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圖片中的文字：Justin and randy : face to face
No matter how shitty things get, I always have my art. It’s the one place I can go where I’ll be safe… Where no one can get to me.
I read about the British version in some industry magazine or newspaper a few months before heard about the American version. Then I knew about the American version when my agent pitched the role to me. I hadn’t actually seen the British show when I went in to read, so all had was the pilot script to review. When I read it, I liked how naïve Justin was but ballsy at the same time. That drew me to the role.
I’m the most mature person you know.
I think Justin went through a traditional growth to the kind of maturity that one goes through at that age. I mean it’s also a TV show, so he’s gone through some horribly traumatic events that I think have aged him as well. But a lot of the maturity that was in the character had to be there for some reason.
I didn’t want to keep Brain and Justin together. To make Justin interesting to Brian he needed to have some kind of exceptional qualities and he needed to evolve. I didn’t want it to be horribly degrading. I mean, obviously the whole thing with Justin chasing Brian is something that character has to do, but we had to give some obstacles to elevate him out of the desrtructiveness of that situation.
By the third season I think Justin’s and older and more mature. I still don’t think he has notions of what Brian is capable of doing to him, but he doesn’t think their relationship is something it’s not. I definitely think that with the quickness with which he went from Ethan back to Brian it sort of demonstrates that a lot of it was sort of rebounding. He’s coming from a place of being severely hurt.
don’t want her to understand me, I want her to leave me alone!
Justin’s relationship with his mom is interesting. I think it’s a testament to Sherry because she is just such a great actress. She’s added a level of humanity to the part and to the relationship. A lot of the audience tends to be people who are still dealing with how their sexuality affects their relationship with their parents. Therefore I think that relationship is easy to identify with the type of audience we have.
Sex is part of it. But it’s about other things, too. Like how we see each other and ourselves.
There are a lot of people who are empowered by Justin and by the show, but operating under the preconception that a world exactly like this could exist is sort of wrong. It might make people feel like things are more possible than they are in the real world. But the response I get tells me that Justin has inspired them to be a stronger person and to come out means a lot to me. It’s funny, though. People often tend to write to me either thinking that I’m Justin, like they don’t know I’m the actor, or else they think I’m a prostitute and they want to tell me sexual things that they want.
It was the best night of my life.
I liked the first season finale. I liked the dancing. I thought it was fun and something really different in the way it was unrealistic. It was this heightened moment that I think worked really well. In a lot of ways more was said in the dance Brian and Justin’s relationship then in any of our sex scenes or anything else. I think that’s one of my favorite moments.
The queer’s going. The queer is out the door. The queer’s gone!
Initially there was a lot more fear after Chris Hobbs’s attack. Justin was fearless so much in the first season. I think he’s back to that now, but right at the beginning of the second season after the attack, the adolescent invincibility that we all once had was really, really shattered. There was a lot more fear. There was a lot more anger. I definitely think Justin is now more like Brian, but I think it comes from a place of a lot of fear and a lot of anger because of that attack.
A man needs to know when to ask for help.
I like the fact that Justin treats women with respect and has significant relationships with them. Almost all the other characters make these rude vagina jokes from time to time. I think that Justin’s respect for women is what allows the relationship with Daphne and Debbie and his own mother and Melanie and Lindsay to have the most legitimacy. He doesn’t feel oppressed by women or that he was forced to be a heterosexual by the other gender. Therefore he is able to have meaningful, mutually respectful relationships with the female characters on the show.
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圖片中的文字：Brian and gale : face to face
You want a hero, buy a comic book.
To have an “antihero,” you need a character operating in a classic antagonist/protagonist structure. A character who accepts, or at least acknowledges, some social version of right and wrong. I’ve learned that Brian is not an antihero for the simple reason that he does not respond to, for lack of a better term, the social compact. His particular disconnect from the American Dream is fairly complete. And his life has become an excessively self-indulgent refusal of everything. Except that which gives his life meaning.
I think that is a fairly common developmental stage for any man growing up in our society in the last sixty-odd years. This is what makes him somewhat universal. Now, some men struggle “heroically” to understand and engage in the antihuman farce that is capitalist America…
And some men refuse to fight for anything other than what makes them feel the most alive, even if it’s killing them.
I think Brian might fit the latter description.
I just hate to see someone holding on to their ‘integrity’ for no good reason.
Ah, the good old code.
It’s tricky because Brian is essentially amoral. His disavowal of ethical structure, while functional as a sort of sexy, fuck ‘em rationalization, does not elevate the telling of factual truth to a philosophy, or even a genuine belief system. It certainly is a system, but more one of self-preservation. Honest.
You’re the only one you need. You’re the only one you’ve got.
It is painfully clear that Brian cares first and foremost about Brian. He does what he does for one simple reason : to get what he wants, and to maintain what he perceives to be a state of control. At times, the best choices for Brian have benevolent side effects.
My desire, above all else, is for brain to be as realistic and human as possible. So, I within the constraints I am given, to find a way. How, for instance, do I show the effect of the genuine, heartfelt response of Ted (episode 307) to Brian’s intervening on Ted’s behalf legally? After the old “It’s just bizness, pal” scene, does Brian feel some inkling of self-worth? Or is he too wrapped up in his, uh, code?
I try to let something get through. And I hope that if enough gets through, there will be significant growth for Brian at least to become more self-aware. And hopefully some self-awareness will lead to deeper accessibility to his feelings toward his friends and lovers.
Not every boy is lucky enough to have a mother who’s equally at home in the kitchen as she is in a gay bar.
If you consider the idealized concept of “family” as people who accept and understand you for who you really are, then it would make sense for Brian to have found some version of that “ideal” in his relationship with Michael and Debbie.
That said, I think the structure is tenuous at best. And most dramatically resonant when Brian’s unbearable self-absorption is rendered down by Debbie’s and Michael’s stubborn will to keep loving the brother/son they should have sent to hell long ago…
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