In the video, above, the film’s director John Krokidas tells Daily Xtra how he kept things authentically 1940s in the sex scenes in part by banning Daniel Radcliffe and the other actors from removing any pubic hair before shooting, making it a strict “wide bush” set. Below, Radcliffe, who stars as Allen Ginsberg, tells MTV how surprised he is at how much attention his gay sex scene in the film is getting:

“It’s interesting that it’s deemed shocking. For me, there’s something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. We’ve seen gay sex scenes before. I don’t know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene. Or both of them equally un-shocking.”