Daniel Radcliffe: Handsome Hunk at Olivier Awards

Celebrating the best in British theater, Daniel Radcliffe was on hand for the Laurence Olivier Awards on Sunday (April 28) in London. Looking dapper in a traditional black tux and bow tie, the “Kill Your Darlings” actor happily signed autographs and posed for pictures before heading inside the main event. Held at the Royal Opera House, the awards pay tribute to the finest plays and musicals, as well as their actors and actresses. This year, the big night will be hosted by Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville, with performances by Petula Clark and “Glee’s” Matthew Morrison. Enjoy the pictures of Daniel Radcliffe at the Laurence Olivier Awards in London, England (April 28).

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Charlize Theron, Daniel Radcliffe to make special appearances at Oscars 2013

The 85th Academy Awards gets underway soon with anticipation growing as news trickles our regarding the nominees and presenters slated to vie for the coveted Oscar. The Academy Awards, informally known as The Oscars, are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements. The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards organized and overseen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  This year’s Oscars will feature special appearances by Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe at the upcoming Awards ceremony, the Academy announced in an officialstatement.

“We are quite excited to have Charlize, Chan, Joe and Dan join us on the show,” said telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. “We are happy to feature them as special guests in our [Oscars] production.”

This will be Gordon-Levitt, Radcliffe and Tatum’s first time appearing on the Oscar show. Charlize Theron won an Oscar for her leading role in Monster and received her second nomination for her leading role in “North Country” (2005). She starred in 2012’s “Prometheus” and “Snow White and the Huntsman”. Channing Tatum, who starred in five films of 2012, including “Magic Mike” and the reboot of “21 Jump Street,” will next be seen in “Side Effects,” due out this week, and “White House Down” this summer. Joseph Gordon-Levitt had a very busy year, with roles in “Dark Knight Rises,” “Looper” and the Best Picture nominee “Lincoln.” He most recently starred in “Don Jon’s Addiction,” which he also wrote and directed, and which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month. Daniel Radcliffe starred as the title character in the “Harry Potter” series, which is the highest grossing film series of all time. In 2012 he starred in “The Woman in Black,” and this year will be seen in “Kill Your Darlings,” “Horns” and “The F Word.” Charlize Theron, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe join a stellar list of previously announced Oscar presenters including “The Avengers” cast members Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo; returning 2011 Oscar winners Jean Dujardin, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer and Meryl Streep; co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Ted; and, musical performers including Adele, Norah Jones and Barbra Streisand.

Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network.

Daniel Radcliffe Woke Up Shocked At His Bizarre ‘Horns’ Role

MTV hit up Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where they got him to speak briefly on his role in Alexandre Aja’s Horns, as well as his interest in Max Landis’ script for a Frankenstein film.

“A few weeks after we finished, I woke up one morning thinking, ‘What was that? What was that film I just did?’ It’s so crazy,” Radcliffe said of working on Horns, where he plays a man who awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their impulses. “I feel like I have less concept of what it’s going to be now than when I first started, which is bizarre, but it’s very exciting.”

Speaking on the bizarre aspects of the film, “I got to have burn make-up on, and then I got to come out of the Pacific Ocean after having been burned alive and drowned — and I survived that because I’m a boss.”

He also confirmed that he’s interest in working on Chronicle scribe Max Landis’ Frankenstein project, which would cast him in a hunchbacked, Igor-type role. “I love that script… but to say it’s in any way an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is probably [not accurate]. It’s a Max Landis script so anyone familiar with his work [will] have some sense of what that means.”

Horns is currently in post production.

Daniel Radcliffe Steps Out With Mystery Brunette Woman

Harry Potter must really have a magic wand.

Well, Daniel Radcliffe certainly has some kind of spell over the girls. The 23-year-old actor was out and about with a lovely brunette in London on Saturday. The duo reportedly enjoyed a burger at Haché on Fulham Road and certainly appeared to be enjoying each other's company.

Daniel Radcliffe on Sundance, Sex, and Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe has Sundance audiences buzzing for his work in the John Krokidas–directed Kill Your Darlings, where Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg as a young poet-to-be in 1944, drawn to a charismatic college student named Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) who gets Ginsberg involved in murder. And while there's been plenty of chatter about the kiss both actors share — and the pivotal gay sex scene that Radcliffe has later in the film — the role is most notable for how convincingly Radcliffe is able to put Harry Potter behind him in order to disappear into a new character (albeit one with another set of distinctive eyeglasses). While celebrating his first trip to Park City, Radcliffe talked to Vulture about how he did it.

