Rsell T Davi ss down wh Nick Leve to discs his new seri rooted the 80s Aids crisis, LGBTQ reprentatn on screen and straight actors playg gay characters
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- RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI ON QUEER ACTORS PLAYG STRAIGHT, GAY TORI, TV ERECTNS AND SPUNK
RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
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It's A S creator Rsell T Davi has strsed the importance of stg gay actors the rol of the gay male Channel 4 seri, starrg the lik of Olly Alexanr, Neil Patrick Harris, and Stephen Fry, is set durg the 1980s AIDS epimic and follows a group of young gay men who move to London.
“I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance. Authenticy is leadg to joyo plac, " he seri is loosely spired by Davi' own real-life experienc – jt like the three central characters It's A S, Davi was an 18-year-old gay man 1981, at the start of the AIDS crisis.
But the 1980s I kept my head down and worked a lot, I didn’t start gog out properly on the gay scene until I was my 30s, the 90s. What, a le up of gay characters played by a st of actual gay people? He plays Rchie, a young gay man om the Isle of Wight who’s not out to his parents.
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
He also prented BBC Three documentary Growg Up Gay, which is available on BBC iPlayer and well worth a watch. He is a young gay man, who’s fay effectively disown him after he out to them. Gregory is a gay man om Stland who don’t live the Pk Palace but is iends wh them all, particularly Jill and Rose.
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI ON QUEER ACTORS PLAYG STRAIGHT, GAY TORI, TV ERECTNS AND SPUNK
It’s A S Creator Rsell T Davi: “Cast Gay as Gay” | AnOtherIt’s A S, 2021(Film still)Rsell T Davi ss down wh Nick Leve to discs his new seri rooted the 80s Aids crisis, LGBTQ reprentatn on screen and straight actors playg gay charactersJanuary 20, 2021.
Sce he created the groundbreakg gay drama Queer as Folk 1999, the Swansea-born wrer has nsistently elevated LGBTQ reprentatn mastream TV. As gay mat Rchie (Olly Alexanr), Rose (Omari Douglas), Ash (Nathaniel Curtis) and Col (Callum Stt Howells), pl female iend Jill (Lydia Wt), lose iends and lovers to the disease, Davi pats a poignant portra of how to fe their liv.
NL: In episo four we see Nathaniel Curtis’s character Ash eviscerate Sectn 28, the Thatcher ernment’s barbaric legislatn prohibg the “promotn” of homosexualy schools. RTD: I thk would have been odd to have wrten a gay drama set the 80s wh no mentn of .