Josh Goes Gay Again & Again

As seen there Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal are currently shooting The History of Sound, the upcoming WWI-era gay romance from Moffie and Living (and the imminent Mary & George series) director Oliver Hermanus -- see my first post about that here. Both allegedly heterosexual actors have shown quite the fondness for feigning homosexuality for receptive gay directors and appreciative audiences and it looks like Josh is up to it again -- word on the street (i.e. Variety) is that he's probably going to star in another movie with his Challengers director Luca Guadagnino, this time an adaptation of writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli's gay romance Separate Rooms. (I should add "out of print" -- I went to buy a copy and they're selling for $250, good grief.) Here is how it's descibred: 

"The success of Tondelli's (1955-1991) melancholy Italian novel relies almost solely on the narrator's voice, which is steady, honest and believable. It is the voice of Leo, an Italian writer whose German lover, Thomas, has recently died. On a plane from Paris to Munich Leo reminisces about their relationship, which influenced his life in myriad ways. Their attraction to each other was so intense and troubling that at one point Leo suggested that the only way they might survive each other would be to live apart and travel together each summer--hence the "separate rooms" of the title. Leo's story is a road novel of memory. He recounts experiences in various cities, and all add up to his failure to accept Thomas's death and the possibility of new love. The translation is slightly clunky at times but generally unobtrusive, and Leo's emotions and thoughts on topics ranging from his childlessness to the decay of old Europe are unique and expressed in tangible terms--when he returns to his childhood home in the Po Valley and feels displaced there, he can barely swallow the food his mother prepares for him, "the food from his own land." This was Tondelli's last novel, and his first to appear in English."

Anybody read it? Anyway I am sure Josh will get barraged with more questions about taking roles from gay actors and let them be asked, whatever. I can't get too worked up about it since Luca wants to keep working with Josh. I also would want to keep making Josh do gay stuff. And I want to keep watching Josh do gay stuff. It's really working out for all of us. Except for gay actors. In related news the only actor with ears to rival Josh O'Connor's, totally gay Russell Tovey -- who is currently shooting his own gay movie in upstate New York -- used his weekend off to hang out with Josh's current co-star Paul Mescal and director Oliver Hermanus (plus Femme actor Nathan Stewart-Jarrett):