The Daily Beast's Kevin Sessums interviews Radcliffe:

Kevin Sessums: "What's it been like working in the small bower world of the theatre? It's a very different environment than film. Much more collegial and camp and...well, let's face it...gay."

Daniel Radcliffe: "And for a lot of straight guys - and I know I'm guilty of it sometimes - when you know a gay guy has a crush on you it is the most flattering thing."

Kevin Sessums: "Forgive me, but to be politically incorrect here, I've seldom met a straight actor who is not a 'fag hag.' Are you?"

Daniel Radcliffe: "Oh, yeah. I know I definitely caught it. Absolutely. My mom was a casting director and my dad was a literary agent and I was surrounded by gay men from a very young age. And I was the only boy in my class at school who had that kind of relationship with gay men. Most of my friends had parents who had proper jobs in banks and law firms so none of them had been exposed to homosexuality in the way I had - as a normal course of things. So they had a rather different attitude toward it than I."

Kevin Sessums: "They'd just bugger each other."

Daniel Radcliffe: "Well, I didn't go to a boarding school if that's what you're getting at. That's one thing Harry Potter has done if nothing else. It has restored the reputation of the English boarding school. It has made it something other than a hotbed of homosexuality. Every time a new Harry Potter book comes out, the numbers at English boarding schools go up."

Last update: 01-30-2009 01:29