It was more of trying to find your voice, and finding out who you are.’ He adds: ‘The transformative thing about the role wasn’t playing such a famous character or playing a character that had such a huge influence on society.
‘He wanted it to look like an authentic loss of virginity,’ Radcliffe says. Writer-director John Krokidas said that he had never seen someone’s first time having gay sex portrayed accurately on film before. Basically, gay sex, especially for the first time, is really fucking painful.’ ‘He would be telling me what I would be feeling in each take. ‘I was talked through it by the director,’ Radcliffe says. The only difference it made was obviously the actual sex scene, of course.’
‘People express love differently, person to person, but it’s not gender or sexuality related. ‘I don’t think there’s any difference between how one falls in love,’ he tells Flaunt. Radcliffe said it was not difficult to transform into a young gay man in love. Radcliffe plays Beat Generation icon Allen Ginsberg as a young college student who falls hopelessly under the spell of charismatic Columbia University classmate Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan). Harry Potter fans who take in Daniel Radcliffe’s latest film, Kill Your Darlings, will see the former boy wizard in some scenarios far different than his time at Hogwarts.
