Daniel Radcliffe is the cover boy for the August issue of Esquire UK. It’s no secret that I find Daniel very charming and wiser than his years – but this is perhaps the most candid interview I’ve ever read with the little wunderkind. No subject seems to be off-limits, and Daniel reveals some very intimate information. The biggest headlines will probably be in his discussion of sex and in the part about his co-star Emma Watson. But I also think the whole “Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist” thing might get some headlines:
On living on his own for a year: “I’m a demon with a microwave… I cook myself dinner, though it’s mainly pasta with a load of cheese and a load of tuna; trust me, it’s awesome. I went away for a week and when I cam back the flat stank. I’d left a half-finished bowl of cereal and milk had just totally congealed.”
On Michael Jackson (Radcliffe was interviewed before Jackson’s death, and the rumor around the British papers was that Jackson had personally invited Radcliffe to come): “I can’t think of anywhere I’d less like to be [than Jackson’s comeback show in London]. I don’t like Michael Jackson’s music. Nothing against the man… but no.”
On Religion: “I’m an atheist, but I’m very relazed about it. I don’t preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Anthing he does on television I will watch… There we go, Dan, that’s half of America that’s not going to see the next Harry Potter film on the back of the comment!”
On Sex and Love: He says he had his first girlfriend at 14, whom he met through his co-star Emma Watson, and he confirms he lost his virginity at 16. “It was a good age. ‘I’m legal – right, come on!’”
On On-Set Hookups: “There was a period when we were the only boys and girls any of us knew… And so, you know, we were all unbelievably horny from about the third film to probably about the end of the fifth; then it all settled down. But, God, for a few years… There was never anybody I fancied that much in the cast, though the conspiracy theorists always like to say that me and Emma are dating. We know it’d be everything the fans ever wanted. I’m sorry guys, it’s not happening. It’s just not. There’s something really incestuous about the idea of it.”
On School: He’s done with his formal education, but has “twice weekly lessons with his English teacher.” “[Because] I don’t want to stop school and suddenly stop learning.”
Upcoming Non-Harry Potter Films: Radcliffe is considering taking a film role of a father, “which is very strange. I’m very excited about one day having kids… Three of four, but I think we’d have to see how the first one goes because I finished my parents off.”
[From Esquire UK print edition, August issue]
Doesn’t he seem sweet? I mean, obviously, he’s some kind of boy genius, but I just find it thrilling that there’s a big actor in his late teens/early twenties (Daniel turns twenty July 23rd) where we don’t have to make excuses for all of the dumb crap he says. Daniel doesn’t say anything dumb – the worst that can be said about him is that he’s a bit too honest for someone whose words will be endlessly parsed. But that’s his charm! And he likes cougars too! Sign me up.
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