9 times Daniel Radcliffe tried to shed his sweet, innocent ‘Harry Potter’ image

For Radcliffe, there are very few topics that are off limits, including his sex life.

In a candid interview with Elle magazine, he opened up about losing his virginity and how it was a “really good first time.”

Radcliffe again touched on his activities between the bed sheets during an interview with Elle, when he told the publication that since losing his virginity, he’s “happy to say I’ve had a lot better sex.” Glad to know it, Daniel!

 
During an interview with Playboy, Daniel Radcliffe was more than willing to discuss masturbation. His own masturbation.
 
“I was like every other teenager in that sense,” he told the publication. “My favorite line about masturbation is Louis C. K.’s, something like ‘I found out about it when I was 11, and I didn’t skip a day.’ I think I started very early — before my teens. But not when I was on set.” 
 
I think it’s safe to say that these comments made us look at Radcliffe in a completely new light.

But it’s not only things that Radcliffe has said that made us realize he’s long since shed his innocent Harry Potter image but also the films that he started taking on.

Roles like Kill Your Darlings, in which he starred as a young Allen Ginsberg and stripped down to film a gay sex scene. 

There was also Broadway play “Equus,” in which Radcliffe portrayed the deeply disturbed and completely naked character, Alan Strang.

The role, which Radcliffe assumed for five months in 2007, required some serious full-frontal scenes — something which he had no problem doing. 

 
Reinventing himself with “weird” adult roles (including Horns, The Woman in Black and Victor Frankenstein) is something that Radcliffe has done well, but also something he enjoys.
 
Speaking during an interview with NME, Radcliffe explained, “People do ask me, ‘Why do you choose such weird movies?’ but I don’t think they’re weird; they’re just stories I’m interested in.”

 
Radcliffe also once implied (kinda) that he has had sex with Harry Potter groupies.
 
During an interview with Heat magazine, Radcliffe said, “I was always very nervous about the groupie thing. I like to like somebody before I sleep with them. You know, you’re going to have to talk to them afterwards, even if it is a one-night stand.””I have… I mean, that has happened, but generally speaking I’ve known the person. Apart from a few times when I was drinking.”

 
We’re glad that Radcliffe has found love with Erin Darke, but the first time they flirted was during a sex scene in Kill Your Darlings — Darke gives Radcliffe’s character a blowjob in the library.
 
“That’s a wonderful record of us flirting for the first time,” Radcliffe told Playboy of the scene. “There’s no acting going on — not from my end, anyway. There’s a moment when she makes me laugh, and I’m laughing as me and not as my character. She was incredibly funny and smart. I knew I was in trouble.”

 
Radcliffe was propelled into the limelight from a young age, and the pressure contributed to his drinking problem. Over the years, there have been multiple reports about Radcliffe’s wild ways and excessive partying, and during an interview with Shortlist Magazine, he admitted to having struggled with a drinking problem — he quit drinking in August 2010. 
 
“The drinking was unhealthy and damaging to my body and my social life. That’s beyond question,” he told the magazine. “I was living in constant fear of who I’d meet, what I might have said to them, what I might have done with them, so I’d stay in my apartment for days and drink alone.”