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...
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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’
* 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.
“GRANTCHTER” GO GAY
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.