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BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd bSlZUC cmPkTr">May 25, 2023</time></div></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP dDDxdb lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz cLZrWU"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" 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data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">When <strong>Matt Bomer</strong> and <strong>Jonathan Bailey</strong> first met at a ffee shop on Cumberland Street Toronto, on the verge of begng six months of filmg for their s-spanng limed seri <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> they ma a pact to have each other’s backs. Sounds simple enough, given that they were about to embark on some of the richt screen work of their rpective reers. But over Zoom, both actors speak of that troductn now as almost sacred. Watch <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> and you’ll unrstand why. The Showtime epic picts an extraordary timacy between s lead characters, and asks for te vulnerabily om Bomer and Bailey, who liver whout promise.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Adapted by Osr nomee <strong>Ron Nyswaner</strong> (<em>Philalphia</em>) om <strong>Thomas Mallon</strong>’s 2007 novel, <em>Fellow Travelers</em> (premierg this fall on Paramount+ Wh Showtime) exam the volatile, passnate, eply lovg romance between Hawks Fuller (Bomer), a charismatic if somewhat opaque war hero turned polil staffer, and Tim Lghl (Bailey), a relig ialist lookg for his way to the DC grd. They meet at the dawn of the early-’50s Lavenr Sre, which Senator Joseph McCarthy and his chief unsel Roy Cohn purged whomever they emed gay or lbian om ernment rol—dubbg them munist sympathizers—and sparked a natnal moral panic around homosexualy. The seri then builds to a kd of grand chronicle of queer Amerin history, tracg the evolutn of Hawk and Tim’s relatnship through var eras before culmatg the AIDS epimic of the 1980s.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dScZLG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedWrapper-hNDkqw SqhAH" data-ttid="external-lk-embed--le"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedText-glBTSy kAxHEA"><a aria-label="<em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em>" class="external-lk external-lk-embed__hed-lk button" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ExternalLkEmbedHed-dSIMOS iUEiRd idpFCc ldPVhb"><em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em></span></a><svg class="ExternalLkEmbedArrowIn-kYztoV dQMQjq in in-arrow" focable="false" viewBox="0 0 32 32" width="32" height="32" xmlns="><tle>Arrow</tle><path d="M21.071 15L15 8.929l1.414-1.414L24.9 16l-8.485 8.485L15 23.071 21.071 17H8v-2z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></div><a aria-label="<em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em>" class="external-lk external-lk-embed__image-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ExternalLkEmbedRponsiveImage-iGydLQ dGzCDw rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w" siz="100vw"/></picture></a></div></div><p class="paywall">The project me to Bailey at a serendipo moment. For the first time his life, the breakout star of <em>Bridgerton</em> was mand and beg asked what he wanted to do next. “My answer was always, ‘Well, I’d love to do a sweepg gay love story,’ but my experience actually was that I’d never really seen them,” Bailey says. “Or if I had, I hadn’t seen actors like me and Matt play those rol.” (Both Bailey and Bomer intify as gay.) That dream opportuny abptly prented self <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> which Bailey joed after Bomer had already signed on as both star and executive producer. “The story had been maratg wh Ron for a solid before I ever me on board,” Bomer says. “Ron had an almost relig zeal about this project, this world, and the characters that jt washed over everyone volved, and ma the profound experience that was.