Naked sex scene in equus

Unlike Jonah Hauer-King , however, we are lucky to have the comfort of being able to wake up safe in the knowledge that our public nudity was not, and probably never will be, a reality. I will feel very exposed. But it only really becomes a reality when you get the part, and then only for me when I do it in rehearsals and then on the night. Asked whether he feels doing a nude scene such as this might come to plague him as an actor, as it did briefly for Daniel Radcliffe, Jonah is similarly, and modestly, unconcerned. I mean he had been in one of the biggest movie franchises ever, and I think it was his first role ever outside of Harry Potter.

Reflecting on the immense success of his play in the West End and on Broadway in the s, Peter Shaffer wrote: "In London, Equus caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists. Shaffer's play about a teenager who develops a sexual-religious obsession with horses, which culminates in him blinding six of them with a hoof pick, premiered at the Old Vic in The play transferred to Broadway, with Anthony Hopkins as Dysart, and in was made into a film starring Richard Burton. The theatre whizz kid Thea Sharrock, who wasn't born when the play was written, is the director saddled with the twin responsibilities of making Radcliffe's stage debut a success and helming the first major revival of the play for more than 30 years. Following the initial flurry in the s, Shaffer has since resisted all requests for a West End production.

The former Emmerdale actor plays teenager Alan Strang, who is examined by a psychiatrist after blinding a group of horses. That production made headlines around the world when Radcliffe appeared naked on stage. Kai said he knows the five-minute scene will still be a talking point. Ultimately I truly believe the nudity just has so much more to it and that moment of nudity is when you see Alan at his most vulnerable, a state he has tried to avoid getting into. The first reading of it I was just so intrigued by the character and by the second reading I was convinced I wanted to be a part of it and play this character.

It is a triumph of style over substance. The play feels terribly dated. Perhaps in the early s it was shocking to be told that passion, however misguided, must be swamped by conformity. Maybe the thought of a young man being so nasty to animals was horrifying then, while now we know about teenage suicide bombers and child soldiers toting machetes and AKs.