Aled Mola talks 'Love is Strange,' John Lhgow, and gay pop culture - Vox

Contents:

• ALED MOLA TALKS 'LOVE IS STRANGE,' JOHN LHGOW, AND GAY POP CULTURE
• IS JOHN LHGOW GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• IS JOHN LHGOW GAY?
• JOHN LHGOW TALKS LOVE IS STRANGE AND WHY HE AND ALED MOLA MAKE A GREAT GAY UPLE
• JOHN LHGOW ON THE SUNDANCE FILM ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ AND GAY RIGHTS UTAH
• FIRST LOOK: JOHN LHGOW AND ALED MOLA AS GAY GROOMS ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’
• JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’

ALED MOLA TALKS 'LOVE IS STRANGE,' JOHN LHGOW, AND GAY POP CULTURE

Brandon Ambroso: Is there any difference your approach to playg a love story vers playg a gay love story? Gay men and women don't fall love or experience love any differently om anyone else. So no, when you're playg a role wh someone who is a long-term relatnship, then is separated om that long-term partner, the pa or anguish or disfort or unhapps you feel will always be playable, bee 's the same for everyone, whether they're gay or straight.

IS JOHN LHGOW GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

Brandon Ambroso: There's been some discsn lately over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol. Some feel that gay rol should be rerved strictly for gay actors, and some disagree.

IS JOHN LHGOW GAY?

Aled Mola: Well, how would they feel if they were told that gay actors uld not play straight rol?

JOHN LHGOW TALKS LOVE IS STRANGE AND WHY HE AND ALED MOLA MAKE A GREAT GAY UPLE

Brandon Ambroso: That PBS s is all about the 49 year-long relatnship of two gay men. Your film, while not a edy, is siarly about love shared between two olr gay men. Do you thk there's anythg to the fact that popular gay-themed stori are featurg olr gay men as their protagonists?

I n remember a time when playg a gay character, or even jt dog films wh a gay theme, were really very risky thgs to do — not a polil sense, but jt risky at box office. There are still many, many people who are ristg the notn of gay them beg part of the mastream, but 's changg.

But I thk what's cur is that even wh gay-themed movi and televisn shows, 's ually [about] people at the younger end of the age spectm.

JOHN LHGOW ON THE SUNDANCE FILM ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ AND GAY RIGHTS UTAH

It's gay upl strivg to fd themselv or each other or their place world.

FIRST LOOK: JOHN LHGOW AND ALED MOLA AS GAY GROOMS ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’

I thk [Love is Strange] has a universal view — 's not jt about beg gay. Brandon Ambroso: There's a mor gog around that your -star Cheyenne Jackson, who's a fabulo gay in —.

Aled Mola: Cheyenne Jackson is gay? Brandon Ambroso: Well, I heard that he tght you some — as the New York Tim put — gay nomenclature. Aled Mola: So, not beg gay myself, I'm not pletely [faiar] wh the subtleti of gay culture.

I said to him, "If I was gay, what would I be? Lhgow and Mola play Ben and Gee, a gay uple who get married New York after 39 years together. Interview Highlights On the cramped New York apartment they share at the begng of the film — which actually belonged to a gay uple who had been together longer than Ben and Gee Mola: They'd been together for a long, long time.

JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’

On the history the uple has wnsed durg their 40-year relatnship Lhgow: It's a gay relatnship that's been gog on for 40 years — the have been 40 extraordary years our cultural history. On playg gay characters the past Mola: When we were shootg Prick Up Your Ears...

I remember havg discsns wh very ser people — telligent people — who were wonrg if my choice to play a gay character was gog to have a bad effect on my reer.

Lhgow: You thk of major breakthrough films on gay them like Brokeback Mounta or Milk or Longtime Compann or Prick Up Your Ears -- all of them volve crisis and torment and equently ath — sometim murr and assassatn....