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Nyswaner had already done nsirable rearch on <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> havg prevly planned to adapt the book as a film. He had more recently tablished himself prtige TV—wrg for Showtime dramas like <em>Homeland</em> and <em>Ray Donovan</em>—while ntug to work movi. His script for last year’s Amazon feature <em>My Policeman</em> troduced him to producer <strong>Robbie Rogers;</strong> Nyswaner sent Rogers the <em>Fellow Travelers</em> novel, which sparked a nversatn about makg a limed seri out of . “The ambn of gog through the different s and fdg a really pellg story—nothg like that had been done, where ’s an epic gay love story that has this polil element that’s woven through ,” says Rogers. </p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall"><em>Fellow Travelers</em> leav no stone unturned, expandg s world beyond Hawk and Tim to fashn an expansive historil taptry. A re parallel strand of the drama follows <strong>Jelani Allad</strong>’s Marc Hooks, a queer Black polil journalist fdg a new partner of his own (<strong>Noah J. Ricketts</strong>), while Nyswaner’s early episos also dig to the vic methods of McCarthy (a transformed <strong>Chris Ber</strong>) and the appallg hypocrisy of Cohn (<strong>Will Brill</strong>). “Somethg like <a href=">an timated 10,000 people lost their jobs</a>, and a lot of folks took their own liv,” Bomer says. “That’s the landspe that the people are alg wh.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp ckNnzI llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp paywall">But Hawk and Tim are our flawed, fascatg hero—wh <em>Fellow Travelers</em> cisively suatg their tense chemistry wh a broar polil ntext. The lh, sweepg, liberately old-fashned qualy of the filmmakg, templated by Emmy-wng director <strong>Daniel Mahan</strong> (<em>Amerin Crime Story</em>), ntrasts sharply wh the show’s credibly specific foc on one uple’s dynamic. That timate story is largely told, wh a surprisg and ccial boldns, through sex.</p><p class="paywall">“The nuance of a plited, volatile queer relatnship is the power balance—and that is what is amazg about Tim and Hawk,” Bailey says. “Every sgle sex scene is a meticulo examatn of power.” <em>Fellow Travelers</em> heats up as Hawk gets Tim a job workg for McCarthy—and tasks him wh spyg on the senator for tel on his tactics, and sights to his weakns. This give-and-take evably mov to the bedroom, the spac where the two men mt grapple wh not only their hidn blossomg love, but also the transactnal qualy of their bond. “There’s a level of tst and timacy that’s even more valuable when society is agast you,” Bomer says. “You keep your secrets together.” </p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The rultg sex scen, pturg a range of role plays, will rg as highly thentic to gay men, and mark uncharted terrory for mastream dramatic TV—even on a work like Showtime. “Not that will be shockg to people, but I hope when people watch , they’re like, ‘Oh, wow. They really went for ,’” Rogers says. The productn ma timacy ordators available to the st throughout filmg, and Bomer and Bailey felt an trsic tst wh each other, rooted that Cumberland Street pact. “I will be so terted to see how people rpond to ,” Bailey says. “To me, beg queer also is about, as two men, how you negotiate your givg of your body to the other