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Gale Harold/Brian Kinney #142 - There's more of him to be seen in 2013!

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The story of Harold’s casting in Queer as Folk has that Hollywood-miracle aura that publicists love. Executive producers Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, the Emmy-award winning writers of the groundbreaking AIDS drama An Early Frost and the long-running drama series Sisters, had acquired the American rights to the British drama series Queer as Folk. They had already cast actors Scott Lowell, Peter Paige, Hal Sparks, and Randy Harrison as a group of gay friends whose intertwined lives would form the basis for the American version of the story. The casting had been nightmarish for Lipman and Cowen because agents wouldn’t send their clients in to read for the parts in the show. The part of Brian Kinney was particularly difficult.

“Here’s a gay man, very sexual, very masculine, not the kind of gay character people are used to seeing,” says Lipman. “If he were a straight male character fcking every woman in sight, he’d be a hero. So this was not like the other roles, and that was part of the difficulty.”

“It was an extremely distressing experience trying to cast Brian, because of what we discovered to be the massive amount of homophobia [in Hollywood],” says Cowen. “We were so shocked and so upset, because we went into this thinking that in the years since An Early Frost things had changed. What we had discovered was that things hadn’t changed one iota.”

Late on a Friday afternoon, with an 8:30 a.m. Monday meeting scheduled to introduce their cast to the Showtime executives, Lipman and Cowen still didn’t have their Brian Kinney.

“It was a test of faith, and by Friday at 5 p.m. faith was running out,” Lipman says ruefully. At 5:45 p.m., their casting director called. “She said, ‘Come on over right now, he’s here!’” Lipman recalls. “In walks Gale Harold, and we’re looking at him and he’s reading the scene, and Ron and I are looking at each other, and it’s like, Is he fcking fabulous?”

“He fell out of the sky,” Cowen breathes. “There’s truly no other explanation.”

Lipman asked Harold to be at the Showtime offices in Los Angeles at 8 a.m. on Monday. “He lit up a cigarette, and, very Brianesque, he said, ‘I’m with this repertory company, and we have to strike a set on Sunday night, and I don’t think I can make it.’ And we’re thinking, Is he for real? Who says that? We’ve been in Hollywood too long. What do you say to that?” Lipman laughs, shaking his head in disbelief. He pressed a copy of the script into Harold’s arms and asked him to read it and call them at home the next day.

“I was standing in the kitchen,” Cowen remembers, “and the phone rang and a voice said, ‘Hi, this is Brian Kinney.’”

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"You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either." - Gale Harold

"Gale: Brilliant, enigmatic, screwy." - Scott Lowell

"When we met him, Brian and Gale just fused. Gale has such sexuality as a person that it's kind of daunting. How many people could be as open or fluid and bring that to a character? It doesn't have anything to do with being gay or straight. He's breaking new ground for bringing sexuality to a performance, and not just gay sexuality. I don't think any other actor has ever done what he's doing. I think it's kind of historic." - Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman

"If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off." - Gale Harold

"He's intense, and he likes that people think that about him... he seems more intense than he really is, though. Gale's sillier and laughs more than Brian does. He's kinder. And I don't think he's quite as manipulative." - Randy Harrison

"We kept pushing back the shooting date, and people were getting tense. But when Mr. Gale Harold walked in, Ron and I looked at each other and absolutely knew. He had a certain kind of cockiness. But he's very, very charming underneath all that. He has his own direction and agenda. There's no bullsht with him." - Daniel Lipman

"I think it's good that men are being objectified because since forever women have been objectified. We're flipping the coin because things have been lopsided on TV and film for so long. Another good point to the show is that it portrays men's sensuality. They're not just all about sex and only sex." - Gale Harold

"Gale does things because he wants to, not because he feels obligated. If he doesn't feel like showing up someplace, he just won't show up. But on the last day of shooting, he brought flowers for everyone. He's a gentle, enigmatic and aloof spirit." - Michelle Clunie

"He's a dork in the body of a God." - Peter Paige

"I want to keep developing. I want to become relaxed in my own work and go deeper. Just growing and studying and trying new things and hopefully having professional access to work that's good and interesting. I don't want to be on the treadmill of artificiality." - Gale Harold

"Gale is totally cool and secure enough not to be threatened by anything. He knows who he is. That makes him more than an actor; it makes him a very fine human being." - Ron Cowen

