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Contents:
- ALED MOLA ON PLAYG A WONRFULLY CSTY OLD GAY MAN
- ALED MOLA TALKS 'LOVE IS STRANGE,' JOHN LHGOW, AND GAY POP CULTURE
- MICHAEL GAMBON & ALED MOLA AS GAY COUPLE IN ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ FROM ‘KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’ DIRECTOR IRA SACHS
- ALED MOLA GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 77 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
- WHICH STRAIGHT ACTOR REALLY "PLAYED GAY" WELL?
- JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’
ALED MOLA ON PLAYG A WONRFULLY CSTY OLD GAY MAN
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Toled jeans, lumberjack shirt and parka, he apologis for havg arrived a few mut late, and over the next two hours discs his two s Hollywood, the nearly three s between two semal gay rol, and the ravag of time – particular, of Alzheimer’s – on the love of his life, Jill his new film, Love Is Strange, which opens Bra Febary, Mola and John Lhgow play a New York uple who have been together for 39 years. ” Gayns was not the pot.
”It is a marked ntrast to Prick Up Your Ears, the 1987 Stephen Frears film about the semi-clanste relatnship between the playwright Joe Orton and Kenh Halliwell homophobic 1960s England. “There’s been a huge shift gay polics and equal rights.
ALED MOLA TALKS 'LOVE IS STRANGE,' JOHN LHGOW, AND GAY POP CULTURE
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Photograph: ITV/RexThe two rol some ways bookend the gay-rights stggle. ”He do not thk only gay actors should play gay rol, or vice versa.
”Aled Mola: ‘Films about gay people tend to be about young, betiful people. Inevable tensns emerge wh their accint rather than sign, this film about a happily married gay uple emerg here at a signifint The Irish Tim Film Show Tara Brady reviews the much-anticipated 'Fifty Shas of Grey', but was worth the wa? Films about gay people, whether men or women, tend to be about very young, very betiful people.
MICHAEL GAMBON & ALED MOLA AS GAY COUPLE IN ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’ FROM ‘KEEP THE LIGHTS ON’ DIRECTOR IRA SACHS
Many of the gay mors surroundg Aled Mola (The Da Vci Co, Spir-Man 2) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most actors. However the poll suggts that a big majory (77%) of rponnts don't believe that he’s gay. * is alfred molina gay *
It's a small role, but people still yell his few l at up Your Ears (1987) In this very different study of a gay relatnship to that Love Is Strange, Mola is poignant and hilar as Joe Orton's tormented lover, Kenh Nights (1997) A small but hugely signifint role. 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. Brandon Ambroso: There's been some discsn lately over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol.
ALED MOLA GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 77 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
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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.
WHICH STRAIGHT ACTOR REALLY "PLAYED GAY" WELL?
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. 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 —.
JOHN LHGOW, ALED MOLA SHE AS GAY UPLE ‘LOVE IS STRANGE’
Aled Mola: Cheyenne Jackson is gay? Brandon Ambroso: Well, I heard that he tght you some — as the New York Tim put — gay nomenclature. 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? Productn pany Parts and Labor has announced “Keep The Lights On” director Ira Sachs’ next project — an NYC-set romantic drama entled “Love Is Strange, ” starrg Michael Gambon and Aled Mola as a gay uple.
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