person. That is somethg that I’ve always yearned to see properly done bee I know how extraordary is to experience .” </p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">At one pot, Bailey sent Bomer a vio of <a href="><strong>Torvill</strong> and <strong>Dean</strong>’s legendary “Bolero” ice dance</a>. “We’re two ice skaters dancg together— sort of felt like that,” Bailey says wh a lgh. Bomer chim : “It was really tertg to fd the different typ of exprsn of their love and timacy over the different time perds,” he says. “It was like openg a Christmas prent every time I would see Jonny a new time perd and see what he would brg to the table wh this new chapter of Tim’s life.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The show begs by shiftg between the ’50s and ’80s, but s latter half shak up the formula, hurtlg to perds of liberatn. In Hawk, Bomer charts the expansn of a man who’s partmentalized a val part of his beg for much of his life. “Love is dangero—’s a threat to his very existence, and Tim is really the only person who n challenge that,” he says. Over time, he marri a childhood iend, Lucy Smh (<strong>Allison Williams</strong>), while ntug to see Tim. The show do not ever st Tim a piable light, however. “He’s very pure, even though he’s always searchg for absolutn and tth, and he is fundamentally very clear on who he is,” Bailey says. “I uld see who that was.” </p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="2s56nd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The ’80s segment of the show, glimpsed through to the fal episo, opens wh the characters separated—wh their tense, heartbreakg rnn leadg to the narrative’s ncln. Over eight hours, the show ambly recreat everythg om ’50s DC to ’70s Fire Island to ’80s Bay Area—all Toronto and somehow, per Rogers, unr budget. The fal scen take place at the famed AIDS quilt, wh the productn signers thoroughly reimagg the inic Natnal Mall se. They had Cohn’s actual square on hand, and signed some others om scratch. “When you see , you won’t believe ,” Rogers teas. “You’ll be like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this looks like they shot DC.’”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp ckNnzI llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">By the time productn wrapped, Bailey and Bomer faced a fulfillg—if not easy—goodbye. “Jt gettg to play the character over the urse of 35 years—some of the scen that take place the last episo for me were such a re of passage terms of sayg goodbye to the character,” Bomer says. Adds Bailey, “It’s been jt the most joyo, emotnal, and also rmative experience I’ve had on a job. I’ve never grieved a character more.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="5btpfp"></div></div><p class="paywall">Well, kd of. Bailey actually filmed the third season of <em>Bridgerton</em> at the same time as <em>Fellow Travelers.</em> “I had a really weird time,” he says. At the time, he’d regularly mute between Canada and the UK. And for his last day makg <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> he worked through an emotnally drag 19-, maybe 20-hour shoot wh Bomer. The work bled to the weekend. Bailey fally left the set for the last time. And by Monday, he was back Regency-era England, transported 200 years to the past, character as Anthony Bridgerton. “When I say I grieved , I didn’t actually have any space to,” Bailey says now of <em>Fellow Travelers.</em> “But I still thk about Tim a lot.” Unrstandably—this is a life story that’ll stay wh you.</p><hr class="paywall"/><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="paywall headg-h3"><em>Listen to</em> Vany Fair’<em>s</em> Ltle Gold Men <em>podst now.