Earlier today, during Your Daily Gosling, Sarah gave you guys a little quote where Daniel Radcliffe announced that he had a “talent crush” on Ryan Gosling. And that got me to thinking a little bit, and I came to a very odd conclusion: I think Daniel Radcliffe is my new Ryan Gosling.

I KNOW! How could I, after all we’ve been through with Ryan? He’s perfect, isn’t he? He loves ballet and Disneyland, and then there’s his face. Ryan Gosling should be my new Ryan Gosling!

But my heart is leading me in a different direction, and that direction is straight towards the most adorable boy who lived, and this little interview with Attitude magazine did nothing but drive me closer to him.

On gay marriage: “Don’t define yourself by your sexuality, don’t define as straight or gay, define yourself as people and help another person if they’re in trouble. The ultimate reason gay marriage should be legalized everywhere is because, as a kid, you look to your mum and dad and they’re married, then you look at the gay couple who’ve been together for the same amount of time, but because they can’t get married their relationship doesn’t seem the same. Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere. If you grow up as a young gay man knowing you dont’ have the same opportuniteies as everyone else, you’re going to feel victimised and massive prejudice towards you.”

On religion: “I’m not religious, I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools. Schools have to talk to kids from a young age about relationships, gay and straight.”

On the Republican presidential candidates: “…they disgusted me less than candidates like Rick Perry, who made that ridiculous advert wearing ‘the Brokeback jacket’, and I think pretend to be homophobic just to win votes.”

On wishing Obama would support gay marriage more: “Yes, I do, but can he really? Of course he’s in favour of it, but he has to be careful about saying so. I’d rather have someone like him in the White House than the alternative.”

Is he gay? “No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I’ve never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, ‘Am I?’ but I wasn’t…Well, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he’s fantastic and…(ahem) you know he’d be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.”

Do you see what I mean? I haven’t heard anything charming from Ryan Gosling in a pretty long time, but here lately Daniel has been just pumping out the charm. Not to mention that Daniel looks way cuter in a suit.

So where do you guys stand on this one?

Remember how Daniel Radcliffe used to be this crazy, raging alcoholic who claimed that he’d not be able to attend any events unless he was wasted, and he’d spend hours and hours in his home drinking alone? He’s talking about it again, and this time, letting out more details. More scary, make-me-sad details that also make me thankful that he’s quit drinking and got himself a nice girlfriend and is doing movies that don’t require tons of alcohol to get through.

Daniel claims that in his darkest days, he’d “black out” all of the time and would hide in his house because he so feared what he did while in that condition:

“Seriously, in the last three years of drinking I blacked out nearly every time. Blacking out was my thing. ‘The drinking was unhealthy and damaging to my body and my social life. That’s beyond question,’ he said in an interview with Glamour magazine. I was living in constant fear of who I’d meet, what I might have said to them, what I might have done with them, so I’d stay in my apartment for days and drink alone.”

Dan says that while some people benefit from the occasional social drink, it turned him into someone neither he – nor anyone else – liked to be around, and it actually cost him some friends (I know; that might be the saddest part of all. Who would not want to be friends with Harry Potter?):

“I was a recluse at 20. It was pathetic – it wasn’t me. I’m a fun, polite person and it turned me into a rude bore. For a long time people were saying to me, ‘We think you have a problem’, but in the end I had to come to the realization myself.”

And you know who kind of helped him come to that realization? Oh, you know, none other than SIRIUS BLACK HIMSELF:

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See now, how nice is it to have one of the previous night’s posts about that darling (and f-cking hot) Daniel Radcliffe, only to wake up and find that the first post of the following day is also solely dedicated to Daniel? There should be more days like this in the week, my friends.

This time, I have even better news for you, if the news about Dan liking hairy snizatch didn’t just completely put you up over the top (it did me, that’s for sure). Turns out that the rumors about Daniel and Rupert Grint are completely untrue, and the two are actually good friends. From People:

There’s no bad blood between Harry Potter costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

Despite an interview that Radcliffe recently did that “was blown out of proportion,” the Woman in Black star says he and Grint, 23, are “very, very good friends.”

“It’s just ridiculous,” Radcliffe, 22, told On Air with Ryan Seacrest. “Someone said, ‘Are you in contact with Rupert and Emma [Watson] at the moment?’ And I said, ‘Emma and I have been texting recently, but Rupert and I never text.’ ”

Apologizing to fans who took the quotes the wrong way, he explains, “We have never texted each other in 10 years of filming. We just never have. We are lazy texters. We’ve never texted each other back. And we both know that’s how the other person is.”

But the big-screen besties make up for their lack of digital communication in person.

“I know that the next time I see Rupert, we’ll sit next to each other and chat, and it will be like old times,” Radcliffe says. “It will be fantastic … It’s just that we’re not constantly texting each other.”

So, see? They are BFFs, and doesn’t that kind of make the world a better place – just by that friendship existing and, you know, being genuine? When I first heard the news that Ron and Harry just weren’t that into one another, I didn’t sleep for a week. But now? Maybe I can sleep fitfully, and restart my tradition of falling asleep to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (which I stopped last night, because I found it to be extremely inappropriate, especially in light of pubic developments), but I just don’t know yet, guys. Even this kind of news – good news! – may never change how I feel, now, about Daniel Radcliffe.

“This is way too much information, but I don’t like girls with nothing down there either. It freaks me out. You have to have something, otherwise it’s f-cking creepy.”

