Daniel Radcliffe 'Details' his future plans

By April MacIntyre Sep 2, 2008, 15:56 GMT

British actor Daniel Radcliffe EPA/PAUL MILLER

Actor Daniel Radcliffe is on the October cover of Details magazine, and he looks different, ready to break away from his Harry Potter persona completely.

Radcliffe became Harry Potter at 11. Daniel will end his role at age 21. 

He tells Details that his dream role would be a gender bender one.

“I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup,” Daniel shares with reporter Chris Norris.

Radcliffe had comments for his generation: “I don’t pretend to do anything particularly wild.  People talk about rebellion and they say, ‘Where is the teenage angst?’ 

But I say I try to do it simply by the choices I make in the work I do.  I just like wrong-footing people.  I write poetry and I love it.  I like being different from most other people in my generation.”

Radcliffe skipped college in favor of his acting career, yet Radcliffe talks about his vast collection of cultural material he has amassed.

Radcliffe's approved books range from Rushdie's Midnight's Children to Zola's La Débâcle to nine different editions of Moby Dick, and his eclectic taste spills over to music too.

Despite his fondness for Sid Vicious, eye shadow and his ease with dropping trou on stage these days, he is just a regular guy, in his words.

"I don't pretend to do anything particularly wild," Radcliffe says. "People talk about rebellion and they say, 'Where is the teenage angst?' But I say I try to do it simply by the choices I make in the work I do. I just like wrong-footing people. I write poetry and I love it. I like being different from most other people in my generation."

Radcliffe told Norris about his emotional reaction to reading the last Potter book, Deathly Hallows, on a plane trip. "It was very emotional, actually," he says. "In the front of the book I wrote something Anton Chekhov wrote to the woman he ended up spending the rest of his life with: 'Hello, the last page of my life.' Which I thought was very appropriate."

Daniel Radcliffe is the cover story for the October issue of Details magazine.