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Deep Inside Hollywood: Colin Farrell travels The North Water 9
Ian McKellen: A Biography by Garry O’Connor
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by Romeo San Vicente
Deep Inside Hollywood Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) is busy working on a new limited series, The North Water. Haigh adapted the novel by Ian McGuire and is directing the BBC four-parter due in 2020. Colin Farrell stars as a harpooner on an Arctic whaling expedition (he also happens to be a murderous psychopath, but nobody’s perfect ). On board he meets a ship’s doctor (Jack O’Connell, Unbroken) who’s not quite ready for the encounter or for the brutal journey of survival the two will come to share. Supporting cast includes acclaimed actor-filmmaker Peter Mullan (Ozark) and legendary British character actor Tom Courtenay (45 Years, and, you know, little movies like Doctor Zhivago). It’s not necessarily a queer-specific story – even if the captain of this TV ship is – but it’s already reminding us a little bit of The Lighthouse, with its vibe of tortured, toxic, freaked-out masculinity and sublimated homoerotic rage. So this’ll be fun!
importantly, like the rest of queer America, we also now know him as one of the writers of the instantly legendary “Sara Lee Instagram” sketch. At this point we’re pretty much just stalking his career wherever it happens to meander, like into the indie drama Cicada, currently in production. The first narrative feature from filmmaker Matthew Fifer, it’s the story of a young queer man who enters an interracial relationship and who then must, over the course of a summer, come to terms with traumatic childhood experiences. Fifer will play the one of the leads, as will fellow newcomer Sheldon Brown, but the supporting cast includes Yang and some very established names like Cobie Smulders (Avengers), Scott Adsit (30 Rock) and David Burtka (A Very Merry Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, where he played a bizarre version of himself alongside husband Neil Patrick Harris). We’re expecting this one to hit indie film festivals first, so keep tabs on it.
Follies on film, finally
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Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning 1971 musical Follies is getting the movie treatment, deservedly so, after nearly 50 years. Filmmaker Dominic Cooke (On Chesil Beach) will adapt the show, after directing the 2017 stage revival at London’s National Theatre (a production so popular it was brought back for encore performances in 2019). Featuring the musical theater standards “Broadway Baby,” “I’m Still Here” and “Losing My Mind,” (famously covered by Liza Minnelli and The Pet Shop Boys in the late ’80s) the story is set in a Broadway theater scheduled for demolition, where a reunion of former performers is taking place. The middle-age-to-senior cast tell stories of success and disappointment and heartbreak, so when casting shapes up (somebody ask Liza!) it’s going to be a who’s who of baby boomer (and older) Broadway babies. No word yet on who they’ll be, or when it’s supposed to hit screens, so more on this one soon. Taika Waititi’s non-binary goals Filmmaker Taika Waititi’s career now spans wild comedy (What We Do In The Shadows), Marvel Cinematic Universe box-office juggernauts (Thor: Ragnarok), and daring Oscar-buzz satires (JoJo Rabbit). So naturally his next move is an inspirational sports film about a Samoan soccer team. It’s called Next Goal Wins, and it’s about a real-life team’s resurgence after suffering the longest losing streak in international football. What’s queer about that? The existence of Jaiyah Saelua, the first non-binary player to compete in a men’s FIFA World Cup qualifying match. And what’s queer about the casting is that it will be the debut film role for actor Kaimana, who is a fa’afafine Samoan actor (in Samoan culture, fa’afafine people comprise a non-binary gender identity). In other words, this will be the next step in non-binary representation in cinema, both in character placement and casting (after non-binary actor Asia Kate Dillon’s role in John Wick: Parabellum) and that’s a significant development. Cicada gives SNL’s Bowen Yang a movie role We listen to Yang’s podcast Las Culturistas and know him as one of the new cast additions to SNL. Of course, more
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BOOK REVIEW Any old stick would do. When you were a child, that’s what it took to become a wizard: a stick became a makeshift wand, an old towel turned into a cape, and you were ready for spell-making. It worked for imaginations everywhere although, as you’ll see in “Ian McKellen: A Biography” by Garry O’Connor, sometimes, reel magic helps, too. On May 25, 1939, mere months before the beginning of World War II, Ian Murray McKellen made his debut into the world. The only son of parents who lived large, passionate lives, young McKellen grew up securely happy despite the War.
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Alas, that ended when his beloved mother died of cancer when McKellen was just twelve years old. As years passed, he always regretted that she never knew about him what he knew about himself: he received his “first gay kiss” at age nine and understood even then that he preferred boys to girls. Though his original plan was to graduate school and work as a journalist, McKellen was denied the chance and instead opted to attend Cambridge. There, others noticed that he had a great aptitude for Shakespearean acting; it was nurtured and a “most extraordinary explosion of talent happened.” His time at Cambridge helped him sharpen his craft; it was also there that McKellen lost his virginity to another man. O’Connor says that McKellen is “a slow-progress stickler” and never minded using “modest roles” as stepping-stones; every role he played led to bigger parts on better-known stages in larger venues. In 1964, he landed a small part in a BBC-
TV production as his first foray into television, and he continued to eye a career in film – a career that “still eluded [him] until the late 1990s.” At that time, he was able to transition from stage to screen, fast racking up a Tony, a Golden Globe, a SAG award, and an Oscar nomination. And then a “quick perusal of the Marvel comics… caught his fancy.” For readers who are wild about Shakespeare, “Ian McKellen: A Biography” will be a delight. Those who are not to be, however, may find this book quite tedious. Author Garry O’Connor, who’s known McKellen for decades, explains in his first chapter how this book came about, in opening words that are carefully off-the-cuff. That chumminess feels as if you’re real-time eavesdropping on a semiscripted conversation between two friends. Get past the account of McKellen’s early life, though, and much of the rest of this book is uber-deep into theater, with the occasional reminder of McKellen’s gayness in the narrative. Serious followers of British stage performances will find the former to be irresistible and the latter to make one feel like a close backstage insider. Those who prefer McKellen’s later work might find this all mildly interesting, but far too extra until toward the end. And so there’s the break-down: Theater fan, yes. You’ll love “Ian McKellen: A Biography.” If you’re a fan of McKellen’s later movie career only, this book is okay if you can stick with it.
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