Everyone say thank you Russell T Davies for introducing the wider television watching British public to rimming in 1999 and then heavily implying bisexuality is a natural evolution of current human sexuality in 2005 and then making a show where the entire main cast kisses someone of the same gender in 2006. Doing it like no other
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hii i know Ive commented this on one of your posts but I just now discovered this function so may I ask where do you get the qaf uk scripts? 🥺 thanks
They published the first season's scripts! You can probably find a copy on thriftbooks or even maybe for free online on archive.org. (Look for Queer As Folk: The Scripts) I would give almost anything for the season 2 scripts, too.
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“An oral history of Queer as Folk, the groundbreaking gay series that changed British TV for good.”
By Jack King, 17 April 2024.
New article from the British GQ, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Queer as Folk. Aidan and the rest of the cast, as well as creator Russell T Davies, discuss making the show, and its legacy.
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Some highlights from Aidan:
On being cast as Stuart: “I’d been working as an actor probably for about twelve years... I started trying to do it for a living straight out of school.
I did the play Mojo at the Royal Court… [later] I did the film of Mojo, and I played a different role in the film than in the play. I think Charles McDougall, who directed Queer as Folk, and Nicola Shindler had gone to a screening of Mojo. There’s a scene where I was walking down the street with a shirt open, in Soho in 1958, which sold them the idea… I [also] think Christopher Eccleston put me in the director’s mind for Queer as Folk.”
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On playing a gay character as a straight man: “There’s a lot of assumption that someone is heterosexual, or that they’re not, you know what I mean. But it certainly wasn’t an issue for me. I don’t think sexual preference defines a person to me. I’m not afraid of it, or people, or what they’re into; I’m not afraid of anything, really. I grew up in the theatre. I was going to youth theatre when I was 13. I knew many gay men and women. This was part of my everyday working life.”
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On working with Charlie Hunnam, who played Nathan: “I thought it was incredibly brave to take that on. I wasn’t really sure what his background was, or what kind of family he came from, or what kind of flack he might get. But to do what he did… Well, I don’t know, is there any difference from doing it when you’re 28? I suppose [there] is, in that you have a little bit more experience, and you know who you are.”
“[Charlie] was learning on the job. But I’d never be going out of my way to try and mentor somebody, you know, or tell them how to do things, or not.”
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On the rimming scene in the first episode: “I mean, it was just a scene, you know. [Laughs.] We were careful about it. Nowadays they’d have intimacy coordinators, and all this kind of stuff… The important thing is to make a plan, to talk it through with everyone, to make sure what everyone’s comfortable with.”
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On controversially depicting a relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man: “I don’t remember much about the [reaction to it] at all. It wasn’t even something that I thought about too much. If it was now, they would have a fucking conniption — it wouldn’t even get made. I remember some people going on about it, but not too much. It was more just general outrage.”
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On how Queer as Folk helped his career: “I've had a good, fulfilling, artistically satisfying career, and all the rest of it. But it's built on [Queer as Folk], I think.”
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Watched one (1) episode of qaf and I already have opinions:
1. The name sucks ass.
2. Not a good show.
3. The curls guy is the worst if you gotta have a huge age difference rs then it should have been Vince guy. Curly guy ugly af.
4. Why are there no same age relationships ffs.
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