Recently, DeHaan took on a different kind of role, as a model in Prada’s spring-summer ad campaign. “But also, actually, Columbia library has a lot of correspondence between Ginsberg and Kerouac, and Ginsberg’s journal, where they talk about Lucien, and it gives a lot of clues about who he was and the things he did, so I went back there.” “The script is written really well, and it’s a really good clue into who the character is,” he said.
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Looking back on it, that is what happened,” he added, laughing.Īs the movie is based on a true story about the beginnings of the Beat movement, when Ginsberg, Carr, and Jack Kerouac met at Columbia University, DeHaan went to the source for research. “We weren’t thinking, Now I’m killing Dexter. “We were taking ourselves pretty seriously,” DeHaan said. The two actors were not laughing ironically while shooting the murder scene. “I totally understand that people are going to talk about it, because it’s salacious and whatever, but the thing that was much more nerve wracking to me about this film was hitting all those big emotional beats.” It just was a part of the movie,” he said. “I don’t really see the sex scene in this film as a risk. It was lovely.”Īlthough Radcliffe’s gay-sex scene in the film has generated a lot of buzz, that wasn’t difficult to do.
“It was a pretty cathartic moment to do that for the first time and really-at the risk of sounding pretentious-feel it. “Once I started, I was in danger of not stopping,” Radcliffe told VF Daily at the Paris Theatre in Manhattan. So it took some working up to it,” he said.īut once the tears began flowing, they were hard to end. “You know, some people can do that on cue. “Whenever you, as an actor, see in a script a line like Allen weeps openly, you always go, Oh, Jesus, because you’re going to have to cry,” the actor said at a Cinema Society screening on Monday. But the toughest thing about the role was having to cry. Playing a college-age Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, Daniel Radcliffe portrayed the Beat poet just blossoming as a person, experimenting with life, drugs, and sex.