–I still have fond memories of getting the only “perfect” grade in my AP senior English class from a very tough teacher with an essay on “Equus.” There are all kinds of things going on in the play, not the least of which is a very interesting debate about which is better, free spiritedness or conformity to social norms, and whether it’s morally right to force everyone into society’s definition of “normal,” regardless of cost or consequences to the individual. It’s also got some cool stuff about how a mother’s hyper-religiosity juxtaposed with some equine imagery can really mess up a boy in his formative years. I would love to see the play, and it has nothing to do with naked Harry Potter. I recommend it highly–yes, it’s very disturbing, but it also brings up some questions that are worth thinking about. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/84 "2007-01-31T21:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Y’know, reading the scenes in the books where a 14-15-16 year old Harry is dealing with his first crushes on Cho, they totally ring hollow to me. Because all carnal thoughts are carefully airbrushed from Harrys interior monologue. Even nerdy 16 year old boys experiencing their first crushes on girls are thinking about what those crushes look like naked. And dealing with the results of those thoughts in a boarding school shared bedroom has got to be a bit awkward. Unless, y’know, your roomates is the obliging type. Happens all the time. I mean, English boarding schools aren’t practically synonymous with sodomy for no reason. [/QUOTE] On the other side of that, there’s a scene in (I think HBP?) where Harry is in bed imagining Ginny and feeling lucky that Ron doesn’t know what’s currently going on in his head. A-_hem_. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/85 "2007-01-31T22:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] This isn’t something I’d been previously aware of, but would love to find out more about it. [/QUOTE] I actually found out a little more on this from another Doper, whose name I won’t mention, but maybe he’ll respond if he says this. Yoohoo! Anyway, suffice to say it’s all true! ---
**Author:** ![OBJECTION](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@OBJECTION](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OBJECTION)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/86 "2007-02-01T06:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] Have you seen the poster art for this production? It’s brilliant. > **[Typepad | Network Solutions](https://www.networksolutions.com/typepad?siteID=100&channelID=P99C100S653N0B5A1D0E0000V111)** [/QUOTE] That is deeply disturbing in a way that absolutely perfect for the play in question. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/87 "2007-02-01T13:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] Yeah, good question - though from the news item linked, it seems people are objecting 1.) to the fact of this actor in this role and 2.) that the theatre/director/whoever is specifying no minimum age requirement to see the play. [/QUOTE] Well, I was “Equus” on Broadway when I was 15 (Anthony Perkins was the star at the time), so they weren’t keeping kids out then, either. Thing is, “Equus” is a serious play about a seriously disturbed individual (even if Radcliffe’s character kept his clothes on, he’d STILL be frightening to kids, once they realized what he’d done). “Equus” is not a play that little kids should see under any circumstances… but since little kids won’t get to see the play anyway, I don’t see the harm. I mean, I’d NEVER let my 3 year old watch George Carlin’s risque comedy concerts, but that’s no reason to throw away his Thomas the Tank Engine videos. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/88 "2007-02-02T19:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I don’t suppose anyone can give me a synopsis of Equus? [/QUOTE] Alan Strang is a kid from a working class London family brought in to the asylum after gouging out the eyes of 12 race horses. Martin Dysart is the trouble psychiatrist assigned to him. Strang will only speak in TV commercial jingles [I wonder if those have been updated since the 70s?] so information comes from his family. It’s found out that his fanatically religious Christian mom hung a picture of Jesus in mid-to-late-Passion (very bloodied and beaten) on Alan’s bedroom wall when he was a small child and had him pray to it every night. Later his dad, an equally fanatical atheist (needless to say it’s not a very happy marriage) threw out the picture of Jesus and put in its place a picture of a race horse. On the beach as a boy one of Alan’s few genuinely happy memories and his first sexual experience of sorts involved a man taking him on a galloping horseback ride. (The man wasn’t a perv and Alan’s not necessarily gay: it was the happiness and the power of the moment and the sound of the hooves that had him excited. The father reveals that when Alan was an adolescent he came into his room unexpectedly and found him worshiping the picture of the horse the way he had once worshiped the picture of Jesus that hung in the same place. Alan has switched one object of worship for another. When Alan takes a job at a stable he’s attracted to a girl who works there and she to him. When they get naked and try to have sex he’s unable to because of the horses/gods looking at him and ultimately goes beserk and blinds them. Meanwhile Dysart has a cool dream about being a priest disembowelling children and people who hear young attractive boys like Harry Hamlin, Richard “John Boy” Thomas, Tom Hulce, etc. [they’ve all played Alan] are gonna be butt nekkid on the stage make it a hit. It’s a great play- B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T staging that could never be captured on film (hence the abysmal Burton vehicle) but I agree: the nudity’s gratuitous. College productions usually opt for flesh colored briefs. The actor playing Dysart is the obese guy who plays Harry’s uncle in HARRY POTTER. George Takei just finished an all Asian-American production of the play in L.A., incidentally. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/89 "2007-02-02T22:53:37Z")
Good for him. I would hate to see him completely disappear because of the Burden of being harry shuts him out of so many roles. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/90 "2007-02-03T02:44:14Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Me too. Except now, he’s buff and naked when he does it. And he doesn’t stop at “glaring.” [/QUOTE] I was just thinking that this is going to do… well, good or bad things, depending on your take, to the Slash community. Brrrrr… And yeah, he’s a good looking fellow, but I’ll save my praise for seeing Hermione’s cauldrons. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/91 "2007-02-03T20:15:01Z")