</em></div><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ hSLYci"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="450" width="750" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig allow-popups allow-popups-to-pe-sandbox allow-forms allow-storage-accs-by-er-activatn allow-top-navigatn-by-er-activatn" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; 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FELLOW TRAVELERS: INSI MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY’S EPIC, SEXY ROMANCETHE TWO ACTORS GIVE THEIR ALL TO THIS S-SPANNG LIMED SERI, WHICH EXPLOR A GAY LOVE STORY WH BOLD—AND EXPLIC—CEMATIC SWEEP.BY DAVID CANFIELDMAY 25, 2023BY BEN MARK HOLZBERG/SHOWTIME.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN MATT BOMER AND JONATHAN BAILEY FIRST MET AT A FFEE SHOP ON CUMBERLAND STREET TORONTO, ON THE VERGE OF BEGNG SIX MONTHS OF FILMG FOR THEIR S-SPANNG LIMED SERI FELLOW TRAVELERS, THEY MA A PACT TO HAVE EACH OTHER’S BACKS. SOUNDS SIMPLE ENOUGH, GIVEN THAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO EMBARK ON SOME OF THE RICHT SCREEN WORK OF THEIR RPECTIVE REERS. BUT OVER ZOOM, BOTH ACTORS SPEAK OF THAT TRODUCTN NOW AS ALMOST SACRED. WATCH FELLOW TRAVELERS, AND YOU’LL UNRSTAND WHY. THE SHOWTIME EPIC PICTS AN EXTRAORDARY TIMACY BETWEEN S LEAD CHARACTERS, AND ASKS FOR TE VULNERABILY OM BOMER AND BAILEY, WHO LIVER WHOUT PROMISE.COURTY OF SHOWTIME.ADAPTED BY OSR NOMEE RON NYSWANER (PHILALPHIA) OM THOMAS MALLON’S 2007 NOVEL, FELLOW TRAVELERS (PREMIERG THIS FALL ON PARAMOUNT+ WH SHOWTIME) EXAM THE VOLATILE, PASSNATE, EPLY LOVG ROMANCE BETWEEN HAWKS FULLER (BOMER), A CHARISMATIC IF SOMEWHAT OPAQUE WAR HERO TURNED POLIL STAFFER, AND TIM LGHL (BAILEY), A RELIG IALIST LOOKG FOR HIS WAY TO THE DC GRD. THEY MEET AT THE DAWN OF THE EARLY-’50S LAVENR SRE, WHICH SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY AND HIS CHIEF UNSEL ROY COHN PURGED WHOMEVER THEY EMED GAY OR LBIAN OM ERNMENT ROL—DUBBG THEM MUNIST SYMPATHIZERS—AND SPARKED A NATNAL MORAL PANIC AROUND HOMOSEXUALY. THE SERI THEN BUILDS TO A KD OF GRAND CHRONICLE OF QUEER AMERIN HISTORY, TRACG THE EVOLUTN OF HAWK AND TIM’S RELATNSHIP THROUGH VAR ERAS BEFORE CULMATG THE AIDS EPIMIC OF THE 1980S.A GUI TO HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGT RACARROWTHE PROJECT ME TO BAILEY AT A SERENDIPO MOMENT. FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS LIFE, THE BREAKOUT STAR OF BRIDGERTON WAS MAND AND BEG ASKED WHAT HE WANTED TO DO NEXT. “MY ANSWER WAS ALWAYS, ‘WELL, I’D LOVE TO DO A SWEEPG GAY LOVE STORY,’ BUT MY EXPERIENCE ACTUALLY WAS THAT I’D NEVER REALLY SEEN THEM,” BAILEY SAYS. “OR IF I HAD, I HADN’T SEEN ACTORS LIKE ME AND MATT PLAY THOSE ROL.” (BOTH BAILEY AND BOMER INTIFY AS GAY.) THAT DREAM OPPORTUNY ABPTLY PRENTED SELF FELLOW TRAVELERS, WHICH BAILEY JOED AFTER BOMER HAD ALREADY SIGNED ON AS BOTH STAR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER. “THE STORY HAD BEEN MARATG WH RON FOR A SOLID BEFORE I EVER ME ON BOARD,” BOMER SAYS. “RON HAD AN ALMOST RELIG ZEAL ABOUT THIS PROJECT, THIS WORLD, AND THE CHARACTERS THAT JT WASHED OVER EVERYONE VOLVED, AND MA THE PROFOUND EXPERIENCE THAT WAS.”BY BEN MARK HOLZBERG/SHOWTIME.NYSWANER HAD ALREADY DONE NSIRABLE REARCH ON FELLOW TRAVELERS, HAVG PREVLY PLANNED TO ADAPT THE BOOK AS A FILM. HE HAD MORE RECENTLY TABLISHED HIMSELF PRTIGE TV—WRG FOR SHOWTIME DRAMAS LIKE HOMELAND AND RAY DONOVAN—WHILE NTUG TO WORK MOVI. HIS SCRIPT FOR LAST YEAR’S AMAZON FEATURE MY POLICEMAN TRODUCED HIM TO PRODUCER ROBBIE ROGERS; NYSWANER SENT ROGERS THE FELLOW TRAVELERS NOVEL, WHICH SPARKED A NVERSATN ABOUT MAKG A LIMED SERI OUT OF . “THE AMBN OF GOG THROUGH THE DIFFERENT S AND FDG A REALLY PELLG STORY—NOTHG LIKE THAT HAD BEEN DONE, WHERE ’S AN EPIC