Vulture: The Kill Your Darlings cast really bonded, I understand. Did you find you bonded more with them than you did with the Harry Potter cast?
Daniel: The interesting thing on Potter is that I was the only one out of the cast that was there for eighteen months. Me and the crew were the people that were there constantly and they constituted my best friends. 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. Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I’ve made through acting, in terms of another actor. He’s fantastic.

Word and Film: Other than mentioning he’s not yet read J. K. Rowling’s new adult novel, Casual Vacancy, but intends to and thinks the Harry Potter ride at Universal Orlando is “pretty awesome,” his on-set tutor is as close as he’ll come to an in-depth discussion of the Potter franchise he signed on to as an eleven-year-old against his parents advice and to which he dedicated the next decade of his young life. Could the graphic sexuality his Ginsberg exhibits on screen following two “full monty” years in the West End and Broadway revivals of Peter Shaffer’s play “Equus” be a distancing technique from the Hogwarts alum?

“That theory doesn’t bother me much,” Radcliffe admits. “I’ve been surprised by how many people have talked about this film more than that scene. I’ve been quite happy about that. In terms of that particular scene and also ‘Equus,’ I always knew people were going to be asking about it. It would be silly not to know that. And frankly, I take quite a practical attitude toward it, which is if they come to see a gay sex scene and end up seeing a one-and-a-half-hour drama about the Beats; I’m fine with that. They paid their money.”

Well, she had all that hair. As Harry Potter, was it weird to play opposite a lot of effects that would be added later?
Daniel: That’s an area where younger actors are more comfortable than older ones. We were asked to do what we love to do—to imagine and pretend. And this generation grew up with so much CGI. We’ve seen behind-the-scenes of how films are made, so it’s more of an accepted fact.

Well, let’s get down to reality: Are you a gay icon?
Daniel: I don’t consider myself an icon of anything. If other people want to call me that, it’s flattering. But I think of Madonna as being a big gay icon.

But you have a nice gay following.
Daniel: So I’m told. John Krokidas has informed me. Hey, I’m not complaining. It’s not particularly been a thing for me. I’ve always grown up around gay people. A good friend of my mom and dad’s named Mark was my first experience in knowing a gay man. I remember he was a big Britney Spears fan.

Buzzfeed: “You can learn a lot about a person from working with them, and how they work, and the conversations that come up because of what you’re working on,” says DeHaan. “So in many ways, as we were working, we were still also getting to know each other as people.”

Radcliffe jumps in. “It’s just that great thing of when you actually meet someone for the first time and you talk about the way you want to work, and you are open with each other,” he says. “I suppose that’s the effort you have to make. Because when you sign up [for a movie], you don’t have to sign up to, like, get to know somebody and being really open with them about stuff. But when you work with people who are willing to do that and go there with you then it really can be a very bonding thing as well good for the job.”

NY Daily News: So far, people seem to be enjoying all those other films, even the slightly weird ones like “Horns” or more challenging like “Kill Your Darlings.” Everyone wants to think that Potter was a handcuff for my career in some way. But the franchise has given me amazing opportunities . It’s been a springboard rather than a hindrance.

And for the most part there are only superficial differences working on big-budget movies like “Harry Potter” and indies like “Kill Your Darlings.”

On “Harry Potter,” I grew up thinking it was normal to have expensive two crane cameras on set, every single day, just in case we needed one on standby. On “Kill Your Darlings,” we had the crane camera for just a single day.

Collider: I definitely have to ask this before we run out of time. When did you first hear that there was gonna be, I don’t wanna say another film in the Harry Potter universe, but…
RADCLIFFE: Yes. I guess I heard a couple weeks ago. Can you…

I can tell you what I know. You probably know more than me.
RADCLIFFE: I don’t. I definitely don’t. Are there books? Because, people are definitely coming in and saying there are more books?

There’s a book called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
RADCLIFFE: She’s already written, but that’s what she wrote for a charity book ages ago.

She is writing a screenplay based on things from that universe. She’s writing her first screen play for Warner Bros., David Heyman is producing, and it’s gonna take place in the world of Harry Potter, but not involve-
RADCLIFFE: Yeah, because that’s in the past or the future or something.

That’s what I was gonna say to you. It could be going on concurrently. Maybe it’s about an explorer that goes and explores the beasts of the world-
RADCLIFFE: It might be (laughs). I have no idea. I wish I could tell you more.

I don’t either, but I wanted to ask you this: say it takes place at the same time? I’m just gonna throw this out there, because I always love easter eggs. Would there ever be in the back of your mind like, if they ever wanted you guys walking in it, like say you were doing something from movie five, and you just happen to pass on the street, but you don’t see each other, is that something you’d be interested in? It would be an easter egg.
RADCLIFFE: That’s the version of it that I would be most interested in (laughs). By the time that comes into filming, I will have put quite a few years of work into putting that character away, so to put the costume on for any length of time would not necessarily be something I’m seeking. But I like the idea of an intertwining story line, almost like a Robert Altman moment, like him passing in the night. That’s kind of fun. I don’t know if that would be the case, but I could maybe be talked into that. But I don’t know! I don’t wanna say that, because as soon as I say that, everyone goes mad, but I do-