After his gross-out satire The Interview threatened to trigger a third world war, the actor/director/artist/novelist shot a subtle drama about a gay activist who be a straight pastor. He speaks to Ryan Gilbey about phg the lims
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JAM FRAN SAYS HE'S 'A LTLE GAY'
"There is a b of overfocg on my sexualy, both by the straight prs and the gay prs ... why do they re?" * gay franco *
Jam Fran’s sexualy has been the subject of much speculatn, cludg by Jam Fran; the actor/artist/thor once nducted an terview between his straight and gay selv. In a New York Magaze terview published the April 18 issue, the actor once aga elaborated on the subject, scribg himself as “a ltle gay. ” Notg that Fran has said he’s “gay my art and straight my life, ” the terviewer asks Fran to expla whether he’s not also gay his life, potg out that some gay men have lled him “kd of a gay c—k tease.
There is a b of overfocg on my sexualy, both by the straight prs and the gay prs, and so the first qutn is why do they re? But if your fn of gay and straight is who I sleep wh, then I gus you uld say I’m a gay c—k tease. Yeah, I’m a ltle gay, and there’s a gay Jam.
A ‘CISG’ HOMAGE, AND 5 OTHER GAY-THEMED JAM FRAN PROJECTS
Is he gay? Do you still re? Did you ever? * gay franco *
“Jam Fran plays gay! The actor has taken on enough gay parts (cludg Allen Gsberg Howl and the activist Stt Smh Milk) and addrsed gay them so equently his own directg work (such as Sal and Interr.
Where more circumspect performers ve speculatn through their very utns, there n be few people who even re any more about whether or not Fran is I Am Michael, one of the six or seven new films which this prolific actor will be seen this year, is no straightforward gay movie. Soon Glatze had nounced his former life to bee an anti-gay Christian pastor.
Until that pot I’d read all his anti-gay rants so was que hard to re about him. “He had been so public as a gay activist, and maybe there was this misguid need to burn down everythg he was before. Photograph: Snap Stills/REXPerhaps homosexualy wasn’t even part of Glatze’s problem.
* gay franco *
” For Kelly, that was a al-breaker: “Had Michael been unhappy his gay life, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to do the movie. ”What is missed emphasisg Fran’s own tert gay subject matter is that is the fluidy of inty, rather than sexualy alone, that stimulat him. Glatze n’t see what’s wrong wh a formerly gay man proclaimg “Turn or burn!
’ Not even the homophobic stuff, jt … nuts! Nowhere is this more apparent than the crisis pots of I Am Michael, all of which rt on tight close-ups of the star: the shower followg a health sre, starg at a gay uple the supermarket or wag church to greet his first ngregatn. “Wh one day we might shoot gay Michael wh blond hair, then gay Michael wh brown hair, then straight Michael.