Sigourney Weaver tells ET why she's 'most grateful' she got to do 'Prayers for Bobby.' Pride2020
and its sequels, playing interplanetary commando Ellen Ripley, orand countless more. If you ask Weaver, though, she is most proud of the 2009 Lifetime TV movie,"This one is the one I'm most grateful I got to do, because I hope that it will be such a support to these young kids," she told ET by phone."My heart goes out to all of them.
No, I have to say not at all. I mean, living in New York City and knowing so many gay actors and writers and directors, it didn't even occur to me. To me, Mary's story needed to be shared for all families and against the basic ignorance about what it is to be human and what it is to love other human beings. [But] I think the producers probably had such a hard time getting it made.
She came to believe in a God who was about unconditional love. And when I think of the fact that in this country, they're still doing conversion therapy -- I'm just so astonished by anything that sounds like it's from the Dark Ages, in terms of point of view, let alone physical cruelty on so many levels --is the church that I hope we will come to share more and more, not one that says this is an abomination. My heart breaks for those communities.
You mentioned the SCOTUS decision on same sex marriage. What have you seen as the progress we've made as a society when it comes to LGBTQ rights in the years since this movie made, and what would you like to see still to come?
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