Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, who strips for his new role in London's West End revival of the play Equus, has ignited a bit of a media firestorm by posing for racy promotional photos for the production.
The Tony Award-winning drama tells the story of a stablehand who has an erotic fixation on horses. In one photo, Radcliffe, 17, dares to bare it all alongside a white horse; in another, he is pictured with a naked Joanna Christie, the actress who portrays his girlfriend.
Equus, directed by Thea Sharrock, opens February 27 at London's Gielgud Theater.
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths plays a psychiatrist who treats Radcliffe's character.
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"Part of me wants to shake up people's perception of me, just shove me in a blender," Radcliffe said in a recent interview with Newsweek magazine.
"It's a really challenging play, and if I can pull it off - we don't know if I can yet - I hope people will stop and think, `Maybe he can do something other than Harry,"' he said.
Radcliffe, who was discovered seven years ago in the audience of a London theater, reprises his role as the bespectacled boy wizard in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, slated for release July 13. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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