Daniel Radcliffe’s newest film, Kill Your Darlings, premiered at this years Sundance Film Festival and numerous interviews and reports have made their way online. Here is a quick recap of the news:
Sony Classics has reportedly bought the rights to the film and it is slated for a Fall release, we will of course post more as a concrete date is set. Thanks to Hypable
Vulture posted an interview with Daniel where he talks about his character, co-stars and some of the more mature scenes in the film.
Many of your fans are already obsessed with that kiss, sight unseen. I hope you’re prepared to see it immortalized in animated GIFs until the end of time.
You know, I think that will be wonderful! Dane and I are banging the drum already because we want the MTV Best Kiss award. We want that golden popcorn! To my knowledge, a sincere, passionate, romantic gay kiss has never won, so I think that would be a very cool thing for this movie to receive.
For which project did you feel the most pressure: to play someone who grows up to become the famous poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings or to play someone who grows up to become universally adored sex symbol Jon Hamm in your next project, A Young Doctor’s Notebook?
[Laughs.] I would have to say I felt more pressure with Kill Your Darlings.A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a wonderful show, and it’s not that it wasn’t challenging, but there was also a lot of fun to be had. Kill Your Darlings, while we had a lot of fun filming it, it was definitely a very intimidating experience. In the run up to it, it was a very daunting prospect to think, Okay, tomorrow I am playing Allen Ginsberg. God, I hope this works!
E! News has also posted an interview with the actor where he discusses similar topics.
[…] He added with a laugh, “John was very helpful in furnishing me with a lot of graphic detail of what I would be experiencing at the various stages.”
Instead of an actor plucked from a casting call, Krokidas asked a friend to play the sailor who Ginsberg sleeps with in the scene. “We were able to hang out a little bit on set and get to know each other a little bit, which I think is important when you’re doing a scene so intimate,” Radcliffe said. “You have to feel like you’re both in it together.”
Finally, there are quite a number of video interviews, some may be watched below. More can be seen here and here! Thanks to SnitchSeeker for rounding these up!