.JakeBorelli, ThePeterPaige and Niko Terho from FreeformTV's TheThingAboutHarry talked to us about creating a gay rom-com without shame, representation, and 'the friend zone' 😂
The Thing About Harry
: There is no shame present in the film, no triumphant coming out narrative. Rather, its characters are perfectly comfortable in their identities from the outset, and queerness, rather than being othered or marred by stigma, is aligned with the universal desire for love.
With the backing of Freeform, and its parent company Disney, this visibility is brought to a whole new audience. But the film also serves as unique milestones for each of its stars.marks newcomer Niko Terho’s first on-camera role. And when filming began, it was almost exactly a year to the day that Jake Borelli came out publicly, when his character onwould grapple with the same struggle on primetime.
It's definitely possible, but I feel like the friend zone doesn't occur as frequently as we believe it does.I think you can go through times of being in the friend zone and then times of being more or less than that. Everything can evolve.I'm a hardcore believer that it's a bad idea. For gay men, especially, once you settle into the friend zone, it's really unlikely you’ll claw your way back out.
was a huge turning point for me as an artist. Before that, it was a lot of translating, taking straight relationships and translating them into my own language., the show I was on. Because when I grew up, it was Uncle Arthur on, just because Paul Lynde was such a flamer. Then there were like these little glimmers of RuPaul, when “Supermodel” came out, in the early '90s.
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