The long-nng whodunn returns wh much ctomary rose-ttg of the past and a swoon-worthy Tom Brtney – before a surprisg segue to the plight of gay men the 1950s
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- GRANTCHTER’S AL WEAVER REVEALS EMOTNAL TOLL OF FILMG LEONARD’S ARRT FOR BEG GAY: ‘I’VE NEVER FELT THAT SORT OF HATRED AND VRL’
- “GRANTCHTER” GO GAY
GRANTCHTER’S AL WEAVER REVEALS EMOTNAL TOLL OF FILMG LEONARD’S ARRT FOR BEG GAY: ‘I’VE NEVER FELT THAT SORT OF HATRED AND VRL’
Leonard Fch is a gay character om Grantchter. Leonard is a young Anglin prit, who is assigned as a curate to Sidney Chambers' parish Grantchter. While Sidney often gets volved the police bs and helps his iend spector Geordie Keatg wh his vtigatns, Leonard... * is leonard from grantchester gay in real life *
Al Weaver has opened up about the harst moments of filmg for Grantchter, as his character Leonard Fch was sentenced to prison for beg gay. Leonard had been sentenced to six months prison for gross cency, somethg which was a mon occurrence for gay men the 1950s, when the seri is set. Police at the time were searchg through the addrs books of gay men to fd who they were associatg wh, to which Al adds: ‘It was really shockg, was really horrendo so poor Leonard, ’s not very good for him.
Leonard was sentenced to six months prison on the show (Picture: BBC)Al revealed that the harst scene for him to film was Leonard’s journey to urt, where he faced an angry mob, which the actor found harrowg knowg that was the lived experience of so many gay men the past.
One of the most emotnal thgs filmg that was before we got to the prison, I was arrivg to the urtroom wh my lawyer and there’s a bunch of plards outsi sayg “homosexuals are the vil” and thgs like that. Leonard Fch is a gay character om Grantchter. Years later he reach out to his father and meets wh him, which leads to a disvery that Rsell is gay and had an affair wh the owner of the pub, Gion.
“GRANTCHTER” GO GAY
Stgglg wh his homosexualy, he gets engaged to a lol woman at one pot, but she soon breaks off when be apparent Leonard don't really love her. While on holidays wh the virage group and spector Keatg's fay, Leonard is approached by a young gay man, Bryan Stanford, who tri to kiss him. Leonard rejects his affectns, which leads to Bryan takg photographs of Leonard wh his lover Daniel Marlowe, which he later for blackmail, as homosexualy is illegal at the time.
Leonard is a closeted gay man, for whom alg wh his sexual orientatn is an ongog stggle.