Hairy Botter: Naked on Broadway
Little Daniel Radcliffe grew up before our eyes in the Harry Potter movies. Earlier this year, he did his utmost to break away from the "boy wizard" image by starring in a London production of Peter Shaffer's Equus.
The headline grabber was that the play – about a mentally disturbed young man who injures a stable full of horses – requires its star to go starkers.
Now the news is that 18-year-old Radcliffe and the production, which also stars Richard Griffiths (Tony Award-winner for The History Boys), is coming to Broadway. In an interview with the AP's Christy Lemire, Radcliffe joked about being naked on a cold stage.
The naked truth
What is it about actors that allows them to be naked onstage? Does that courage come from the same source that lets them be actors in the first place, a mix of confidence, capability and desperate insecurity?
Whatever it is, I admire it. I can barely do the swimsuit thing on a public beach.
I was thinking a lot about the whole nudity thing while sitting in the audience at San Francisco’s Lorraine Hansberry Theatre watching 2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night, a play by James Edwin Parker that opened Sunday.