The writer was able to visit the Los Angeles set and spend time with the cast, even making a brief cameo in the movie.
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The Netflix film’s release also comes after the passing of a generation of gay storytellers - Kramer, who died at 84 in May Crowley, who died at 84 in March, and Terrence McNally, the playwright behind Love! Valour! Compassion! and many other Broadway hits who died at 81 a few weeks later.įor Crowley, things came full circle before his death.
“Only by knowing that rich history are we able to continue making the kinds of changes and choices that lead to a more equal and loving society.” “We don’t continue making progress by forgetting our history and where we came from,” Parsons explains. The Boys in the Band, he says now, is very reminiscent of the way he felt when they did that project: there should be no taking any of this for granted. “It was really an opportunity to generate a conversation about the accomplishments that we’ve made in the 50 years since the play first premiered and also the accomplishments that we’ve yet to make.” “To me, that’s what Boys in the Band really represents,” Quinto says. “Having that sense of history, even if these are fictitious characters, those circumstances are very real.” “We said it from the outset, with both the Broadway production and the film, highlighting how much has changed and how much hasn’t,” Carver, who plays a trick named Cowboy hired as a birthday gift, says. The importance of looking back but not going backwards is a sentiment shared by the cast and one they hope will connect with audiences. The Latinx actor, who plays Emory, is one of two characters of color in the story alongside Washington as Bernard. “It’s good to look back and go, ‘Things have changed, but they also haven’t changed and we need to be on our toes and make sure we are not going backwards.’” These are all themes that are still happening today, these are themes that have just gotten more savvy,” de Jesús says. “Having discussions about the nuances of colorism, talking about alcoholism, talking about shame, oppression. It’s sexy, funny and sometimes nasty - what starts with dancing ends with a brutal parlor game and teary confessions - but it’s also grounded in reality, making it feel just as urgent and relevant over 50 years later.
Parsons plays the increasingly bitter host, Michael, while Quinto appears as Harry, the snarky birthday honoree. Unfolding over the course of one evening, The Boys in the Band tells a pre-Stonewall story about a group of men gathering at a mutual friend’s apartment for a birthday celebration - a communal, safe space to be openly gay - during which the faults in their personalities are exposed and relationships are tested. That experience of reconvening and telling the story with a year’s worth of experience and perspective under our belts, away from those characters and that world and that story just deepened our connections to the characters and the material.” “But then to have a year and then everybody comes back. “We had a really wonderful time doing the play,” Quinto continues.
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