GAY LOVE STORY THAT HAS THIS POLIL ELEMENT THAT’S WOVEN THROUGH ,” SAYS ROGERS. FELLOW TRAVELERS LEAV NO STONE UNTURNED, EXPANDG S WORLD BEYOND HAWK AND TIM TO FASHN AN EXPANSIVE HISTORIL TAPTRY. A RE PARALLEL STRAND OF THE DRAMA FOLLOWS JELANI ALLAD’S MARC HOOKS, A QUEER BLACK POLIL JOURNALIST FDG A NEW PARTNER OF HIS OWN (NOAH J. RICKETTS), WHILE NYSWANER’S EARLY EPISOS ALSO DIG TO THE VIC METHODS OF MCCARTHY (A TRANSFORMED CHRIS BER) AND THE APPALLG HYPOCRISY OF COHN (WILL BRILL). “SOMETHG LIKE AN TIMATED 10,000 PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOBS, AND A LOT OF FOLKS TOOK THEIR OWN LIV,” BOMER SAYS. “THAT’S THE LANDSPE THAT THE PEOPLE ARE ALG WH.”BY BEN MARK HOLZBERG/SHOWTIME.COURTY OF SHOWTIME.BUT HAWK AND TIM ARE OUR FLAWED, FASCATG HERO—WH FELLOW TRAVELERS CISIVELY SUATG THEIR TENSE CHEMISTRY WH A BROAR POLIL NTEXT. THE LH, SWEEPG, LIBERATELY OLD-FASHNED QUALY OF THE FILMMAKG, TEMPLATED BY EMMY-WNG DIRECTOR DANIEL MAHAN (AMERIN CRIME STORY), NTRASTS SHARPLY WH THE SHOW’S CREDIBLY SPECIFIC FOC ON ONE UPLE’S DYNAMIC. THAT TIMATE STORY IS LARGELY TOLD, WH A SURPRISG AND CCIAL BOLDNS, THROUGH SEX.“THE NUANCE OF A PLITED, VOLATILE QUEER RELATNSHIP IS THE POWER BALANCE—AND THAT IS WHAT IS AMAZG ABOUT TIM AND HAWK,” BAILEY SAYS. “EVERY SGLE SEX SCENE IS A METICULO EXAMATN OF POWER.” FELLOW TRAVELERS HEATS UP AS HAWK GETS TIM A JOB WORKG FOR MCCARTHY—AND TASKS HIM WH SPYG ON THE SENATOR FOR TEL ON HIS TACTICS, AND SIGHTS TO HIS WEAKNS. THIS GIVE-AND-TAKE EVABLY MOV TO THE BEDROOM, THE SPAC WHERE THE TWO MEN MT GRAPPLE WH NOT ONLY THEIR HIDN BLOSSOMG LOVE, BUT ALSO THE TRANSACTNAL QUALY OF THEIR BOND. “THERE’S A LEVEL OF TST AND TIMACY THAT’S EVEN MORE VALUABLE WHEN SOCIETY IS AGAST YOU,” BOMER SAYS. “YOU KEEP YOUR SECRETS TOGETHER.” COURTY OF SHOWTIME.THE RULTG SEX SCEN, PTURG A RANGE OF ROLE PLAYS, WILL RG AS HIGHLY THENTIC TO GAY MEN, AND MARK UNCHARTED TERRORY FOR MASTREAM DRAMATIC TV—EVEN ON A WORK LIKE SHOWTIME. “NOT THAT WILL BE SHOCKG TO PEOPLE, BUT I HOPE WHEN PEOPLE WATCH , THEY’RE LIKE, ‘OH, WOW. THEY REALLY WENT FOR ,’” ROGERS SAYS. THE PRODUCTN MA TIMACY ORDATORS AVAILABLE TO THE ST THROUGHOUT FILMG, AND BOMER AND BAILEY FELT AN TRSIC TST WH EACH OTHER, ROOTED THAT CUMBERLAND STREET PACT. “I WILL BE SO TERTED TO SEE HOW PEOPLE RPOND TO ,” BAILEY SAYS. “TO ME, BEG QUEER ALSO IS ABOUT, AS TWO MEN, HOW YOU NEGOTIATE YOUR GIVG OF YOUR BODY TO THE OTHER PERSON. THAT IS SOMETHG THAT I’VE ALWAYS YEARNED TO SEE PROPERLY DONE BEE I KNOW HOW EXTRAORDARY IS TO EXPERIENCE .” AT ONE POT, BAILEY SENT BOMER A VIO OF TORVILL AND DEAN’S LEGENDARY “BOLERO” ICE DANCE. “WE’RE TWO ICE SKATERS DANCG TOGETHER— SORT OF FELT LIKE THAT,” BAILEY SAYS WH A LGH. BOMER CHIM : “IT WAS REALLY TERTG TO FD THE DIFFERENT TYP OF EXPRSN OF THEIR LOVE AND TIMACY OVER THE DIFFERENT TIME PERDS,” HE SAYS. “IT WAS LIKE OPENG A CHRISTMAS PRENT EVERY TIME I WOULD SEE JONNY A NEW TIME PERD AND SEE WHAT HE WOULD BRG TO THE TABLE WH THIS NEW CHAPTER OF TIM’S LIFE.”BY BEN MARK HOLZBERG/SHOWTIME.THE SHOW BEGS BY SHIFTG BETWEEN THE ’50S AND ’80S, BUT S LATTER HALF SHAK UP THE FORMULA, HURTLG TO PERDS OF LIBERATN. IN HAWK, BOMER CHARTS THE EXPANSN OF A MAN WHO’S PARTMENTALIZED A VAL PART OF HIS BEG FOR MUCH OF HIS LIFE. “LOVE IS DANGERO—’S A THREAT TO HIS VERY EXISTENCE, AND TIM IS REALLY THE ONLY PERSON WHO N CHALLENGE THAT,” HE SAYS. OVER TIME, HE MARRI A CHILDHOOD IEND, LUCY SMH (ALLISON WILLIAMS), WHILE NTUG TO SEE TIM. THE SHOW DO NOT EVER ST TIM A PIABLE LIGHT, HOWEVER. “HE’S VERY PURE, EVEN THOUGH HE’S ALWAYS SEARCHG FOR ABSOLUTN AND TTH, AND HE IS FUNDAMENTALLY VERY CLEAR ON WHO HE IS,” BAILEY SAYS. “I ULD SEE WHO THAT WAS.” THE ’80S SEGMENT OF THE SHOW, GLIMPSED THROUGH TO THE FAL EPISO, OPENS