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New Film ‘Swan Song’ Celebrates an Aging Gay Man's Last Hurrah

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Swan Song (and writer of the beloved ’90s flick Edge of Seventeen) hadn’t initially envisioned casting Udo Kier — the internationally acclaimed character actor known for working with Lars von Trier and Andy Warhol, in his film.“Casting Udo was unexpected.

I had known Udo from My Own Private Idaho, and I kept thinking, Pat is from West Virginia, and we have an actor with a German accent.

When we were looking to cast Pat, we were looking for someone who wouldn’t play a clichéd gay man, someone who wouldn’t play him campy and over-the-top,” Stephens says. “Instead, Udo added even more mystique and elegance to the elusive Pat.

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