Quote of the Day

"It’s 2025, and queer audiences want more. We’ve all seen a lot of tropes, especially when it comes to biopics. I’m working on one right now about Alexander McQueen. He was a gay man, HIV positive, artist, genius, living in the world of fashion with addiction, and then there’s suicide. I remember watching [Ryan Murphy’s] “Halston,” and seeing there is a path of queer people being successful and celebrated and flying too close to the sun. They are incinerated in some tragic ending. I think it sticks in our heads that that our lives could potentially go down this path, when our sexuality and lifestyles have a danger or sadness to them. All the secrecy and repression. I’ve made one, my film “Beauty.” But I’d like to offer audiences something else, a different queer experience... 

I love films that have raw sexuality, it’ll take a lot for me to be shocked or feel endangered by queer sex. I made a TV show in 2023 called “Mary and George,” and we would stand on set trying to think of new sex positions. I would turn to Nicholas Galitzine and say, “What have you not done?” He would go, “I got fucked that way yesterday. I already did an orgy with that guy the other day. I topped that guy and bottomed for the other.” The intimacy coordinator would come over with an iPad and flip through new positions. It was the point where I was just trying to differentiate a French orgy from a British one, like Legos."

There's a fun little chat with Moffie and Living director Oliver Hermanus at Variety today where they talk about his upcoming gay romance The History of Sound starring Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal -- a film we've mentioned ohh a few times here at MNPP -- and I just had to excerpt the entire bit about filming gay sex scenes because it made me chuckle. And also to go rewatch Mary and George immediately.