We’ve all known for awhile that the Harry Potter books are riddled like “Stand up and take out your wand, Potter,” etcetera but the simple, innocent magic of the stories has always managed to counter this.
Now, though, Harry Potter himself has started casually talking about masturbation, in an interview with Playboy, no less — and it seems nothing is sacred any more.
“Yeah, I was like every other teenager in that sense,” Radcliffe told Playboy, in response to a question about whether he masturbated while filming Harry Potter.
“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,” he said.
While Radcliffe was on set, though, the only wand-handling that he took part in was strictly during filming.
“I wasn’t going, ‘When is Alan Rickman going to nail this scene so I can run back to my trailer?’,” he continued. “There’s another feeling, again perfectly described by Louis C.K.: that fear just after you’ve jerked off that everyone knows what you did.
“It would have been embarrassing to walk back on set and look the dignitaries of British acting in the eye, knowing what I’d been doing.”