Harry Potter To Get Naked in “Deathly Hallows”.
Daniel Radcliffe Will Never Live “Equus” Down.
Ever since our beloved little Harry Potter blossomed into a handsome—though short—teenager, young ladies are seeing him a bit differently. Gone is our shy, unassuming little man with the unfortunate bowl haircut. In comes the guy who took it all off on Broadway, who revealed his little Harry in front of live audiences and got rounds of applause of standing O’s all around (so to speak).
Once You Go Equus, You Never Go Back.
In the upcoming Harry Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, Radcliffe will go au naturel with Hermione. As a person who has read the entire series, cover-to-cover, and on their release dates, I don’t recall any of the characters appearing in the raw. In the film version of “Goblet of Fire”, even when Harry was in the Prefect’s bathtub, he was carefully surrounded by bubbles and the scene was filmed in such a way that only Moaning Myrtle seemed to get a charge out of it. And while the characters all began to emerge as attractive adults, with Hermione dating Durmstrang Tri-Wizard Champion Viktor Krum; with Harry falling for Cho Chang, who was, at the time, involved with Cedric Diggory (played by a pre-Twilight and well-shorn Robert Pattinson); and with Ron clearly in love with Hermione but unable to speak it.
Our little Hogwarts kids were growing up.
While Daniel Radcliffe was taking his bare bows onstage, Emma Watson (Hermione) was posing in suggestive ad campaigns for high-end designers and even accepted an engagement ring from boyfriend Jay Barrymore, who was afraid she’s go off the University in America and meet some other guy. Which she, evidently, did. Enter drummer Rafael Cebrian of Spanish band The Monomes—don’t worry that you’ve never heard of them. No one had, until Hermione Granger Emma Watson started dating their drummer. The story is that they met at Brown and have been “hanging out”, although Watson’s fiancé was making plans as recently as late October to move to the States to be with her. Rupert Grint, our flame-headed and painfully shy Ron Weasley, has managed to stay out of the tabloids by not dating.
But nothing was going to keep this story—ahem—undercover. “Deathly Hallows” Director David Yates created scenes in which Harry could be in the buff again. For some kind of magical creature to conjure a scene in which Harry and Hermione are kissing without clothes to bring out Ron’s jealousy is one thing, but to have him standing at King’s Cross Station stark naked just seems a little uncalled-for. Granted, the Harry Potter series started collecting fans of all ages, and the kids who began reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” are now well into their teens and maybe wanting to see a little more magical skin.
If they missed “Equus”, they’ll get their chance to see new parts of Harry Potter. Anyone who has seen a fashion magazine in the last two years has seen little Hermione turn into a bit of a sex kitten for the sake of fashion. And, if you have an itch to see Ron Weasley without a shirt, the 2010 release of the film “Cherrybomb” will show a completely different, darker side of the actor (again, so to speak).
Some of us don’t really want to think of Harry Potter as even HAVING naughty bits. Alan Strang, his character from “Equus” can have the naughty bits. But now that he’s opened the floodgates (yet again, so to speak), Daniel Radcliffe has also opened the door to having any director decide to write in naked scenes.
Harry, what would Lily and James say? And where’s that Invisibility Cloak when you need it?