After ‘Brothers & Sisters’ ended, Luke Macfarlane eyed a new, action-packed chapter. But that dream, he tells V.F., was short-lived. “I can literally remember an agent once saying to me, ‘Superman can’t be gay.’”
and his Hallmark films were “not happy” that he made the movie, occupying an uncomfortable middle ground between his past and future career points. “I had to say yes because there is a part of me that goes, ‘I’ve done a lot of these Hallmark movies where I play a straight man. I’d like to tip the hat to something,’” Macfarlane explains. It’s another example of principled, considered choice in an industry that leaves little room for that, particularly for LGBTQ+ artists.
So back to the question: Will Macfarlane keep doing Hallmark when his contract ends? “I don’t think they’ll ever have me back after today,” he says after a chuckle.. Macfarlane knows the tropes, the big notes to hit, to sell the hell out of falling in love and the terror at the thought of losing it. Now he gets to put the craft to work.
The three would have coffee periodically and talk about life: dating, sex, all of that messiness. Filming was supposed to start in March 2020, and then, of course, it didn’t. “I remember my manager saying, ‘You might have to let this one go,’” Macfarlane recalls. He was used to that kind of stuff; what’s another disappointment? But the movie did not go away.
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