Total Film magazine to promote the new Amazon Prime movie, Uncle Frank, which premiered on the streaming service last week.Related: WATCH: Paul Bettany plays gay in bittersweet trailer for Uncle FrankIn the movie, written and directed by Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood), Bettany plays the part of a gay, literary professor in New York City in 1973.
Originally from the south, his character, Frank Bledsoe, returns for the funeral of a family member. For Frank, returning to South Carolina stirs up painful memories of his homophobic upbringing, and questions over what to reveal about his life in New York.Bettany’s father, Thane, an actor and dancer, was married to fellow actress, Anne, from 1968 to 1985.