There's a kerfuffle going on across the pond. Daniel Radcliffe, the 17 year old who portrays Harry Potter in the movies, has taken on a dark, adult role in the play Equus. He has nude scenes. Check out the publicity photos in the link below. I'm not going to veer into the myriad lame jokes that pop into my mind. He's a 17 year old man/boy and I'm a 17 x 2 plus several year old woman.
The weird part is that Daniel looks EXACTLY like my brother Rich. It's jarring for me to look at the photos for that reason. Not because I'm looking at Harry Potter's, er Daniels inguinal ligament. That's the name of the muscle'ish lines on the lower belly that run "south" to the netherlands that we are forced to look at on every damn hip hop hoo-haw ever photographed. I'm old, I like buff chests, shoulders and biceps, keep your inguinal ligaments to yourselves, boys.
I think Mr. Radcliffe is making a brilliant choice. Unless there was some sort of clause written into his contracts with Warner Brothers about the types of roles he could accept outside of the HP movies, why shouldn't he delve into roles that will break him out of the Harry Potter character? He'll be alive and acting long after the 7th movie is a memory. Every so often the kid who played Eddie Munster pops up on the Howard Stern show. He's 50 something years old and people still call him Eddie. How many child actors self destruct, unable to shed their early personae?
People are saying "Well, I'll never take my kids to see Harry Potter again!" Please. Don't take them to see Equus.
Good luck, Daniel. And, ah, break an inguinal ligament.