You and Dane DeHaan have great chemistry in the film, and I hear you’ve become great friends in real life as well.
Yeah, Dane and his wife sort of had what they termed a “staycation” at my apartment in New York in the two weeks leading up to Christmas, and we had New Year’s together as well. It was really cool. I cannot speak highly enough about Dane. How brilliant he is at his job is only surpassed by how he goes about his job, if you know what I mean. On some sets, you get very close to people — it’s very intense and intimate when you’re shooting a film — and then the film ends and you don’t know if you’re going to stay in contact. So it’s really nice to count Dane as a very good friend on a film like this. It’s a nice commemoration of this film.

And the two of you have already made out, so you’ve gotten that out of the way.

Exactly. [Laughs.] It would have been awkward to have that happen later.

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.

How do you think your work in this film relates to the work you’ve done as a gay ally for the Trevor Project? Does one help you gain any insight into the other?
I think the work on the film does help, because it’s a snapshot of what the world used to be like. In that kissing moment, most people are going to be thinking,There are two fairly attractive young guys kissing, but what’s more interesting to me is what happens right before that, when my character has to look around and check that no one’s around and that it’s okay to have this kiss. People have been asking John, “What’s kept you going? How could you find that well of passion to continue working on this film when people said they wouldn’t make it?” He said, “I had to get angry, and the thing I got angry about was that in 1944, you could literally get away with murder if you portrayed your attacker as homosexual.” It’s just another one of the things the gay community has had to fight against over the years, and in that way, it’s given me insight. It’s interesting because there is part of this film about these young men discovering their sexuality, and I think this would be a really cool film for a gay youth to see. Although it’s important to these characters, it’s not the end-all, be-all to their identity. There’s a tendency to think that once you come out as gay that’s how all your friends will think about you — that the first thing they’ll think about is that you’re gay, where actually that’s not the first thing I think about these guys like Allen Ginsberg. They were a lot more than just their sexualities.

What kind of direction did you get from John for the sex scene?
My favorite John Krokidas direction moment was when we started kissing. I guess I was way too hesitant about it in the moment, and John just went, “No!Kiss him! Fucking sex kissing!” That was my favorite note that I've gotten, probably in my career. [Laughs.] Especially with the world that I’ve come from! The things that directors have shouted to me in the past usually involve which way I have to look to see the dragon.

I love that in that scene, Ginsberg turns the light off before he loses his virginity, and the man he’s with turns it back on. I feel like that’s saying a lot in just one moment.
Yeah! The other important moment is when he’s about to start having sex with me from behind and I just grab him and turn myself over. John said that Allen would want to face him, that he would want it to be a still and intimate experience. I think it’s a very powerful sequence, and John thought he hadn’t seen that moment portrayed in a film in the way that he wanted it portrayed, that loss of virginity. He was really on a mission with that scene, and I hope I helped be a part of that.

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! (References: vulture.com)

Daniel Radcliffe poses for Sundance Film Festival "Kill Your Darlings" photo sessions:

Daniel Radcliffe headed to Park City, Utah, this weekend to take part in promotions of the world premiere of his drama, Kill Your Darlings, beginning with a portrait session alongside costars Dane DeHaan, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, Jack Houston, and Ben Foster, and director John Krokidas. Photos of the actors, who portray Allen Ginsberg and his Beat generation kin during their college days, from Friday afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival can be seen here, via Sundance's and Getty Images' official portrait studios. Dan will headline the premiere for Kill Your Darlings later this Friday afternoon at the Eccles Theatre, Park City. We will have more photos, interviews, and coverage with Dan from his first film festival throughout the weekend as they surface. (references: snitchseeker.com)

Photo Gallery: Kill Your Darlings World Premiere (Sundance Film Festival 2013)

Daniel Radcliffe 'modelling acting career on Dustin Hoffman'

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has claimed that Dustin Hoffman is inspiring his ambitions to be a leading man. The 23-year-old actor will next be appearing in the upcoming Kill Your Darlings, starring as the poet Allen Ginsberg. Radcliffe said that he wants to follow in the footsteps of his idol Hoffman and is looking at the veteran star and hiscareer, reported Daily Star.

“The person I’ve been looking at is Dustin Hoffman. In fact, I passed him the other day and he is absolutely on the shorter side, as am I. But he was in all those great roles, from action thrillers to romantic stuff. So there is a way of doing it unconventionally if you don’t necessarilylook like the 6ft romantic lead,” he said. Radcliffe also said that his controversial role in the explicit stage play Equus in 2007 helped establish him as a serious actor. “Doing Equus was important. It showed people that I wasn’t just here to capitalise on the Potter fame for as long as I could. I think ultimately, I’m ambitious because I want to prove everyone wrong who thinks that it’s impossible to emerge from Harry Potter and do well,” he added.
Radcliffe was named the fifth best-value actor (based on salary to movie-gross ratio) in Hollywood in a recent list, placing behind Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Shia LaBeouf and Robert Pattinson.