The naked truth about a new look for Harry Potter

HERE’S Harry Potter as you’ve never seen him before — as a naked pin-up.

Seventeen-year-old Daniel Radcliffe has posed for some decidedly racy shots to promote his West End debut in Equus.

Gone is the bespectacled schoolboy wizard familiar to millions of Potter fans.

He is pictured with an equally naked Joanna Christie, the actress who plays his girlfriend.

In another, he poses alongside a white horse.

Radcliffe is required to strip for the role in Peter Schaffer’s controversial play about a stable-hand who has an erotic fixation with horses.

Producer David Pugh said: “There was no hesitancy about taking off his clothes. He has a confidence in his appearance. Harry Potter has flown out of Hogwarts for good.”

The play’s female director, Thea Sharrock, was impressed by his physique.

Mr Pugh said: “We had never seen him with clothes off before. We all went: ‘Wow’. Thea went: ‘Oh, my God.’

“For her, there was a certain relief. When we did the audition we never thought to say: ‘Would you go naked?’ We were so overwhelmed with his talent we set that aside.”

Equus opens at London’s Gielgud Theatre on February 27.