We chat about his approach to a gay in his wildly amb new film.
Contents:
- THE WHE CROW FACED “HOSTILY” OM RSIAN THORI OVER GAY SCEN
- ALEX OVECHK ON RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS: ‘I JT SUPPORT EVERYBODY’
THE WHE CROW FACED “HOSTILY” OM RSIAN THORI OVER GAY SCEN
* is oleg ivenko gay *
Speakg to Gay Tim, screenwrer David Hare revealed that the film faced “hostily” om Rsian thori bee of Nureyev’s sexualy, which is hted at (though never directly spoken about) at several pots the film.
ALEX OVECHK ON RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS: ‘I JT SUPPORT EVERYBODY’
First of all, bee he fected om the Soviet Unn, so he’s chiefly known as someone who left the Soviet Unn, and sendly bee he was homosexual. “It’s unrstood that his first gay timate iendship was probably Lengrad wh a young East German dancer, was a iendship as well as a love affair. “Clearly, later his life he was an unapologetilly gay man, but where our story fish wh his fectn, I thk we are portrayg a man who is learng who he is.
“He’s sudnly realisg that he is an emergg gay man, havg the nfince to reach for who he is, both as an artist and as a sexual human beg.