Seventeen year old Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is making his Globe Theatre debut in Peter Shaffer’s classic 1973 play Eqqus. But the young actor has recently come up fire for the nude scene that sent Daniel to the gym for regular workouts:

“I’m fine about it. Equus is an iconic play. The nude scene is part of it. I can’t do it with my pants on. That would be rubbish. We’ve done the scene a couple of times in rehearsal. I had no particular qualms. There’s nothing that would stop me getting my kit off if that’s what the work demands,” D.R says.

“The key to serious acting is to lose your inhibitions, to become free and fearless. I feel OK about my body. Not totally, of course, but no one my age does…but I’ve gone to the gym to make sure. And many of the actors I admire, like Gary Oldman, have gone naked.”