Friday July 24, 2009

Daniel Radcliffe loathes homophobia.

The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince star told Attitude magazine how he grew up surrounded by his parents’ gay pals and hates anyone with a homophobic attitude.

“I just loathe homophobia,” he said. “It’s just disgusting and animal and stupid and it’s just thick people who can’t get their heads around it and are just scared.

“I grew up around gay people entirely. I was the only child in my class who had any experience of homosexuality or anything like that.”

The young actor also revealed his true political feelings. He says he supports Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg because the other parties offer nothing to young people.

“I rather like Nick Clegg. At the next election I will almost certainly vote Lib Dem,” Dan said.

“If all the people who liked them voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three party system.”

Asked about British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Radcliffe said, “Paul Merton said, and I agree with him, ‘it’s a tragedy that this man has waited all his life to do this job — and now he finds out he can’t do it.’

“I don’t like the New Labour thing. I never experienced the optimism of New Labour, I was too young but I hear everyone was up and it was fantastic. I’ve only seen the bad years of it.”

Of David Cameron, Daniel said, “No! No, no, no, no, no! David Cameron is barely distinguishable from Tony Blair.

“I think the reason why people don’t vote is because the politicians are all so central now, it doesn’t seem to matter who you vote for.”

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