Daniel Radcliffe Out Cover: 'Harry Potter' Star Doesn't Find Gay Love Scene 'Shocking'

BY Maria Vultaggio | February 13 2013 10:09 PM

British actor Daniel Radcliffe is best known for the worldwide phenomenon Harry Potter.

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The 23-year-old actor played the hero in J.K. Rowlings best-selling series turned blockbuster hit from 2001 through 2011.

Fans watched Radcliffe grow up on the silver screen through all eight movies he filmed, but in his latest interview with Out magazine the 23-year-old celebrity wants to prove that Harry Potter isnt the only character he can play.

In 2007, Radcliffe appeared in the highly talked-about stage production of Eqqus, where he appeared nude on stage. Later he headlined a revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

Now he's courting controversy again by portraying poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, where hell participate in a gay love scene.

Radcliffe recently talked about the film, the buzz its been making and how he doesnt find the scene shocking when sitting down with gay magazine Out:

Its interesting that its deemed shocking, Radcliffe said. For me, theres something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. Weve seen gay sex scenes before. I dont know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene. Or both of them are equally un-shocking.

Radcliffe is on the cover of Outs March issue and told the magazine that it was difficult to get into the mindset of a gay man for the role.

You never see a gay actor getting asked what its like to play straight to my knowledge, at least, there is no difference in how heterosexual and homosexual people fall in love, he said.

Though some people doubt Radcliffe will be able to effectively pull off the role, he believes he will impress his critics.

I can see why people are skeptical about me playing Allen Ginsberg. I dont look like him, and Im English and middle-class and not from New Jersey. But thats what I think is so exciting about it, because people have no idea.