“I do feel like going back to all those people and be like ‘Why weren’t you more shocked about the sexual, religious worship of a horse than my character has in that?’ And…the gay sex scene in this is somehow troubling everyone suddenly,” Radcliffe said. After all, he did play a young man who has a pathological religious - and sexual - fascination with horses in the 2007 West End revival of stage play “Equus.”
One question the “Harry Potter” star doesn’t understand, however, is whether or not his fans will be able to “cope” with the fact that he’s playing a gay man in the movie about poet Alan Ginsberg and friends. “I mean, it is slightly salacious, but if that gets people to buy a ticket and they end up seeing a one-and-a-half-hour drama about the beat generation, then I’m happy with that.” “Somebody said to me the other day, ‘Why do you think people are talking about the gay sex scene so much?’ And I was like ‘Cause it’s an easy headline,’” Radcliffe said during a SiriusXM “Townhall” interview. Daniel Radcliffe understands why people keep asking him about what it’s like to take his cloths off and film gay sex scenes with Dane DeHaan for upcoming indie “Kill Your Darlings,” and he’s not bothered by it - as long as it leads to people buying tickets for the movie.
