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After seeing Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe bear his soul (and everything else) earlier this year in the London stage production of Equus, many theater-goers probably wondered what the next step would be for the talented teen.

Radcliffe may have given a glimpse into his future plans during a recent New York press junket for the upcoming film, December Boys.

When a journalist asked the teen thespian If he has considered playing a gay character “from the aspect of being an actor, Radcliffe responded:

"Id never play a gay character just for the sake of playing a gay character. If the script was good, and it was a good gay character then, Im 18, and so the parts Im going to be getting will be open for around that age range. And around that age range is when people are exploring sexuality, so those are the parts I think…

Forget about that chaste kiss in ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.'' The rapidly maturing Daniel Radcliffe spills the beans to EW.com about his new indie flick, ''December Boys,'' including what it was like to film his first sex scene RADCLIFFE ''[My movies] need to be spaced out, because I don't want it to cloy. People have been seeing a lot of me this year.'' Damian Dovarganes/AP

He's helped make the mega-budgeted Harry Potter movies the highest-grossing franchise in history. But two years ago, Daniel Radcliffe took a stab at shaking up his screen image by accepting a role in a teeny-tiny Australian indie movie, December Boys (which just opened in New York and L.A.).

Radcliffe plays Maps, an orphaned lad from the Outback sent with three fellow orphans to have a summer holiday in a seaside town, circa the early 1960s.…

Actor Daniel Radcliffe hopes to debut on Broadway next year in a reprisal of his London role in "Equus," a performance where he shed not only his clothes but also the mantle of Harry Potter.

"December Boys" marks Daniel Radcliffe’s first leading movie role outside of the "Harry Potter" series, but a tentative Broadway appearance may prove far more revealing.

Radcliffe, 18, is hoping to reprise his critically acclaimed role in "Equus" on Broadway next year. "I would be very nervous because I think that (U.S. audiences are) even more discerning than in London," he recently told Reuters

Radcliffe…

This weekend, Daniel Radcliffe continued his publicity tour for his newest film December Boys by visiting Australia. Dan appeared on various television shows from the premieres in Melbourne and Sydney. Pictures from both events are now online.

Videos:
LA Times (scroll down, video on right-hand side of screen)
Rove Live
Reelz TV

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AMNew York
Herald Sun
Movies Online

Dan Radcliffe took part in a conference call with several fan sites about his upcoming film, December Boys. In the below audio file, you can hear him talking about playing an orphan, the mega-hint J.K. Rowling dropped him regarding Harry’s Deathly Hallows fate, his Australian accent, and much more. To listen, click below: 

Please note that this call had rather poor audio quality, and we started to clean it up, take out the questioner’s introductions and such, and gave up halfway, figuring you’d rather just hear it yourselves. Watch out for random key presses (which were people muting and unmuting themselves) and a lot of static. We’ll try and have a readable transcript up soon

Actor Dan Radcliffe is the subject of a new interview from Collider.com, where he gives some of his opinions on the final book in author J. K. Rowling’s series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this segment of a soon to be released complete interview, Mr. Radcliffe discusses his growing up with the character of Harry Potter and of his experience of reading the final book, saying in part:

Q: Can you talk about where you were reading the book and what you were experiencing as you were reading it?

Daniel: Totally. There’s a quote, I’m not going to take this interview down too pretentious a route though this next bit but there’s a quote from Chekhov when he wrote to the woman who was the final love of his life, who he later married and I think died with, not that she died but…