The night I took this photo of actors Steve Callahan and Matthew Montgomery, we did a little interview about their new movie Role/Play.

I have not had the chance to transcribe it and now here it is Sunday, the day the movie premieres at Outfest! The film screens tonight at Sunset 5 at 9:15 p.m. and I noticed yesterday that it has already sold so many tickets that your only hope of getting in  is the stand-by line.

If you don’t get in tonight (I’ll be there and have a review tomorrow!) the film’s second screening is NEXT Sunday July 18 at 5:15 p.m. in DGA 2. (Better hurry, Steve posted on Facebook this morning that those too are selling out fast)  Hopefully I’ll have the interview transcribed by then!

Role/Play comes from filmmaker Rob Williams whose movie Make the Yuletide Gay is a past Outfest hit. Callahan stars as a recently outed soap opera star while Montgomery portrays a recently divorced gay marriage activist. When their paths cross at a Palm Springs resort, they are forced to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community.

The film also features out actors Devid Pevsner and Jim J. Bullock in supporting roles and also screen at Philadelphia QFest this weekend.

Thankfully, Matthew and Steve have done several other interviews in promotion of Role/Play.

“I think it’s a very political film—and that’s what I love about the script,” Steve told Frontiers INLA. “I think Rob has a lot of things to say about what’s happening in the gay community. As an out actor, it’s ironic I’m playing closeted. I think there’s something important about actors coming out.”

Added Matthew: “Being an actor who works in the indie film world, there’s a lot of credibility to what Rob’s saying about the absence of support of gay indie artists—actors, writers, musicians—that helps us crossover into the mainstream world. But by putting straight allies rather than the faces of our community on magazine covers, we become a bit of a sellout to a degree. We need to support our artists who are marginalized because they are gay, and Rob makes it clear that’s an issue we’re still dealing with. Yes, it’s getting better, but we have a long way to go.”

It will be very exciting to see Steve and Matthew acting opposite each other in major roles because they have been a real-life couple for more than two years and both have stellar gay indie resumes.

Steve, who has such stage credits as Corpus Christi and WeHo, was riveting in Nine Lives and tender and sexy in East Side Story. Matthew has been the lead in such well-regarded films as Gone, But Not Forgotten; Back Soon, Long-Term Relationship; Socket; Pornography: A Thriller and Redwoods.

They are both such talented guys but best of all, they are good people.

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