Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorZachary Quinto has never seen William Friedkin’s 1970 big-screen adaptation of “The Boys in the Band,” based on Mart Crowley’s play about a group of gay men who gather in a New York apartment for their friend Harold’s birthday.You’d think he would have by now.
Not only did he play Harold in the 2018 Broadway production of “Boys,” but he takes on the role once again in the new Joe Mantello-directed Netflix film adaptation.“When I got invited to do the play, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to watch it before we go into rehearsals.’ And then I thought, ‘I’ll watch it when the play is over,’” Quinto says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “But then I.