![]() 'Alan Rickman did the play The Grass Widow early in his career where he had to lie down naked for five minutes, and Gary and James both had to be naked in Privates On Parade.’ ‘You become part of this little club and actors will bring it up because they know what you’ve done. You’ve just got to do it.” Like jumping into cold water.’ You just have to get ’em off and go for it. 'But he basically said: “There’s no advice. 'I also knew from a technical point that he’d taken his clothes off quite a lot and I thought he may have a trick or two. ![]() He grins: ‘Gary’s always someone I can talk to and he thought it was a good thing to do. 'There's nothing like doing a nude scene to put yourself under pressure,' said Danielīefore agreeing to the role, Radcliffe turned to an elder statesman of British cinema, Oldman (who played his mentor Sirius Black onscreen and who had become his mentor off-screen) for advice. 'It’s the weirdest thing because you are absolutely dreading it, yet you are doing it voluntarily and then you have to do it again and again and again.’ 'There are mobile phones up in the air but you are trying not to notice. They are all looking at my bits.” They are in the audience thinking: “Oh my God he’s naked. ‘You are standing on a stage thinking, “Oh my God, I’m naked. ‘When you take your clothes off – whoever you are – there is very little acting going on. Ten minutes is a hell of a long time – and I was out there at the centre of the stage. ‘James says that I definitely get top spot for what I did in Equus, which was effectively stand there completely naked for about ten minutes. Never before has one naked scene caused so many headlines around the world. Never have so many cameras been raised in a London theatre. It was a decision that sent shockwaves through the film-watching world on a level akin to the once squeaky clean Miley Cyrus twerking in a nude bikini at the Grammy Awards. It was his first post-Potter – and his debut theatre – role after making five of the eight Potter movies. Radcliffe was 17 when he stripped bare for Equus. ‘I mean full-frontal nudity in front of thousands of people.’ ‘To join you have to have been stark b****** naked on stage at some point of your career,’ he says. The membership criteria of the club are extremely strict, and candidates are heavily vetted. Its most recent member is James McAvoy, whom Radcliffe met this year when filming Victor Frankenstein, the most recent movie based on Mary Shelley’s iconic novel Frankenstein. 'I've been pretty lucky because I've never gone for the wrong type of girl,' said Daniel Radcliffeĭaniel Radcliffe is a member of an elite actors’ club, which includes two of his Harry Potter co-stars, Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman.
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