“It’s not going to have the mass appeal of some other movies, but I still think the Beats can capture the imagination.” The Kill Your Darlings cast also includes Michael C Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) Jack Huston (grandson of John) Ben Foster (X Men, 30 Days of Night) David Cross (Arrested Development, Modern Family) Jennifer Jason Leigh (Single White Female, The Hudsucker Proxy) and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene).ĭespite that impressive roll-call, Radcliffe still isn’t expecting any major reaction to what is closer to an art house movie than the blockbusters he is more usually associated with. That may be, but there are still going to be a few eyebrows raised when the former Hogwarts wizard is seen in a passionate kiss with the talented Dane deHaan, who plays his lover Lucien Carr.ĭeHaan will be known to fans of In Treatment as the very troubled gay teen Jesse, who thoroughly challenged Dr Paul Weston’s (Gabriel Byrne) patience. “In fact,” he adds, “I think it’s more difficult for gay actors to play straight roles.” Look at Dirk Bogarde - he took on what was probably the first ever homosexual role portrayed in a film.” He’s referring to the 1961 movie Victim - which may have helped to relax attitudes, and even laws, regarding homosexuality in Britain at the time. And he rejects my assertion it would have been seen as ‘career suicide’ for a straight man to take on a gay role, had this been a decade earlier. “Being asked to play a gay man was no more a consideration than being asked to play, say, an American,” he tells me. “It’s incredible that was so recent,” says Radcliffe, referencing the fact that when he was growing up, with two parents in the entertainment industry (a literary agent and a casting director), there were always gay people in his circle.īut he’s quick to add that, judging by Russia today, in some countries, very little has changed.Īs this is his first homosexual role, I wonder if he hesitated at all in opting for the part. Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg, the gay author of the epic 1955 poem Howl, which caused major controversy in the US due to its explicitly sexual content, at a time when homosexuality was still illegal. Goodness knows, we’ve had our fill of photos of her parents.He is hosting a Q&A for Bafta members after a screening of director John Krokidas’ first full-length feature, Kill Your Darlings, a dark murder-drama based around the colourful lives of Beat Generation poets and writers, like William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Overall, it’s a good law.Hopefully it will bring peace to Suri Cruise. We’ll see if those photographers, many of them freelancers who need to get some kind of exclusive to get paid, heed it. But that should not be held against them by photographers who are just looking to get a buck.Ī clearer line has been drawn and hopefully it will become etched in stone. They can go wherever they like due to their parents’ wealth. It just can’t be healthy to one’s psyche. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that many of these kids will find themselves in therapy as they get older due to this constant glare of the spotlight. It’s stressful on the kids and it may have played a part in Paris Jackson’s suicide attempt.
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