Bomer is appearing in the Broadway production of “The Boys in the Band,” just a few blocks away from “Angels in America.” What happened was, an entire world of artists who I had always dreamed of working with and who wanted to engage with me on the most authentic level all came to the forefront.”
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When asked if he had experienced negative repercussions after his own coming out, Mr. “That’s assuming that that even happens,” he said.
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Pace has the full support of his current team, he added, with whom he has been working happily for years. He said, ‘I heard you’re gay, is that true?’ I said, ‘Is that a problem?’ And of course he said, ‘No, fine, just felt like I needed to know.’ But within about a year, he was no longer working with me.” He took me to some coffee shop in the middle of the afternoon and I knew he wanted to talk about something.
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I remember when I signed with a new agent, we worked together for a year. There are still relatively few out gay actors, along with leading-man parts for them, at least in major studio fare. Unlike Broadway, Hollywood can be less accepting. “She said, ‘I don’t know what that means.’” But she was supportive. He came out to his younger sister, Sally, while still in high school. Pace was born in Chickasha, Okla., and grew up in suburban Texas. When someone comes at you that you don’t know, interested in that area of your life, it’s not always a good thing. “The truth is,” he said at his apartment, “when you grow up queer, you get tough. In an effort to take back his own narrative, he announced on Twitter that he was a “member of the queer community,” and noted he’d been playing queer characters his entire career, from his breakout role as the transgender showgirl Calpernia Addams in “A Soldier’s Girl” through his Broadway debut in “The Normal Heart” to the bisexual former IBM executive of “Halt and Catch Fire” and now, “Angels.” “Onward,” he wrote, “with Pride.” Pace was displeased he had come off angry. I was like, ‘Oh my God, whattt?’ He was so tall and handsome! I thought, I’ll ride this wave for a minute.” She laughed. I didn’t think anything of it but to be flattered that anyone would think he would want to go out with me.
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When I saw that stuff online, I thought it was really strange. “I didn’t really talk about it to anyone - not even really because he asked me not to, just because it’s his business. He brought her to the premiere of “A Single Man.” Pace was so not out that occasionally gossip blogs would put him together with an actress, like his friend Judy Greer. To be honest, I don’t know what to say - I find your question intrusive.” He seemed “flustered” and “surprised,” Mr. Pace had already said in that interview that he “feels it’s important for gay actors to play the gay roles.”īut he was thrown. It seems an entirely predictable question for an interview about the cornerstone of the gay theatrical canon. Pace’s arrival in the “Angels” Broadway cast for W Magazine, put the question to him directly: What was his sexual orientation?
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In interviews, he kept the focus on his work: “I believe very firmly that my work is the reason we’re talking, and my personal life is something I want to protect.”īut earlier this year, Brian Moylan, writing about Mr. Pace said in a recent interview at his New York apartment, as his rescue dog, Pete, dozed by his feet. “It was a real strategy to draw boundaries,” Mr. Pace sometimes attracted attention - from the nominating committees of the Emmys, the Golden Globes and the Independent Spirit Awards - but mostly disappeared into whatever elves, necromancers or sales executives he happened to be playing at the time.
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Pace, 39, has been working steadily in theater, film and TV for the better part of two decades, helping to prop up mega-budget studio tent poles like “The Hobbit” (he is the elven king Thranduil) and “Guardians of the Galaxy” (the ferocious Ronan the Accuser) and cult favorites like “Pushing Daisies” and the recently concluded “Halt and Catch Fire.” Before “The Book of Mormon,” no less.įive nights and two afternoons a week, one of those Mormons, Joe Pitt, a closeted lawyer working for the infamous fixer Roy Cohn, goes through hell and out the other side to come out as a gay man.Īnd so, over the course of this production - now the play with the most Tony nominations in history - does Lee Pace, the man who plays him. It is also, at the same time, a skein of interconnected stories about love and betrayal and identity, God, man and Eros. “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” as its playwright, Tony Kushner, called it, “Angels” is a knotty, furious history play, a jeremiad on the AIDS epidemic originally delivered at crushing ascent. Five nights and two afternoons a week on Broadway, “Angels in America” sets out on its grueling, eight-hour course.