In “Swan Song,” the acclaimed German actor plays a character whose gay history mirrors his own ntributns to queerg the movi
Contents:
- INTERVIEW: UDO KIER ON SWAN SONG, EMBODYG MR. PAT, AND BEG A GAY IN
- 'SWAN SONG' IS A 'LOVE LETTER' TO DISAPPEARG GAY CULTURE, DIRECTOR SAYS
INTERVIEW: UDO KIER ON SWAN SONG, EMBODYG MR. PAT, AND BEG A GAY IN
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People have told me about gog to to a gay bar, [and] they had to [stand] ont of the door and look right and left to make sure nobody saw them gog .
Pat mak p stops at the se where his hoe once stood, the salon n by his former employee-turned-rival (Jennifer Coolidge), and even the gay bar he ed to stt through like a kg (or drag queen, rather). Pat and an old iend are remiscg when he remarks, “I don’t even know how to be gay anymore.
It’s a lovely acknowledgment of the bt today’s LGBTQ2S+ people owe to earlier generatns of gay men, particularly nelly queens like Pat, known to most as Mr. The acknowledgment of queer legaci the film is particularly ronant given that s star is an out, gay actor who’s ma approximately 200 films over more than half a century.
'SWAN SONG' IS A 'LOVE LETTER' TO DISAPPEARG GAY CULTURE, DIRECTOR SAYS
Film in Udo Kier has received some of the bt reviews of his reer for playg a retired gay hairdrser 'Swan Song.' * is udo kier gay *
While studyg England, the young, extraordarily handsome Kier was spotted by gay mil entreprenr Robert Stigwood.
A meetg wh gay director Van Sant at the Berl Film Ftival led to My Own Private Idaho 1991, his first U.