I have to admit, for 17 Harry Potter certainly is a hairy Potter. But this has to be a good career move. Seriously, the kid has been in front of a camera portraying Harry Potter for longer than most doctors spend in medical school and finishing up their internships. By the time the last of the seven books are filmed (assuming he does the last few as well) the guy will have spent more time as Harry Potter than as Daniel Radcliffe. And 17 might seem young to most of us, but again - the kid has spent the better part of his life in front of the camera. If he ever wants to have a chance in hell to do any other acting work in the future, now is the time to start trying to break the Harry Potter mold. Whereas Elijah Wood always had, and still has, certain “Hobbit” features in real life, Daniel Radcliffe can dump the Harry Potter glasses and hairdo and perhaps get away with doing something else without every single person in the audience thinking, “look, Harry Potter is playing the part of [fill in blank]” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/92 "2007-02-03T20:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] By the time the last of the seven books are filmed (assuming he does the last few as well) [/QUOTE] There are only 2 more to be filmed and only death would keep him from finishing the series. Half-Blood Prince will be released in November 2008. Normally Deathly Hallows would be released in July 2010, but if they’re smart they’ll film HBP and DH back-to-back and give them to us 6 months apart instead of 18 months as has been the norm. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/93 "2007-02-03T20:45:11Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] There are only 2 more to be filmed and only death would keep him from finishing the series. [/QUOTE] My guess is that you are correct, but Pierce Brosnan also thought he had a lock on James Bond for a few more films (and started to get greedy in negotiating the fee)…but when it comes down to money, studios can be fickle. Bye bye Pierce. Would be interesting to know if Radcliffe has an air-tight contract for the next two films. If not, I can assume he could ask for a hefty bump in salary to do that last film and the studios might be put in an uncomfortable position. There would be an international uproar if they had to re-cast Harry for film seven. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/94 "2007-02-03T23:30:16Z")
Holy shit, he got all hot. I always thought he was a bit of a girly looking thing, but he’s all…hot. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about…he’s not two-timing his Harry Potter role to appear in porno…it’s Equus. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/95 "2007-02-04T08:22:11Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] My guess is that you are correct, but Pierce Brosnan also thought he had a lock on James Bond for a few more films (and started to get greedy in negotiating the fee)…but when it comes down to money, studios can be fickle. Bye bye Pierce. [/QUOTE] That’s a completely different situation. They wanted to re-vamp and jump-start the series again anyway. If they started from the beginning with **Casino Royale** , they couldn’t have used Brosnan for that. He’s too old and has too much history with the whizbang Bond movies he’d already made. It turned out to be a win-win situation for everybody. Brosnan is free to do really great quirky fare like **The Matador** , Bond gets a new start, Craig gets a steady paycheck, and we get Craig. Everyone wins (except for the weirdos over at [craignotbond.com](http://craignotbond.com), but we get to laugh at them, so it all works out). They would NEVER re-cast someone else to take Radcliffe’s place. Never. He IS Harry Potter and as I said, only death or some horrible disfiguring accident will keep him from finishing out the series. You’re right, there would be an uproar. He could ask for a cool billion, and they’d have to give it to him. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/96 "2007-02-04T09:09:54Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] He could ask for a cool billion, and they’d have to give it to him. [/QUOTE] That is why I would love to see that contract…_I doubt Radcliffe would do it_, but he could say he was “ill” and not able to play the part, or any number of other little tricks to up his salary. Litigation would take years - so he would essentially have total control if they wanted to film the last book before he started graying at the temples. The studio would not be in a good position to negotiate with him, and if he thought for a minute this could be his last film due to the series pigeon-holing him into the character, well…he might want to go out with a nice, extra chunk of change. Not trying to be evil, or imply it will happen - I am just playing the part of an evil lawyer/agent or manager who might want to see their fee upped and get the client to play along. Do you think they paid Ray Romano $1 million per episode for his last season because he was a nice guy, or because he had a good agent? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/97 "2007-02-16T19:04:02Z")
This thread has been bumped to show Potter’s bare [rump](http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=37669&in_page_id=7). (I feel so… sordid.) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/98 "2007-02-16T21:06:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] This thread has been bumped to show Potter’s bare [rump](http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=37669&in_page_id=7). (I feel so… sordid.) [/QUOTE] I think I found a new desktop wallpaper 🙂 . Why are American actors so damn modest? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/99 "2007-02-16T21:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] This thread has been bumped to show Potter’s bare [rump](http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=37669&in_page_id=7). (I feel so… sordid.) [/QUOTE] Aww, look at the cute dimples! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148/100 "2007-02-16T22:01:12Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Aww, look at the cute dimples! [/QUOTE] Yeah, but I can’t get too excited knowing the whole thing is really gonna sag and look flabby in about thirty or forty years. (Otherwise it’s like looking backwards into a mirror.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-daniel-radcliffe-to-appear-nude-on-stage/390148.md?page=6)