Zachary Quinto Talks ‘Emotional and Physical Tension’ With Jacob Elordi in ‘He Went That Way’ and Producing New LGBTQ Docuseries ‘Historical Homos’
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor “Euphoria” actor Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto star in “He Went That Way,” a film based on the wacky true story of a celebrity animal trainer (Quinto) and his TV chimp Spanky, who spent three days with a serial killer (Elordi) in 1964.
While some press reports have described the film as a queer project, Quinto tells me we won’t be seeing him and Elordi steam up the screen: “I wouldn’t say it’s an overtly queer story, but I will say that there are undertones of both emotional and physical tension between these two characters.” The actors became close during filming. “We talked a lot about his desire to do theater,” Quinto recalls. “I was like, ‘Go do a play in London.
Go do a play in New York. That’s where you really cut your teeth.’ I’m sure we’ll see him onstage at some point.” Before the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the movie in June, Quinto is making the rounds promoting “Historical Homos,” an upcoming docuseries about LGBTQ history that he produced.
Historian Bash and film producer and actor Donal Brophy host the program. “I do think it’s an incredibly important moment to proudly tell stories about our heritage and our past,” says Quinto, who came out as gay in an interview with New York magazine in 2011. “We are in this moment of real backlash against the progress that we’ve made as a community.
