‘Looking‘ was part of that learning experience because of the way that it was received. When we were shooting the first season, it felt like a journal.
All of us were just doing journal entries in front of the camera. It was incredibly therapeutic and really life-changing. We all felt so supported by our directors and our writers.
HBO is run by a lot of gays. And Casey Bloys, who now runs HBO, was our comedy exec on ‘Looking.’ He had me sign the Out cover and he put it in his office during the first season of the show.
It was pretty much a fairytale that first year we were working, without any eyes or expectation on us. How the community was going to react honestly did not even occur to me at all.