'Harry Potter' Stage Strip Stirs Storm
Personally, I wouldn't care to see any theatrical performance where anyone strips down. Eww! If I wanted to see that, I'd go to a strip club instead of to a play. *** 'Harry Potter' Stage Strip Stirs Storm Jan 31, 6:34 PM EST NEW YORK -- "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, who strips for his new role in London's West End revival of the play "Equus," has ignited a bit of a media firestorm by posing for racy promotional photos for the production. The Tony-Award-winning drama tells the story of a stable-hand who has an erotic fixation with horses. In one photo, Radcliffe, 17, dares to bare it all alongside a white horse; in another, he is pictured with a naked Joanna Christie, the actress who portrays his girlfriend. "Equus," directed by Thea Sharrock, opens at London's Gielgud Theater on Feb. 27. Tony Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths plays a pyschiatrist who treats Radcliffe's character. "Part of me wants to shake up people's perception of me, just shove me in a blender," Radcliffe said in a recent interview with Newsweek magazine. "It's a really challenging play, and if I can pull it off — we don't know if I can yet — I hope people will stop and think, 'Maybe he can do something other than Harry,'" he said. Radcliffe, who was discovered seven years ago in the audience of a London theater, reprises his role as the bespectacled boy wizard in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," slated for release July 13.

I once taught a college course called "Theatrical Arts and Society". One of the plays we read was Equus.

Meh. "Equus" is a standard in Theater 101 courses. The hubbub is ONLY because the actor is Daniel Radcliffe. And...I don't blame him a bit for taking the role. Heh...he wants to have a career AFTER Harry Potter. Silly boy. Trying to play against type. Heh. Seriously, I hope it works for him. And heck...its a PLAY! Its not like he's doing naughty film for the kiddies. Its a serious play. The press are just stupid.