25 fascinating facts about the landmark AIDS drama ‘The Normal Heart’
The Normal Heart—written by activist Larry Kramer based off his play of the same name and directed by mega-producer Ryan Murphy—is a blistering attack on the lack of action by the government in the early days of the AIDS crisis.
In it, Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo) fights to stop the rapidly escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic from killing every gay man in its wake in the early 1980s.Click through for 25 facts you may not know about the award-winning HBO film. Don’t f— with Larry Kramer, you guys.
The late, great, outspoken playwright wrote The Normal Heart as an angry rallying cry as he saw the world around him, and most of the characters in the story are based on real people he knew.
Main character Ned Weeks is a fictionalized version of Kramer himself, and Dr. Emma Brookner is based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein.
