Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has revealed that he had to have his bottom waxed when he took on the controversial lead role in Equus. The star, then 17, had to strip completely naked for the part, and has painful memories of having the hair on his rear end removed.
Speaking to Empire, he recalled:
“When I first did Equus I was very self-conscious about arse hair, so I made the ill-fated decision to have it removed via a process called sugaring.
Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings (PR)
“It was f**king painful. I had it done once and I no longer care about my hairy arse! But it’s not as bad as you’d think. I’m probably only a six on the arse!”
In terms of his feelings around nudity and scenes of a sexual nature, though, the British star maintains that they don’t really bother him.
“It’s definitely a lot easier on film than it is on stage,” he mused. “I’m not too fussed about the nudity stuff. If you take the job, you sign up for what you read in the script. You can’t then get to the set and suddenly have a freak-out and say, ‘I can’t do this’.
“I wasn’t nervous about the gay stuff [in new movie Kill Your Darlings], I was nervous about the film because I wanted to do a great job and show a lot more of what I can do.”