WH THE CHARACTERS SEPARATED—WH THEIR TENSE, HEARTBREAKG RNN LEADG TO THE NARRATIVE’S NCLN. OVER EIGHT HOURS, THE SHOW AMBLY RECREAT EVERYTHG OM ’50S DC TO ’70S FIRE ISLAND TO ’80S BAY AREA—ALL TORONTO AND SOMEHOW, PER ROGERS, UNR BUDGET. THE FAL SCEN TAKE PLACE AT THE FAMED AIDS QUILT, WH THE PRODUCTN SIGNERS THOROUGHLY REIMAGG THE INIC NATNAL MALL SE. THEY HAD COHN’S ACTUAL SQUARE ON HAND, AND SIGNED SOME OTHERS OM SCRATCH. “WHEN YOU SEE , YOU WON’T BELIEVE ,” ROGERS TEAS. “YOU’LL BE LIKE, ‘OH, MY GOSH, THIS LOOKS LIKE THEY SHOT DC.’”COURTY OF SHOWTIME.COURTY OF SHOWTIME.BY THE TIME PRODUCTN WRAPPED, BAILEY AND BOMER FACED A FULFILLG—IF NOT EASY—GOODBYE. “JT GETTG TO PLAY THE CHARACTER OVER THE URSE OF 35 YEARS—SOME OF THE SCEN THAT TAKE PLACE THE LAST EPISO FOR ME WERE SUCH A RE OF PASSAGE TERMS OF SAYG GOODBYE TO THE CHARACTER,” BOMER SAYS. ADDS BAILEY, “IT’S BEEN JT THE MOST JOYO, EMOTNAL, AND ALSO RMATIVE EXPERIENCE I’VE HAD ON A JOB. I’VE NEVER GRIEVED A CHARACTER MORE.”WELL, KD OF. BAILEY ACTUALLY FILMED THE THIRD SEASON OF BRIDGERTON AT THE SAME TIME AS FELLOW TRAVELERS. “I HAD A REALLY WEIRD TIME,” HE SAYS. AT THE TIME, HE’D REGULARLY MUTE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UK. AND FOR HIS LAST DAY MAKG FELLOW TRAVELERS, HE WORKED THROUGH AN EMOTNALLY DRAG 19-, MAYBE 20-HOUR SHOOT WH BOMER. THE WORK BLED TO THE WEEKEND. BAILEY FALLY LEFT THE SET FOR THE LAST TIME. AND BY MONDAY, HE WAS BACK REGENCY-ERA ENGLAND, TRANSPORTED 200 YEARS TO THE PAST, CHARACTER AS ANTHONY BRIDGERTON. “WHEN I SAY I GRIEVED , I DIDN’T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY SPACE TO,” BAILEY SAYS NOW OF FELLOW TRAVELERS. “BUT I STILL THK ABOUT TIM A LOT.” UNRSTANDABLY—THIS IS A LIFE STORY THAT’LL STAY WH YOU.LISTEN TO VANY FAIR’S LTLE GOLD MEN PODST NOW.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRPHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE ON HER “SURREAL” JOURNEY FROM FLEABAG TO INDIANA JONTHE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)DAVID CANFIELD

The two actors give their all to this s-spanng limed seri, which explor a gay love story wh bold—and explic—cematic sweep. * matt bomer gay pics *

Twter was on fire this weekend, as some pics of TV hunks Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer takg off their shirts and gettg wet and wild short shorts Lake Ontar while filmg scen for their upg gay romance seri for Showtime, Fellow a seri of photos, we see Bomer and Bailey, both takg their shirts off and roughhog the shallow water as wav splash around them.

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‘WHE COLLAR’S’ MATT BOMER OFFICIALLY COM OUT AS GAY AT AWARDS SHOW (VIO)

Whe Collar actor Matt Bomer recently discsed his marriage and his journey to g out as gay an terview wh Out magaze. Bomer revealed&hellip; * matt bomer gay pics *

1662974798If you uldn't already gus om the pics, the show will be very gay. "Osr nomee Ron Nyswaner (Philalphia) is wrg the eight-episo limed seri, and gay director Daniel Mihan (Deadwood) is executive producg and will direct the first two episos.

They meet at the dawn of the early-’50s Lavenr Sre, which Senator Joseph McCarthy and his chief unsel Roy Cohn purged whomever they emed gay or lbian om ernment rol—dubbg them munist sympathizers—and sparked a natnal moral panic around homosexualy. “My answer was always, ‘Well, I’d love to do a sweepg gay love story, ’ but my experience actually was that I’d never really seen them, ” Bailey says. ” (Both Bailey and Bomer intify as gay.

“The ambn of gog through the different s and fdg a really pellg story—nothg like that had been done, where ’s an epic gay love story that has this polil element that’s woven through , ” says Rogers.

