Daniel Radcliffe, it would seem, is desperate for a part in which he has the chance to play a gay spy. The 18-year-old actor who portrays the amazing boy wizard Harry Potter on screen seems to have developed a taste for parts in controversial productions, whether on the big screen or on stage that allow him to liberally express his sexuality.
After the controversial part of a deranged, narcissistic stable boy in the play Equus (for which he stripped out of his wizard robes and down to a scanty pair of jeans) and portraying an orphan in the Australian movie "December Boys" (where he also enjoys a hot sex scene with his female co-star), Radcliffe apparently wants to try his hand at portraying a gay spy. The actor is planning to audition for the role of a boy who attends a boarding school in the 30s where he eventually falls in love with his best friend and later moves on to become an undercover agent in a brand new remake of the 1984 movie "Another Country".
This film in fact blends theater and the big screen together, as it is an adaptation of a play by Julian Mitchell which originally starred Rupert Everett in both the stage and screen version. The story is loosely based on the life of Guy Burgess, a man who became a double agent working for the Soviet Union, and was famously part of the Cambridge Five spy ring.
Radcliffe in fact revealed that he has a special interest in playing characters who are keen to understand and further exploit their sexuality. "I'd never play a gay character just for the sake of playing a gay character. If the script was good, and it was a good gay character then, I'm 18, and so the parts I'm going to be getting will be open for around that age range. And around that age range is when people are exploring sexuality, so those are the parts I think I will be involved in", he stated at a press conference in which he also spoke about his performance in "December Boys".
It sure looks like Harry Potter is growing up quite nicely. Indeed, we don't see him puking in club bathrooms and snorting coke, which makes me preserve at least some faith in the fact that there are teenage stars who grow up without plastering their existential crisis all over the tabloids. Good for you, Daniel!