Robbie Rogers on the joys of fatherhood, marriage & working on the steamy queer drama, ‘Fellow Travelers’
Robbie Rogers never encountered that problem. The soccer great was approached with his first Hollywood project while he was still an active player, and quickly fell in love with the industry.
His marriage with powerhouse producer/director/writer Greg Berlanti has only further enflamed his desire to work in show business.A post shared by Robbie Rogers (@robbierogers)A post shared by Robbie Rogers (@robbierogers)A post shared by Robbie Rogers (@robbierogers)While Rogers, 36, has dabbled in projects before, his most high-profile piece of work is about to hit the screen.
The trailblazing soccer player co-wrote an episode of the scintillating Showtime drama Fellow Travelers, an epic love story that follows the forbidden romance between a charismatic wartime hero and government official (Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller, played by The Normal Heart‘s Matt Bomer) and idealistic recent college grad (Tim Laughlin, played by Bridgerton‘s Jonathan Bailey).
The series, which is based off Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel of the same name, tracks the changing cultural attitudes around queerness from the Joe McCarthy era to the early 1980s.
