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!
Last week Daniel Radcliffe was the guest host on BBC’s Have I Got News for You. It is a news program gared at more mature audiences, so parents be cautioned. The episode may be watched below:
In addition to premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Kill Your Darlings will also have a screening in Brooklyn New York. The screening will take place on Thursday, January 31st at 7:30pm and will be held at the BAM Rose Cinemas, in Brooklyn. Tickets cost $15.00 (with a $1 fee) and can be purchased on MovieTickets.com!
The synopsis of the film is as follows:
An untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution.
Daniel Radcliffe was a guest on The Graham Norton Show, on Friday. The episode may be watched online on the BBC’s website. The episode will air this Saturday, December 15th, on BBC America so those of us not in the UK will be able to watch. Daniel discussed his new TV series, A Young Doctor’s Notebook as well as some more, rather odd, topics such as Dan Radcliffe Fan Fiction. The BBC have posted a short clip from the interview which may be watched below:
It should be noted that this show is known for some strong language and parents should use caution when allowing their children to tune in!
Yesterday MTV announced that Daniel Radcliffe joined Google+ as his first, and only, social media network. His reasoning for joining this particular platform is as follows:
“This has mainly come about because of the amount of people that I meet who tell me that they have contacted me on Twitter or Facebook when I know that’s impossible — because I don’t belong to either one of those sites,” Radcliffe told MTV News about joining Google+. “Now that I have this page, there will be an outlet for accurate information and hopefully people will not waste their time giving credence to people pretending to be me.”
“It will be active,” he said, “but with updates about things I’m working on or have worked on, including things I’m passionate about, like The Trevor Project. What it won’t be is the minutia of my daily life, like what’s on the craft services table.”
Dan has also participated in a new interview with ET Canada where we hear (and see a bit from) about Horns, Kill Your Darlings and The F Word.
Thanks to SnitchSeeker for the tip about the videos!
One of Daniel Radcliffe’s newer films, Kill Your Darlings will be having it’s world premiere at this years Sundance Film Festival. In the film Daniel portrays beat poet Allen Ginsberg, has been entered in the US Dramatic competition field. The synopsis of the film, from the press release, is as follows:
Kill Your Darlings / U.S.A. (Director: John Krokidas, Screenwriters: Austin Bunn, John Krokidas) — An untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHann, Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Elizabeth Olsen.
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival takes place in Park City, Utah between January 17 and 27. It is currently unknown whether or not Daniel will be attending.
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