Little Gold Men<\/em> (listen below).<\/p>\nOn top of all that, Bailey managed to return to the Ton for season three part two of Bridgerton<\/em>, which begins streaming Thursday, June 13 and filmed concurrently with Fellow Travelers<\/em>\u2014which bled directly into Wicked.<\/em> He remembers practicing Ozdust Ballroom choreography during lunch breaks on Travelers,<\/em> wearing his buttoned-up G-man glasses and sharp haircut from the waist up\u2014\u201cand then it was Fame<\/em> from the waist down. I\u2019ve got terrible videos that may or may not surface in about a hundred years time\u2014hopefully once I\u2019ve died, because they\u2019re so embarrassing.\u201d But then again, there\u2019s a poignancy to them: \u201cTim, if he\u2019d been born 60 years later, may have played Fiyero in the school production of Wicked.<\/em> And he would have loved the shiny boots.\u201d<\/p>\nVanity Fair<\/em>: As Tim on Fellow Travelers,<\/em> you evolve from a conservative, religious congressional staffer in the \u201950s to a radical queer man living in the \u201980s. What was it like filming that character arc? I have to imagine it would be tough to do.<\/strong><\/p>\nJonathan Bailey<\/em>: It was an incredible challenge. For Tim, he\u2019s talking about the idea of religion and faith and what that gives you at the beginning. And I think it seems to have equipped Tim to endure a love against all odds. He never gives up on Hawk (Matt Bomer<\/strong>). And Hawk becomes his sort of living religion, and something that he believes in.<\/p>\nI was like, I want to see a gay ingenue who\u2019s a fish out of water\u2014who\u2019s itchy in his skin. It\u2019s not like he\u2019s doe-eyed and just sort of hapless; he\u2019s fighting from the get-go. He does not understand why the world is the way it is. His emotions are the thing he leads with. And he\u2019s all about truth and transparency and honesty. And I think that comes from this Catholic sort of conservative upbringing. So it\u2019s just the most beautiful quest that he has in his life, to find absolution but also acceptance. But he never stops fighting. That\u2019s why, to me, he\u2019s an absolute icon.<\/p>\n
Tim is prickly and struggling internally with his sexuality while also dealing externally with important moments in American history, from McCarthyism to the AIDS crisis. As a Brit, how familiar were you with the American history?<\/strong><\/p>\nNot enough [laughs<\/em>]. It was not included on the curriculum. But then I\u2019m not sure it really was in America, either. This is why we\u2019re shining a light on areas of history that conveniently haven\u2019t been included. It\u2019s an experience to explore a character throughout that time, but also the history of queer experience\u2014to offer me, as Johnny, catharsis. And to be in a predominantly queer environment to tell that story. I relished it, because there\u2019s so much that I need to understand about the privilege that I have now and the people that came before me. The fact that there\u2019s five out gay actors leading the show is because of all the people that came before. And I\u2019m telling you, people have been loving gay actors for years. They just haven\u2019t been able to say that they\u2019re gay.<\/p>\nWe\u2019re getting more and more queer stories and queer representation on screen, but these characters are not always portrayed by actual queer people. I think Fellow Travelers<\/em> proves that it makes a big difference when you cast queer, out, gay, LGBTQ+ actors in roles that are queer.<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is so specifically exploring the queer experience over 40 years. I think there was a GLAAD report last week that was kind of disheartening, about how there\u2019s been a decrease in queer or LGBTQ+ characters being represented\u2026. Tim and Hawk and all the characters in this are born into a world where they have to fight. And if you\u2019re ever having to monitor or adapt or to survive, if your first instinct is it might not work because of who I am, then that\u2019s the difference between being a gay actor and not being a gay actor. It\u2019s the fight.<\/p>\n
The show wouldn\u2019t work without your chemistry with Matt Bomer. How did you find that dynamic? Tim and Hawk\u2019s relationship has a sub-dom dynamic, and at times it switches. There\u2019s a power struggle. It\u2019s complicated and nuanced and always believable.<\/strong><\/p>\n[laughs]<\/em> Well, I mean, Matt Bomer is a supreme being, and incredibly lovely and great. He\u2019s got such a wealth of experience. We met on Zoom to do a chemistry read, and then we met in a coffee shop about a week, or even actually less than that\u2014like, six days before we started filming. For about an hour we said, you know, this is such an opportunity. This is what we\u2019re really excited about. It\u2019s a great amount of trust and a free fall. But that\u2019s the point of gay relationships: There is so much nuance, and the dynamic is so balanced because there\u2019s no gender, There\u2019s no\u2014uh, what was it? Women are from Venus, men are from Mars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you looked up the phrase \u201cbooked and busy,\u201d you\u2019d probably find a picture of Jonathan Bailey. The British actor broke out as Lord Anthony Bridgerton, whose love story took center stage in the second season of Netflix\u2019s eponymous hit romance. He captured even more hearts as Tim Laughlin, a McCarthy-era conservative turned radical queer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,2252,2269,6448],"class_list":{"0":"post-104097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-bridgerton","10":"tag-little-gold-men","11":"tag-wicked-movie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}