John Lhgow talks Love is Strange and why he and Aled Mola make a great gay uple | SBS What's On

Contents:

• IS JOHN LHGOW GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
• ALED MOLA TALKS 'LOVE IS STRANGE,' JOHN LHGOW, AND GAY POP CULTURE
• IS JOHN LHGOW GAY?
• JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’
• JOHN LHGOW ON THE SUNDANCE FILM ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ AND GAY RIGHTS UTAH
• 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

IS JOHN LHGOW GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

Is John Lhgow Gay? When to John Lhgow’s sexual orientatn he is straight and is neher gay nor bisexual. Want to know if John Lhgow is Gay or not?

As per celebwikigossip, John Lhgow isn’t gay. Sexualy - Gay or Nay. Correct our wiki/b - is he not gay or straight or of different herage?

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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? Nowadays, there is no answer to the qutn -John Lhgow is gay? Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that John Lhgow is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

Celebri such as John Lhgow never have admted they are homosexual, this is bee they are fely not gay or bee they are and don't want to go public. John Lhgow plays a gay man a 39-year relatnship wh his life partner and love of his life, played by Aled Mola, Ira Sachs' new film, "Love Is Strange. I gus I was a ltle b self-nsc about playg a gay relatnship, but only fleetgly.

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

Until then, you thought maybe Joey was gay. And there is this very tertg tth now that young people accept homosexualy far more than olr, to tell you the tth, that song that you loved at the piano the begng, that was origally supposed to be the 1950s R&B song “Love Is Strange. " "Love Is Strange, " which stars Lhgow and Aled Mola as a married gay uple, is already receivg rave reviews ahead of s Aug.

John Lhgow and Aled Mola betifully play a gay uple of 39 years who are forced to live temporarily apart Ira Sach’s btersweet edy-drama “Love Is Strange. Gee, who is his late 60s, unfortably occupi the uch of their former neighbors, a uple of much younger gay ps (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez).

In a sgle exquisely wrten scene set a Greenwich Village bar, you get a vivid sense of Gee and Ben’s entire liv together — if not the liv of an entire generatn of gay New Yorkers, many of them already sadly gone. Directed by openly gay filmmaker Ira Sachs, the movie centers on Ben (John Lhgow) and Gee (Aled Mola), a uple of nearly forty years who are forced to live apart after Gee is fired om his job as a chos teacher at a Catholic school for marryg his partner.

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

Meanwhile, Gee is forced to sleep on the uch of Ted (Cheyenne Jackson), Ben’s other nephew and a hard-partyg gay p. 20, a feral district judge overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage, emg the law unnstutnal. Goln Globe and Emmy-wng actor John Lhgow, who’s long been a proponent for marriage equaly, sat down wh to discs his new film, the gay rights movement, and much more.

I was walkg to the Eccl Theater yterday to see the premiere screeng of Love Is Strange and, sce doubl as a high school, the two young girls, who uldn’t have been olr than 15, had set up a ltle table outsi for the Gay Straight Alliance. That’s the film is premierg here Utah, sce ’s bee a battleground state the fight for gay rights. It didn’t ed to be a battle bee no one had the urage to e out or to clare himself or herself as gay.

I’m not a gay man, but I grew up a world of gay men and women the theater and the arts. Some of my bt iends—no, I would say my bt iends—are gay people, so I’ve grown up a very acceptg mo wh homosexualy.