Daniel radcliffe in gay movie
It took more than 10 years to deliver Kill Your Darlings, John Krokidas’s debut feature film about the Beat Generation of writers, to the screen. Staring Daniel Radcliffe, the film is packed of (same) sex, drugs and jazz — the rock and roll of the 1940s. Kill Your Darlings is a gay production, made by an openly gay filmmaker. This is no small feat given that Brokeback Mountain, Blue Is the Warmest Colour and even this year’s Liberace HBO biopic, Behind the Candelabra, were directed by straight men.
The motion picture is based on a true case — the murder of a homosexual man that committed the core writers of the Hit Generation: Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Long before they became legendary tycoons, the Beats were united by Lucien Carr (played by an on-the-brink-of-movie-stardom Dane DeHaan), a charming aristocratic young guy who spearheaded the birth of a new literary genre. Carr was deeply interested with a guy twice his age, played by Dexter’s Michael C Hall, whom he met when he was 14. The product of that association was tabloid fodder.
Finding a lead star to play a young Ginsberg was no small task for Krokidas. Though Radcliffe nailed hi
Daniel Radcliffe reveals that gay sex is “really f–king painful”
Daniel Radcliffe has definitely grown up since his days as Harry Potter (AKA The Boy Who Lived), hasn't he? From tackling grave plays on the West Terminate to sensationally good horror motion picture The Woman In Black, the young Brit has definitely made the transition from child celestial body to seasoned actor - and it seems as if his next project is no different.
Kill Your Darlings, directed by John Krokidas, is set to knock cinemas this Autumn - and Daniel has opened up about what it was like to play a gay man to Flaunt magazine.
Unsurprisingly, his feelings on the subject are very mature and VERY quotable: “I don’t think there’s any difference between how one falls in love."
"People express love differently, person to person, but it’s not gender or sexuality related. The only difference it made was obviously the actual sex scene, of course.”
Watch the trailer for Murder Your Darlings below
We love that Daniel recognises love is just that; love, no matter who it's felt for or by. And we were very interested to hear how he managed to portray this effectively on screen.
In the movie, Daniel loses his virginity t
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