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 (Insert collective sigh from all gay men and women who are reading this.) The gay / straight issue is of course at the heart of this piece as Scott’s character, and the audience for that matter, struggle with the fact that he married a woman but has slept with a man. At one point Tom admits, “I chose one set of feelings over another.” When asked what his take was on the issue Scott very honestly answers, “I think we do as a society fall into putting everybody in a box so that we feel comfortable around them. That’s what I liked about this character because I think he kind of blows all of that away. This guy has gotten to a place where he is going to die and he wants the ‘true’ truth. No more bull shit.” All boxes and classifications aside, even Scott felt that his character was in some form of denial about his sexuality, “Consciously in his mind I don’t think he thinks he’s necessarily gay. I don’t think that’s true, there’s obviously something going on but I don’t think he’s in contact with it.” The debate over sexuality is just one of the many questions posed but not answered by this film. “Everybody who watches the movie comes to their own conclusions and that’s what I like about it,” he says. “It can be good and it can be bad, but I like that people are left to make up their own minds. It’s not all wrapped up and made nice for you.” Some movie goers may not appreciate the open ended nature of the film but as Scott says, “This is not a movie that you can go into and just escape for awhile and relax and have the movie kind of wash over you. It asks you to be involved in a sense; which we’re not used to anymore unfortunately. It’s a bit of a jolt for a lot of people who want to just let the lights go down and disappear for awhile. There’s plenty of movies where you can do that, but this isn’t one of them.” Working on a film like this opens the door to so many personal questions and introspective thought that it might have been off putting to certain actors. Speedman, on the other hand was more drawn to the project because of it. “I think that’s really a cool thing when you kind of sit back and think, ‘What lines have a crossed, even casually within groups ... |
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