The History of Sound’s Josh O’Connor in conversations for another gay drama
Josh O’Connor is in conversations to appear in a new gay romance film, Separate Rooms, by Luca Guadagnino. The romance is an adaptation of the titular novel by late Italian author Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who died of AIDS at the age of 36.
The story “follows an Italian writer named Leo who is mourning the loss of his boyfriend.” Variety has revealed that O’Connor is in discussions to play Leo after Guadagnino announced over the weekend to Italy’s La Repubblica that the filming is set to begin “soon”.
The book is divided into three parts written as “movements” and opens with Leo travelling to Munich to say goodbye to his former lover, a German pianist called Thomas.
The book plots his mourning as he travels to the UK and US. Spliced with flashbacks and reflections, the pair’s first meeting in Paris is captured along with Thomas’s affair with a girl prior to his death.
