Watch Part Of The ‘Kill Your Darlings’ Trailer, With Daniel Radcliffe As Allen Ginsberg
There’s a 30-second clip going around today that is being billed as the teaser trailer forKill Your Darlings, in whichDaniel Radcliffeadopts an American accent to play beat poetAllen Ginsberg. In truth, this seems to be a truncated upload of the full trailer; the end of this clip is clearly not meant to be the real end of the trailer.
Still, this is a film that many of you have been curious about for some time, and so it’s worth a look at the footage. We see Radcliffe as a young Ginsberg. He arrives at school and quickly falls into the orbit of the seductive, charismatic Lucien Carr, played by rising starDane DeHaan. There’s a shadow of a threat from Carr’s older friend David, played byMichael C. Hall(Dexter) but you don’t get to see much of that here. You also don’t get to see even a hint of the film’s most scandalous moments, which include a sex scene featuring Radcliffe that will make some audiences see the actor in a very different light.
In general, this story doesn’t end well at all — “kill” in the title is quite literal — but this is a nice little tease for those who want to see what Radcliffe has done after the end ofHarry Potterand the success ofThe Woman in Black. Check out the footage below; we’ll update with the full trailer when it becomes available.
The film also featuresJack Hustonas Jack Kerouac,Ben Fosteras William Burroughs, andElizabeth Olsenas Edie Parker. There’s some really good stuff in the movie, which I caught at Sundance, though the occasional intrusion of modern music doesn’t work as well as I think the filmmakers hoped. (A sort of heist scene is set to a TV on the Radio song, for example.) And while the ultimate effect of the film isn’t always powerful, the cast is great to watch — Radcliffe, DeHaan, and Foster are all fantastic.
