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
• JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’
• JOHN LHGOW TALKS LOVE IS STRANGE AND WHY HE AND ALED MOLA MAKE A GREAT GAY UPLE
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• IS JOHN LHGOW GAY?
• 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’

IS JOHN LHGOW GAY? AGE, HEIGHT, NET WORTH

Brandon Ambroso: Is there any difference your approach to playg a love story vers playg a gay love story? 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. Brandon Ambroso: There's been some discsn lately over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol.

Do you thk there's anythg to the fact that popular gay-themed stori are featurg olr gay men as their protagonists?

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

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. Brandon Ambroso: There's a mor gog around that your -star Cheyenne Jackson, who's a fabulo gay in —.

Brandon Ambroso: Well, I heard that he tght you some — as the New York Tim put — gay nomenclature.

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

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.

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

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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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).

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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. 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.

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. 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....

IS JOHN LHGOW GAY?

”The 68-year-old actor who seems partly English – “I’m a strange hybrid, there a’t many like me, ” he pronounc – now stars as half of a married gay uple wh Brish actor Aled Mola Ira Sachs’s, one of the hs of Sundance this year. Read allAfter Ben and Gee get married, Gee is fired om his teachg post, forcg them to stay wh iends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper hog -- a suatn that weighs heavily on all Ben and Gee get married, Gee is fired om his teachg post, forcg them to stay wh iends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper hog -- a suatn that weighs heavily on all productn, box office & pany Vios9More like thisReview A film about gay love and marriage NYC and the plitns affectg many liv that ensue after the IS STRANGE, a film, unaffectedly directed by Ira Sachs, is so natural and unassumg s portrayal of relatnships that the divi between dience and the characters on the screen disappears; we are directly slippg to their liv wh the ease of faiary.

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

There is a formal bety to the movie, thanks to the cematography of Christos Voudouris - the way he ptur each space - leated not only through dér, but through the light which mutat wh the atmosphere, very much like a Chard still-life patg, classic s granur and plot revolv around two gay men who have lived together for 39 years and fally get married, a cisn that will alter their liv ways that are unexpected and transformg. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

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.

A recently married gay uple (John Lhgow, Aled Mola) are forced to move to separate hoeholds after they lose their home.

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

A gay uple is forced to move to separate apartments when their marriage threatens the sensibili of one's employer. While the film is "issue-driven, " alg wh the jtic flicted agast gays and the affordabily of real tate Manhattan, stays foced on the characters, which is s primary strength. 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.

Meanwhile, Gee is forced to sleep on the uch of Ted (Cheyenne Jackson), Ben’s other nephew and a hard-partyg gay p.