"Gale is, he's just gorgeous, you know! What can I say? He's a gorgeous man, inside and out. I always look forward to working with him on my scenes, because there is a receptivity to him that is so complete, and wholesome. He has a real wholesome nature about life. He's very down to earth, and that's what I think makes him so attractive, because he just really stands on his own two feet, and lets the world come to him, and he will give back to the world. He has a real sort of give and take philosophy about life, and I think that makes him a terrific and deep actor." - Thea Gill

"My desire, above all else, is for Brian to be as realistic and human as possible. So, I try, within the constraints I am given, to find a way... I try to let something get through. And I hope that if enough gets through, there will be significant growth for Brian at least to become more self-aware. And hopefully some self-awareness will lead to deeper accessibility to his feelings towards his friends and lovers." - Gale Harold

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tftnt, Claudia :)

I hope we'll get to see more of him :)

That sure would be nice :)

Manu, I just wanted to answer your statement about the G&D pic. It was posted to Danielle's instagram account after she locked it down. I agree w/you that if it's public, then it's fair game. About the Rebecca Adler pic someone else mentioned, she posted it herself on twitter.

thanks for the new thread!

it's so weird to be only 12 days till Christmas and to realize we havent had any news in the past years of gale having to do with any news related to christmas holidays. or have i missed something?

We had no career news for him this year :(
Except the canceling of TSC.

What was the last thing we saw him at? Was it the Italia Con thing, or the After Elton Party? (I think that's what it was) I know they were around the same time, and that was a while ago.

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Originally Posted by Kinnetta (Post 66799292)

Danielle's instagram is now public, as is her facebook, and she just posted a pic of one of Gale's Ducati's. I don't think either of them really care about their privacy or else Danielle wouldn't keep posting pics on her instagram....she seems to really dig herself, there are so many pics of her posing :rolleyes:

it's really a confusing thing about danielle. if theyre a couple well then maybe it's true, love is blind and may be deaf and mute too (gale's really quiet as always), cos we're hearing no couple news so far.

oh what the heck it's their lives. let them be. if they feel like sharing, why not. (just so sorry im clueless about all this stuff except for the photo posted earlier).

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Originally Posted by 90210-Steffi (Post 66803984)

We had no career news for him this year :(
Except the canceling of TSC.

It really sucks :( :nod:

Thanks for the new thread.

Let's all just try to behave like this, I guess: if a picture is posted on a public page, then it can be brought over here, but it would be nice to have a link to the source. If the picture is posted somewhere private, let's not post it here even if it was posted elsewhere on the internet.

That sounds reasonable :)

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Originally Posted by Manu9 (Post 66808020)

ITA!

I'm really trying to stay out of it since I've decided a while back not to comment on Gale's private life here on this board but I have to say that personally I'm not a huge fan of people who put every aspect of their lives on the internet (esp on instagram, FB and such )

Many people in my family such as my brother, my SIL and my aunt are an instagram and FB addicts, tbh,and I can't really get that. I love taking pics with my phone but since I'm not on FB Twitter or anything like that I'm not putting them out there, except for random pics on my LJ but I make sure the entry would be f-locked.

Plus I would think that if a person takes pic of themselves with their bf/gf they would respect their partner and let them know they intend to put the pic online because NOT everyone likes it when their pic is all around the internet.

Even if a person posted a private pic and then deleted their account or made it private- there's enough time for other people to see said pic online and talk about it, esp when the person is quite well known and their gf/bf are not ;)

That's all I'm going to say about it.

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Originally Posted by Manu9 (Post 66808020)

i agree with this.

but what makes me hold back from posting the link here is the info that for some unexplained reason, sometimes it's public, and at other times it becomes private. so from that alone i think it's per chance (is per chance the right term?). it's to each his own googling the instagram account if anyone wants to see it.

i actually did end up seeing the photos, and i still stick to my opinion - it's their private lives, they can do whatever they want with it, i really dont make judgements against anyone in any relationship primarily bec i dunno them personally. and if so they feel like sharing their photos, why not. posted whether for good or bad intentions only they will know. to judge these two people by using only a set of photos, it's plain ridiculous. i dont understand the hate in all that. (this board so far has no violent reactions, i guess we're all on good conversation mode over here thank goodness.) they're photos, and it's possible there's a purpose for it all which may even be isnt what we think it is. so no point in judging negatively.

as far as im concerned, as a forum member id like to enjoy news, photos, whatever that is related to him- for information. my eyes are suddenly so tired.

I think we're all adult and respect each others opinions whether we agree with them or not :)