‘I find (sex scenes) really fun and enjoyable and funny and weird and hilarious and a great opportunity to share a lot about characters,’ he says. Groff, who recently took some time off from the Broadway musical Hamilton to film a Looking finale to air early next year, doesn’t seem to mind those sex scenes at all – scenes that most actors routinely describe as awkward and not sexy. He adds: ‘I’ve never done a sex scene with someone that has not been so respectful and great about smelling fine and making it as palatable as possible.’ ‘I’ve never done a sex scene with someone who smells bad or I didn’t like something about them,’ Groff tells Michelangelo Signorile of Sirius XM. It’s a good thing because his character of Patrick has shared several intimate scenes with his boss Kevin (Tovey) with whom he’s had a torrid affair and with hairdresser Richie (Castillo) with whom he’s had an on-again, off-again relationship. When Looking is at its best, it justifies the existence of this movie, even if we thought we didn’t need one.Without naming names, Jonathan Groff makes clear in a new interview that his Looking co-stars Russell Tovey and Raúl Castillo show up for work fresh and clean. It wonders how our lives can be successful when they turn out to be nothing at all like we imagined.
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It questions the outsider status of gay culture now that it has been embraced by the mainstream. It examines what gay relationships mean for a generation of men who never thought they’d have the chance to get married. Looking gets to the heart of issues that no other show on television would bother to tackle. There’s also a wonderful exchange between Patrick and the justice of the peace (the legendary Tyne Daly from Cagney & Lacey) at the wedding where they discuss what makes marriage work and if she can tell if a person is ready when they say their vows. Dom and Patrick, for instance, lie in bed together and try to figure out if they were meant to end up as a couple all along. If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.Ī number of these conversations are poignant and very well observed. Almost invariably this happens over food. But the real magic, as always, is in the dialogue, the lengthy discussions between the friends about their place in this big gay world.
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The movie sees its characters hanging around, celebrating and enjoying each other’s company one more time. Expecting an action-packed show in a bit like watching Frozen and being surprised to hear Let It Go. Not much happens in the movie, but nothing really ever happened on Looking. The blanks between him sitting in Ricky’s chair to leaving town altogether are never adequately filled in. The whole movie takes place over the course of a weekend when Patrick returns to San Francisco for a wedding after moving back to his hometown of Denver. It’s as if Lannan and Haigh had to go out of their way to find some drama. That’s what makes the Looking movie, a one-time, 84-minute special to wrap up the series, so curious. Sure, no one wanted the show to end, especially creator Michael Lannan and director Andrew Haigh, but we left everyone in a good place. Agustín stopped sleeping with rent boys, settled down with a nice man and got a real job instead of struggling to be an artist. Dom finally got out of his co-dependent relationship with Doris (Lauren Weedman) and opened his own restaurant – well, a window that serves food.
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By the final episode Patrick wasn’t the only one who was ready to be a grownup.