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Daniel Radcliffe: He's a grown up, an atheist, and not wearing a purity ring
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Despite the assumptions people often make about child actors, especially ones who will struggle to break away from their mold the way Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe will have to, he's always been a pretty interesting, bright, cool kid. While the Haley Joel Osments of the world struggle to accept that their pudgy adorable looks don't translate so well as adults, Radcliffe has grown up into a confident, mature adult. As he told The Telegraph, he's a confirmed atheist with awesome musical taste who lost his virginity at sixteen. So he's basically every student at a liberal arts college. How did he manage to grow up so blithely assured? Probably knowing he's managed to earn about twenty million quid before he was eighteen helped.
He acknowledges facing social barriers at school, but says working in films with older, more intelligent people gave him the ability to not care and come up with a clever retort. "I'm not saying I was Oscar Wilde at 14, but I had a line for anything they could throw at me," he says. Well, surely Oscar Wilde faced his own problematic social issues at fourteen.
As for his atheism, he says, "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism." Great, now we can all look forward to the annual Harry Potter merchandise fan burnings along the Bible Belt. What's funny is that people BUY those things to destroy them, so their very purchase of the items is the end of any influence they have over manufacturers, thus leaving their point moot and smoky.
The rest of the article, as well as a photo shoot, will appear in the British Esquire. You know, Radcliffe's grown into a decent looking kid. No surprise, really, as this writer has a weak spot for what she'd describe as 'Harry Potter owl looking guys'. They're everywhere, with their black rimmed glasses, messy black hair, and pasty skin. Cute.
Side note: if you start to put in 'guys who look like...' in a google search engine, 'guys who look like Kenny Rogers' is the first thing that pops up. Sadly, there does not seem to be a website compiling men who look like Harry Potter. Someone should get on that.
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