OK, so are we all in complete agreement that Daniel Radcliffe is not only the most precious man-boy alive, but he’s actually pretty g-ddamn hot, too? I mean, wow. Don’t know what it is about this interview, but something about Dan talking about lady-scaping completely sends my mind to places that it shouldn’t go, because he’s Harry Potter for f-ck’s sake. And that makes me think of Disney Channel’s Harry Potter weekend in a totally different light, and that’s close cousins with pedophilia, isn’t it? I just can’t get down with that, friends.

Anyway, to refute your original point, Daniel, about how you think it’s “creepy” to not have anything down there, let me tell you: It’s not creepy that you don’t like hairless kitty cats, it’s creepy that you’re Harry Potter and I LIKE IT.

How do you guys like your ladybits?

Back in November, there was this beautiful rumor that Harry Potter could finally win an Oscar, specifically the Oscar for Best Picture. There were a handful of reasons for this – more ratings, the last Lord of the Rings movie won Best Picture when it came out – but the idea was the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 had a pretty solid chance of at least receiving a nomination, and a well-deserved nomination at that.

But, as you know, the nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards have already been announced, and Deathly Hallows is nowhere on that list. Or, ok, it’s actually on the list three times because it received nominations for Art Direction, Makeup, and Visual Effects, but that’s neither here nor there. What is here and there is the fact we will never be able to see those darling kids, little Daniel Radcliffe, adorable Rupert Grint, and gorgeous Emma Watson, up on that stage, receiving the awards that they, along with every single person involved with these movies, have earned.

But hey, it doesn’t bother Daniel Radcliffe one bit. He doesn’t need your Oscar, he doesn’t need your approval. and he doesn’t give a f*ck. Well, all of that, but with more grace:

“I didn’t expect it to be nominated for Best Picture, and no, it doesn’t faze us,” Radcliffe told Moviefone. “Just because we’ve been around for a long time, and made a lot of movies, I don’t think when you come to the end of that series that anyone’s obligated to say you’re best picture. Obviously it would have been lovely, but I don’t think it’s something we’re going to be losing sleep over.”

Not surprisingly, Radcliffe doesn’t really place a lot of weight on the Academy Awards as a whole — and sits on the fence when it comes to winning one as an individual.

“I have mixed feelings about awards for actors in general,” he said. “Obviously it’s a lovely thing to be recognized by the public or by your peers, and I’m sure that’s a very gratifying thing. But I always have a moment when I watch those big ceremonies… we love to pat ourselves on the back in this industry, and we like to tell ourselves how well we’ve done and how amazing we are. It’s all very self-congratulatory.”

As for some British press talk of him winning an Oscar for “Woman In Black”?

“That’s very kind, but very insane.”

And this is just one more reason why we love Daniel Radcliffe.

Real quick though, check out these pictures. How crazy does he look here? I realize he’s being silly for the camera, but Dan, honey, come on. Get some rest, sweetheart. I’m only saying this because I love you, but those bags under your eyes, my goodness. Take a break, then come back and resume your role as the most adorable person who ever existed, all right?

Daniel Radcliffe has been a busy little man in the days since Harry Potter. He’s been filming and promoting terrifying movies, he’s starred in a Broadway show, he’s beaten an addiction to booze. He even got himself a lady and is thinking about becoming an archaeologist! But even with all of those activities, all of those obligations and relationships, he still manages to text Emma Watson, like, all the time.

Rupert Grint though? Yeah, not so much:

Harry Potter fans prepare for a shocker.

The three stars of the film franchise are far from close buddies in real life, according to Hogwarts wizard DANIEL RADCLIFFE.

Dan – promoting his new flick The Woman in Black this week – revealed that while he does keep in touch with Hermione, er I mean EMMA WATSON, he’s hardly ever in touch with RUPERT GRINT.

Dan said: “There’s this idea that Emma, Rupert and myself are the best of friends who always hang out together.

“I’m just going to put out there, Emma and I text all the time but Rupert and I never text each other, we never see each other.

“If I see him every six months or so, it’s a friendly ‘hello, how’s things with you’ but that’s about it.”

Did that just hurt you as much as it hurt me? Did you have that same image in your mind that these three really are the best of friends, that they talk to each other on the phone at least once a week (always a three-way call, they don’t play favorites), and that when they’re all free, they get together and run around the forest with sticks for wands and recreate the magic that they all shared for so long? Because that’s what I always thought. How sad is it that they really do seem to play favorites? I wonder if Emma ever calls up Ron*?

I also went through all the pictures we have available of the Harry Potter kids, and I couldn’t find a single photo of Daniel and Rupert without Emma, and Emma is usually wedged in the middle. There were plenty of Daniel and Emma, as there were a good few of Rupert and Emma, but none of just the two boys. I even did a good ol’ Google Image search, and I found one picture of just Daniel and Rupert. Just the one. Does that mean anything? Am I reading way too much into this?

By the way, since Harry Potter wrapped up, Rupert has been painting elephants, doing arts and crafts for Tom Felton, and touching our hearts by performing Christmas miracles. Oh, and according to IMDB, he’s filmed one movie, is working on another, and is signed on for two more. All in all though, he doesn’t seem to be quite as busy as Daniel, so really what I’m saying is “pick up the goddamn phone, Rupert.”

*I’m absolutely sure Emma calls up Ron and she calls him up often. After you have two fictional children named Hugo and Rosie, you develop a bond that can’t be broken, and I won’t hear anything different.