jakegyllenhaals:“At one point, there was a scene between me and Riz, where the realization was that
jakegyllenhaals:“At one point, there was a scene between me and Riz, where the realization was that it wasn’t just about these men discovering their masculinity but also the men before them and their fathers. That there’s a real shadow - a real ghost of each one of their fathers in the midst of the story. And I think what is really interesting is this sort of profound search for what it is to be a man when there are so few models outside of convention. And I think convention can be tremendously destructive and misleading. I think that that was the idea and I can’t really speak to it except to say that Morris was a character that had many incarnations in many drafts before I even came in. You know? And his relationship with Warm is… there’s that look that they have. That look that you caught where they look at each other for what feels like an eternity where Warm looks at Morris in that moment. And you rarely see a man look at another man like that, you know? Without it having some sort of homoeroticism to it. And maybe there was, maybe there wasn’t, but you rarely see an intimacy and a love where you go like, ‘I’m looking at you, I love you…’ Right? And it’s minus the sexuality. And maybe it isn’t, I don’t know. That wasn’t the concern necessarily - the intimacy was very important and it’s an amazing moment that you see.” — Jake Gyllenhaal -- source link
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