Scenes of explicit interhorse

One for the Potterites amongst us (brought to my attention by an equally incredulous ):

Naked stage role for Potter star Daniel Radcliffe

Radcliffe has starred in four Potter films and is now making a fifth
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is to appear on the London stage next year, playing a stable boy who has an erotic relationship with his horses.

Richard Griffiths will co-star in the revival of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play Equus, to open in the capital in March.

Radcliffe and Griffiths are currently shooting the fifth Harry Potter film.

The role will require Radcliffe, 17, to appear naked and symbolically blind six horses. […]

[From the BBC]

That said, I was first shown the 1977 version while an impressionable fourteen year old; my slightly naive form teacher decided that he was going to introduce the class to Culture, starting with that film, and going on to Mahler and Wagner.

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