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data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp">When <strong>Matt Bomer</strong> and <strong>Jonathan Bailey</strong> first met at a ffee shop on Cumberland Street Toronto, on the verge of begng six months of filmg for their s-spanng limed seri <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> they ma a pact to have each other’s backs. Sounds simple enough, given that they were about to embark on some of the richt screen work of their rpective reers. But over Zoom, both actors speak of that troductn now as almost sacred. Watch <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> and you’ll unrstand why. The Showtime epic picts an extraordary timacy between s lead characters, and asks for te vulnerabily om Bomer and Bailey, who liver whout promise.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Adapted by Osr nomee <strong>Ron Nyswaner</strong> (<em>Philalphia</em>) om <strong>Thomas Mallon</strong>’s 2007 novel, <em>Fellow Travelers</em> (premierg this fall on Paramount+ Wh Showtime) exam the volatile, passnate, eply lovg romance between Hawks Fuller (Bomer), a charismatic if somewhat opaque war hero turned polil staffer, and Tim Lghl (Bailey), a relig ialist lookg for his way to the DC grd. They meet at the dawn of the early-’50s Lavenr Sre, which Senator Joseph McCarthy and his chief unsel Roy Cohn purged whomever they emed gay or lbian om ernment rol—dubbg them munist sympathizers—and sparked a natnal moral panic around homosexualy. The seri then builds to a kd of grand chronicle of queer Amerin history, tracg the evolutn of Hawk and Tim’s relatnship through var eras before culmatg the AIDS epimic of the 1980s.</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dScZLG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedWrapper-hNDkqw SqhAH" data-ttid="external-lk-embed--le"><div class="ExternalLkEmbedText-glBTSy kAxHEA"><a aria-label="<em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em>" class="external-lk external-lk-embed__hed-lk button" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ExternalLkEmbedHed-dSIMOS iUEiRd idpFCc ldPVhb"><em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em></span></a><svg class="ExternalLkEmbedArrowIn-kYztoV dQMQjq in in-arrow" focable="false" viewBox="0 0 32 32" width="32" height="32" xmlns="><tle>Arrow</tle><path d="M21.071 15L15 8.929l1.414-1.414L24.9 16l-8.485 8.485L15 23.071 21.071 17H8v-2z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></div><a aria-label="<em>A gui to Hollywood’s biggt rac</em>" class="external-lk external-lk-embed__image-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ExternalLkEmbedRponsiveImage-iGydLQ dGzCDw rponsive-image"><img alt="" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w" siz="100vw"/></picture></a></div></div><p class="paywall">The project me to Bailey at a serendipo moment. For the first time his life, the breakout star of <em>Bridgerton</em> was mand and beg asked what he wanted to do next. “My answer was always, ‘Well, I’d love to do a sweepg gay love story,’ but my experience actually was that I’d never really seen them,” Bailey says. “Or if I had, I hadn’t seen actors like me and Matt play those rol.” (Both Bailey and Bomer intify as gay.) That dream opportuny abptly prented self <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> which Bailey joed after Bomer had already signed on as both star and executive producer. “The story had been maratg wh Ron for a solid before I ever me on board,” Bomer says. “Ron had an almost relig zeal about this project, this world, and the characters that jt washed over everyone volved, and ma the profound experience that was.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">Nyswaner had already done nsirable rearch on <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> havg prevly planned to adapt the book as a film. He had more recently tablished himself prtige TV—wrg for Showtime dramas like <em>Homeland</em> and <em>Ray Donovan</em>—while ntug to work movi. His script for last year’s Amazon feature <em>My Policeman</em> troduced him to producer <strong>Robbie Rogers;</strong> Nyswaner sent Rogers the <em>Fellow Travelers</em> novel, which sparked a nversatn about makg a limed seri out of . “The ambn of gog through the different s and fdg a really pellg story—nothg like that had been done, where ’s an epic gay love story that has this polil element that’s woven through ,” says Rogers. </p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p class="paywall"><em>Fellow Travelers</em> leav no stone unturned, expandg s world beyond Hawk and Tim to fashn an expansive historil taptry. A re parallel strand of the drama follows <strong>Jelani Allad</strong>’s Marc Hooks, a queer Black polil journalist fdg a new partner of his own (<strong>Noah J. Ricketts</strong>), while Nyswaner’s early episos also dig to the vic methods of McCarthy (a transformed <strong>Chris Ber</strong>) and the appallg hypocrisy of Cohn (<strong>Will Brill</strong>). “Somethg like <a href=">an timated 10,000 people lost their jobs</a>, and a lot of folks took their own liv,” Bomer says. “That’s the landspe that the people are alg wh.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp ckNnzI llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="has-dropp paywall">But Hawk and Tim are our flawed, fascatg hero—wh <em>Fellow Travelers</em> cisively suatg their tense chemistry wh a broar polil ntext. The lh, sweepg, liberately old-fashned qualy of the filmmakg, templated by Emmy-wng director <strong>Daniel Mahan</strong> (<em>Amerin Crime Story</em>), ntrasts sharply wh the show’s credibly specific foc on one uple’s dynamic. That timate story is largely told, wh a surprisg and ccial boldns, through sex.