January 30, 2007

Remember back when the Olsen twins were hot? There were entire websites devoted to the countdown until they turned 18. I may have to start my own countdown for Daniel Radcliffe, better known to most as Harry Potter. Mind you, it is the actor himself and not his wizardly character that raises this issue. It was announced recently that Daniel will play Alan Strang in the West End Revival of Equus, where he will appear fully nude on stage. Promotional stills for the piece have popped up in various places online today and Oh. My. God.

He's got the beginnings of a great physique and he's got the hip divets that make me weak in the knees and damp in unmentionable places. I can't stop looking at the photos- they are beautiful. Naked Daniel, cut off at the hip-line (which allows the imagination to run wild), with a white horse. He's kind of a scrawn, but I'm into that. The horse is white and the setting is dark and smoky but lit in white- very arty. I'm rather perturbed by how attracted I am to these photos. I just want to lick him, and that creeps me out. Wanting to to bad bad things with Harry Potter is just not right.

He's technically a minor. Do I think looking at these photos of him is wrong? Not really. He's not a child, he's not being taken advantage of, he knows what he's doing, and they're not full frontals or anything. But it still squicks me a little. Is it because there is a horse in the picture? I don't know. They're nothing to do with bestiality either. Equus is a play about a boy with a pathological obsession with horses. The photos themselves are sexual without being sexual, which almost makes them hotter. And I'm still vaguely bothered by it for some reason I can't put my finger on. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop looking, but it probably means I won't be making these images my screen saver...