![]() Burroughs (a first-rate Ben Foster), Ginsberg kicks off a literary revolution. Along with Jack Kerouac (a sly, winning Jack Huston) and William S. Daniel Radcliffe, erasing all memories of Harry Potter, delivers his best screen performance to date as the young poet Allen Ginsberg, a Columbia freshman in 1944. That’s Kill Your Darlings, a dark beauty of a film that gets inside your head and stays there. I wasn’t that stupid.Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation. No, we didn’t make a bet on it, thankfully. And as anybody who plays fantasy football will know, pride very often goes before a fall. I’d basically been talking a lot of shit about his team all week, to put it bluntly, and got very, very cocky. And he kind of trashed me this weekend in fantasy football. Because then he’ll tell you about fantasy football. But Dane is really good he’s beaten me a lot as well. I think Dane said that only his wife and his dad had beaten him before. Dane and I started playing Scrabble on set of Kill Your Darlings, that was where that began, because we were both really competitive, and Dane is really good at Scrabble. I would assume we’re in one of the struggle periods at the moment.ĭane told us he and his wife had a staycation at your place once. We’ve had a terrible start to the season this year, but being a Giants fan is a lot like being an English cricket fan, in that it’s a lot of struggle punctuated by, like, moments of total glory. We also talk football a lot as well.Īmerican football. ![]() But also, silly shit, like we’ve both got quite stupid, silly senses of humor. ![]() That’s the one thing I actually can’t stand. I don’t think I could ever be friends with somebody who didn’t have respect for everyone on set. But also we have a huge amount of respect for everyone on set, not just actors. We’ve got a very similar approach to acting, I think. Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I’ve made through acting, in terms of another actor. On this film, in part because we didn’t have trailers, we actually all just hung out together in green rooms, we got to know each other in a very different way. Me and the crew were the people that were there constantly and they constituted my best friends. The interesting thing on Potter is that I was the only one out of the cast that was there for eighteen months. Did you find you bonded more with them than you did with the Harry Potter cast? The Kill Your Darlings cast really bonded, I understand. It’s filled with allusions, and references, and it’s wordy as hell, and I think when you first see that it can be quite intimidating. ![]() My initial reaction was, I don’t really understand this. When I was about 14, I’d read the first line of Howl because it was in a book of quotations I had, but it was probably about another three years until I read the poem, proper. How familiar were you with Allen Ginsberg? Basically, when people talk about chemistry, often what they mean is just being interested in the other person. ![]() And you kind of focus in on that and make that the part of the character that you always see. Which is that charismatic, outgoing boldness that he had that Allen didn’t have. So you just have to find that part of Dane, or of Dane’s character, that Allen was in love with. To my knowledge, there’s no difference between how gay people and how straight people fall in love. Kill Your Darlings is really a love story between two men. Vulture spoke to Radcliffe ahead of this Wednesday’s release about the first time he read Ginsberg’s Howl, bonding with DeHaan, and getting sacked by his new BFF in fantasy football. The movie, directed by John Krokidas, focuses on Ginsberg’s freshman year at Columbia and the mind-expanding - but dangerous- relationship he formed with the charismatic Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan). Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images2013 Getty Imagesĭaniel Radcliffe is back in the round glasses, only this time to play a young Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. ![]()
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