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Taylor Kitsch on playing gay in “The Normal Heart”
The long-awaited screen version of The Normal Heart will air on HBO next year with an all-star cast that includes Mark Rufallo, Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts and many more including Taylor Kitsch who tells Vulture about what a learning experience it all was for him.
“I mean, look: I was born in ’81. I had no idea about the whole AIDS epidemic,” the actor says. “I’m straight, and playing a gay guy who’s leading a double life, who’s still in the closet, who’s losing his lovers, who has AIDS but won’t admit it to himself, who ends up dying … I mean, where do you want to start? F*ck me, dude. It’s insane. The body type, the fact that he works at Citibank, very high up on Wall Street, so learning that part of it and reading an insane amount of books about guys who were leading those kinds of lives, learning about AZT and where it started … I knew probably the surface stuff, but what I learned for this, the education I got, that was another great tool.”
He adds: “Being out of your comfort zone is why you become an actor. You try to stretch yourself as much as you can.”
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Jim Steele says:
Good grief! Spare me the tired old excuse about comfort zones! Why not just hire OUT gay men who get it to begin with?
Joe says:
Taylor is a good actor. It’ll be interesting to see this movie, although will have to wait until it comes out on DVD since I don’t get HBO. HBO has been making some seriously terrific movies lately.
2201 East says:
have to agree with you, Steele.