Actor TheRealLukevans opened up to WWD about his career, his lifelong love affair with music and how to stay positive in lockdown.
Luke Evans is in good spirits this particular Friday evening, though mere minutes into a Zoom call with the Welsh actor and it’s hard to imagine him ever being in anything but.
“There was maybe like a week or so at the beginning where it was the realization of ‘This is our life for the foreseeable weeks, months, years, we don’t know. How long is this going to be our life?’ And once that realization sort of dissipated and we accepted that this is where we were going to be in if we chose to, we could stay here for three months, I just thought, ‘Well, you have to look at the positive,’” Evans says.
“Over the years, my fan base has built up. My international profile has risen. I have fans in South Korea, I have fans in India, America, Latin America, all over the world now. And because there’s been a couple of times I’ve sung on my social media, or when I did ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ of course, people got to hear my voice,” Evans says. “And that started the seeds germinating: when on such a huge international platform, so many people heard it.
When Evans last appeared in WWD, in 2014, it was one of the first times he had publicly discussed his sexuality, after years of it being sidestepped in most of his press. He now lives more out and proud than ever, and for this story collaborated with his boyfriend, creative director and set designer Rafa Olarra, on the photos, Olarra’s first time working as a photographer and their first time partnering creatively.
“The fact that it’s a musical is probably the coolest part of the whole thing,” Evans says. “And that Alan Menken, who wrote ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Aladdin,’ ‘Little Mermaid,’ ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ the list goes on, he’s writing the music. We just feel so honored that he’s even said yes to doing this. I will tell you that Josh and I have read the first two episodes and we’re blown away. As is Disney.
Right before lockdown, he was shooting a series called “The Pembrokeshire Murders,” in which he stars as a detective superintendent in the true story about one of Wales’ worst serial killer crimes. So yes, “quite dark,” Evans says.
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