Five years ago, Charlie Carver was at an Emmy party when a gay man he worked with chastised him three separate times for acting too effeminate: 'I was told that I needed to ‘get it under control’ around people in the business'
,” was at an Emmy party when a gay man he worked with chastised him three separate times for acting too effeminate.
Now the cast has reunited for the Ryan Murphy-produced film adaptation for Netflix. The play’s director, Joe Mantello, returned, and Crowley and Ned Martel co-wrote the script. “There’s a kind of laziness when someone describes the play with a broad brush in the sense that it’s entirely about self-loathing,” Mantello says. “I don’t feel that’s true at all. It’s a specific story about a specific time. I don’t think there’s anything useful about historical amnesia and pretending that [the problems] didn’t exist or it wasn’t difficult. I would say that what is uncomfortable about the play and problematic about certain characters is because of what they were up against.
“This film premiering on Netflix upends the presumption that LGBTQ narratives should be limited or niche — or worse, restricted,” Mantello says. “There is an undeniable appetite for these stories that surpasses the wildest imaginings of the brave men who starred in the original film.”
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