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- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
- RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
- YOU’LL WISH YOU WERE GAY: CHANNEL 4’S IT’S A S REVIEWED
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
Rsell T Davi ss down wh Nick Leve to discs his new seri rooted the 80s Aids crisis, LGBTQ reprentatn on screen and straight actors playg gay characters * it's a sin gay actors *
What, a le up of gay characters played by a st of actual gay people? He plays Rchie, a young gay man om the Isle of Wight who’s not out to his parents.
He also prented BBC Three documentary Growg Up Gay, which is available on BBC iPlayer and well worth a watch. He is a young gay man, who’s fay effectively disown him after he out to them.
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RSELL T DAVI SPEAKS OUT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF STG GAY ACTORS AS GAY CHARACTERS IT'S A S
* it's a sin gay actors *
As gay mat Rchie (Olly Alexanr), Rose (Omari Douglas), Ash (Nathaniel Curtis) and Col (Callum Stt Howells), pl female iend Jill (Lydia Wt), lose iends and lovers to the disease, Davi pats a poignant portra of how to fe their liv.
NL: In episo four we see Nathaniel Curtis’s character Ash eviscerate Sectn 28, the Thatcher ernment’s barbaric legislatn prohibg the “promotn” of homosexualy schools. RTD: I thk would have been odd to have wrten a gay drama set the 80s wh no mentn of .
If you were a teacher and a child was beg bullied for beg gay ont of you, there was nothg you uld say. I thk ls than half of our current bet voted for gay marriage – certaly our Home Secretary, Pri Patel, who’s charge of the laws of the land, voted agast gay marriage. They’re a gay male band wh their one female iend, which is very, very 80s.
YOU’LL WISH YOU WERE GAY: CHANNEL 4’S IT’S A S REVIEWED
They existed then and they exist now; there’s a lot of Tory gays. And a way, that’s a reactn to [Alan Hollghurst’s semal novel] The Le of Bety, where the lead character – a gay man the 80s – danc wh Mrs Thatcher. “My take is to st gay as gay.
Nohels, I do mata that if you take soaps and LGBTQ wrers out of the equatn, you n watch an awful lot of ne o’clock drama and streamg drama whout gay characters . I loved Bridgerton, but I was astonished that had about ten sends of gayns .
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
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I believe we have 40 or 50 gay speakg parts It’s A S and they’re all played by gay actors.
And actually, that’s very hard to do bee you’re not allowed an dn to ask someone whether they’re gay or not. And that’s a great le: jt as the head of T n’t ask someone who wants to work on the shop floor whether they’re gay or not. Nohels, you n make clear that you’re very open to openly gay actors g to dn.