Daniel Radcliffe would like to, as gender-bender boys like to say, hide his candy.

The 19-year-old Brit, who has made an almost lifelong career playing Harry Potter, says he wouldn’t mind doing some cross-dressing on the big screen.

“I think part of me would love to play a drag queen,” Radcliffe says in the new issue of Details magazine, “just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.”

That’s not the only thing Mr. Radcliffe reveals…

He tells writer Chris Norris that he celebrated turning 16 (Britain’s age of consent) with an older girlfriend.

While it doesn’t sound like a Demi and Ashton situation—Radcliffe insists the age difference “wasn’t ridiculous”—he does admit “it would freak some people out.”

Radcliffe hits Broadway later this month to star in Equus. And yes, he’ll be onstage eight times a week baring his full frontal just as he did in the original London production.

When asked if he’s ever been in therapy like Alan Strang, the psych patient he plays in Equus, Radcliffe boasts, “Please. No. Never. I’ve been pretty happy. I’ve got a great family. We’re a very tight-knit group—we work very well as a team and as a tribe. I owe it to that.”

Even the craziness of Harry Potter hasn’t caused him any child star angst. “For the most part I’ve been happy every single day,” Radcliffe insists. “And all the times I’ve been unhappy, it’s never been anything to do with Potter. It’s just been the normal, boring teenage crap. Insecurities, acne—all the normal stuff.”

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Daniel Radcliffe has slammed prudish fans who refuse to see his naked scenes in theatre show Equus - because he is sick of people branding the production “pornography”.

The teen actor was required to disrobe on stage when he starred in the dramatic play Equus in London’s West End last year - a role he’ll soon reprise on Broadway.

And the star is shocked by the reaction of older female fans, insisting his nude scene is no big deal.

He says, “Offended mothers were calling in and saying I shouldn’t be doing this, that they weren’t going to see it. OK, don’t see it. They’re are treating it like it’s pornography and it’s not. It’s only seven minutes at the end of the play when I’m naked and I’m 19 now.”

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Daniel Radcliffe is preparing to bare all in the final film of the Harry Potter franchise - and insists he isn’t scared about stripping off on screen.

The 19 year old was required to disrobe on stage when he starred in the dramatic play Equus in London’s West End last year - a role he’ll soon reprise on Broadway. And he insists the experience has given him the confidence to appear naked in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which starts filming next year.

He says, “At first I thought I’d have pants (underwear) on for the scene. Apparently not. But I’ve sort of done that before on stage. It’s all old hat now, really.”

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Daniel Radcliffe has compared the latest Harry Potter installment to cult movie Trainspotting - insisting the new film contains “a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels”.

Radcliffe recently finished filming the sixth Potter movie - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is due for release in November.

And the star insists that there are moments in the picture which are very similar to scenes in Ewan McGregor’s controversial 1996 film.

He says, “There’s a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels. We have a couple of Trainspotting moments. That’s two films I never thought would be mentioned in the same breath.”

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Daniel Radcliffe is determined to tone-up his body before appearing on Broadway’s Equus in the nude - and he’s not ashamed to admit it.

The Harry Potter star, 18, will disrobe in the Broadway adaptation of the Peter Shafer play later this year - just as he did onstage in London when the play opened there in 2007.

And Radcliffe made sure to stop by the gift lounge before Sunday’s 62nd Annual Tony Awards, where he shamelessly picked up a Scorcher Butt Machine - a piece of exercise equipment with “a special emphasis on butt shaping”.

He says of his new work out regime, “They don’t have things like this in England. We never get gifts.”

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Daniel Radcliffe will attend the funeral of his murdered co-star Robert Knox.

The 18-year-old, who won the role of Marcus Belby in the forthcoming film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, died from multiple stab wounds following an altercation in Kent, England last month.

Knox’s family have revealed the movie’s stars will attend the funeral.

His uncle John Knox, says, “We’ve heard that the Harry Potter stars have asked to come to Rob’s funeral. It will be a fitting tribute to Rob. He looked up to them and told us how much he admired them all. It was his dream to be an actor and I have no doubt given the time and the training he would have made it.”

A man has been charged with Knox’s murder.

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