</p><p class="paywall">“The nuance of a plited, volatile queer relatnship is the power balance—and that is what is amazg about Tim and Hawk,” Bailey says. “Every sgle sex scene is a meticulo examatn of power.” <em>Fellow Travelers</em> heats up as Hawk gets Tim a job workg for McCarthy—and tasks him wh spyg on the senator for tel on his tactics, and sights to his weakns. This give-and-take evably mov to the bedroom, the spac where the two men mt grapple wh not only their hidn blossomg love, but also the transactnal qualy of their bond. “There’s a level of tst and timacy that’s even more valuable when society is agast you,” Bomer says. “You keep your secrets together.” </p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The rultg sex scen, pturg a range of role plays, will rg as highly thentic to gay men, and mark uncharted terrory for mastream dramatic TV—even on a work like Showtime. “Not that will be shockg to people, but I hope when people watch , they’re like, ‘Oh, wow. They really went for ,’” Rogers says. The productn ma timacy ordators available to the st throughout filmg, and Bomer and Bailey felt an trsic tst wh each other, rooted that Cumberland Street pact. “I will be so terted to see how people rpond to ,” Bailey says. “To me, beg queer also is about, as two men, how you negotiate your givg of your body to the other person. That is somethg that I’ve always yearned to see properly done bee I know how extraordary is to experience .” </p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p class="paywall">At one pot, Bailey sent Bomer a vio of <a href="><strong>Torvill</strong> and <strong>Dean</strong>’s legendary “Bolero” ice dance</a>. “We’re two ice skaters dancg together— sort of felt like that,” Bailey says wh a lgh. Bomer chim : “It was really tertg to fd the different typ of exprsn of their love and timacy over the different time perds,” he says. “It was like openg a Christmas prent every time I would see Jonny a new time perd and see what he would brg to the table wh this new chapter of Tim’s life.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn fSugUG llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">By Ben Mark Holzberg/SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The show begs by shiftg between the ’50s and ’80s, but s latter half shak up the formula, hurtlg to perds of liberatn. In Hawk, Bomer charts the expansn of a man who’s partmentalized a val part of his beg for much of his life. “Love is dangero—’s a threat to his very existence, and Tim is really the only person who n challenge that,” he says. Over time, he marri a childhood iend, Lucy Smh (<strong>Allison Williams</strong>), while ntug to see Tim. The show do not ever st Tim a piable light, however. “He’s very pure, even though he’s always searchg for absolutn and tth, and he is fundamentally very clear on who he is,” Bailey says. “I uld see who that was.” </p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="2s56nd"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">The ’80s segment of the show, glimpsed through to the fal episo, opens wh the characters separated—wh their tense, heartbreakg rnn leadg to the narrative’s ncln. Over eight hours, the show ambly recreat everythg om ’50s DC to ’70s Fire Island to ’80s Bay Area—all Toronto and somehow, per Rogers, unr budget. The fal scen take place at the famed AIDS quilt, wh the productn signers thoroughly reimagg the inic Natnal Mall se. They had Cohn’s actual square on hand, and signed some others om scratch. “When you see , you won’t believe ,” Rogers teas. “You’ll be like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this looks like they shot DC.’”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa fPFMfO body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT cRYbKS"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp ckNnzI llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="‘Fellow Travelers Insi Matt Bomer and Jonathan Baileys Epic Sexy Romance" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE kIXbGQ ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW ptn__cred">Courty of SHOWTIME.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dEQjuV body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p class="paywall">By the time productn wrapped, Bailey and Bomer faced a fulfillg—if not easy—goodbye. “Jt gettg to play the character over the urse of 35 years—some of the scen that take place the last episo for me were such a re of passage terms of sayg goodbye to the character,” Bomer says. Adds Bailey, “It’s been jt the most joyo, emotnal, and also rmative experience I’ve had on a job. I’ve never grieved a character more.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="5btpfp"></div></div><p class="paywall">Well, kd of. Bailey actually filmed the third season of <em>Bridgerton</em> at the same time as <em>Fellow Travelers.</em> “I had a really weird time,” he says. At the time, he’d regularly mute between Canada and the UK. And for his last day makg <em>Fellow Travelers,</em> he worked through an emotnally drag 19-, maybe 20-hour shoot wh Bomer. The work bled to the weekend. Bailey fally left the set for the last time. And by Monday, he was back Regency-era England, transported 200 years to the past, character as Anthony Bridgerton. “When I say I grieved , I didn’t actually have any space to,” Bailey says now of <em>Fellow Travelers.</em> “But I still thk about Tim a lot.” Unrstandably—this is a life story that’ll stay wh you.</p><hr class="paywall"/><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="paywall headg-h3"><em>Listen to</em> Vany Fair’<em>s</em> Ltle Gold Men <em>podst now.</em></div><figure data-ttid="IameEmbed" class="IameEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZiq iame-embed"><div data-ttid="IameEmbedContaer" class="IameEmbedContaer-hptgUZ hSLYci"><div class="IameEmbedAspectRatWrapper-hFVJps BKpgQ"><iame class="IameEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IameEmbedContent lazyload" height="450" width="750" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-orig allow-popups allow-popups-to-pe-sandbox allow-forms allow-storage-accs-by-er-activatn allow-top-navigatn-by-er-activatn" tle="Embedd Frame" data-src=" allow="toplay *; encrypted-media *; 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