Quick, the Invisibility Cloak!
Arrived in London to find 17-year-old Daniel Radcliffe making damned sure that he doesn’t get type cast for his film role as Harry Potter.
Radcliffe is upstaging the recent announcement of the final Harry Potter book by preparing to appear on the West End stage in a revival of Peter Shaffer’s controversial play Equus. This is when Radcliffe is not filming the fifth and sixth Harry Potter movies or even, one might presume, finishing high school.
Daniel, his lady friend who is assuredly not Hermione Granger, and his horse each make extended appearance on stage without clothing – and Daniel’s character, Alan Strang, both blinds horses and then rides around having sex while riding them. The move has significantly reduce costume and marketing expenses; advance ticket sales are already over a million British pounds — threatening to dwarf advance sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Neither Hermione nor her alter ego, author J.K.Rowling, have commented yet, but most Muggles have responded by declaring their outrage and then promptly buying tickets. This is London reports the reaction of some parents:
‘We as parents feel Daniel should not appear nude. Our nine-year-old son looks up to him as a role model. We are very disappointed and will avoid the future movies he makes.’
Another wrote: ‘I am curious as to how and why his parents said this was OK.’
Well, they grow up quickly, don’t they? It seems unlikely that Radcliffe will bring his artistic talents to the United States until he turns eighteen. The penalty for child obscenity and child pornography in the US can run to decades in the slammer. In US vs Knox, the courts famously held that material could be judged pornographic even if the the person under 18 is fully clothed.
Or maybe the whole thing is another one of those Polyjuice Potion tricks…
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