Harry Hamlin on how his gay role in 1982 still impacts audiences despite being “sanitized” by the studio
I read the script and I said ‘well this is about something actually going on in the world that nobody wants to talk about.’ It’s a real subject that’s real in society.
It’s something that needs to be discussed and you start a conversation about this.To this day, not a week goes by when someone doesn’t come up to me and says ‘God, thank you for making that film.
It changed my life’ or ‘It helped me talk to my parents about my sexuality’ or whatever. Wherever I go to this day and I’m extraordinarily proud of that.It didn’t have the greatest effect on my career, feature film career, but it did have, on the other side of that equation, a great, great positive effect on a huge community.“Even though I was straight, I think the perception at the time was that anybody who could play gay must be gay.”Don't forget to share:.
