{"id":33441,"date":"2024-03-26T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/our-son-director-on-creating-billy-porter-and-luke-evans-intimate-marriage-films-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:12:09","slug":"our-son-director-on-creating-billy-porter-and-luke-evans-intimate-marriage-films-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/our-son-director-on-creating-billy-porter-and-luke-evans-intimate-marriage-films-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Son director on creating Billy Porter and Luke Evans\u2019 \u2018intimate\u2019 marriage | Films | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hollywood stars Billy Porter and Luke Evans are at the centre of the intense and intimate family drama Our Son, now available to rent or buy in the UK.<\/p>\n

American actor and fashion icon Billy stars opposite the UK\u2019s own Luke as Gabriel and Nicky, a middle-aged gay couple who are faced with an impossible decision when their marriage begins to crumble.<\/p>\n

Express.co.uk recently spoke to director Bill Oliver, who revealed he drew out his leads\u2019 raw performances with very little rehearsal time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very natural, [their chemistry] was immediate,\u201d he said. \u201cThey hadn\u2019t met before, but the sparks were there from the very beginning, the first Zoom rehearsals that we had.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe audiences needed to believe that they had been a couple for a long time and, even though they\u2019re divorcing, that they love each other. There\u2019s romantic chemistry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our Son director on creating Billy Porter and Luke Evans\u2019 \u2018intimate\u2019 marriage (Image: VERTICAL)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cFrom the visual team, to the actors, to the writing, it was important to me that this family exists. Because they do. There are queer families, gay couples raising children in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, with the actors, in the US at least, it\u2019s very hard to get actual rehearsal time. It just doesn\u2019t fit into the budget or the actors\u2019 schedules.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, I\u2019m also not big on rehearsals. You don\u2019t want them to be overworked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver took inspiration from his own experience raising children to tell this powerful slice-of-life story and wanted Nicky and Gabriel\u2019s relationship to feel as lived-in as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nicky and Gabriel struggle to raise their son while they go through a divorce (Image: VERTICAL)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI like to be more hands-off,\u201d he said of his directing style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take very great care with the script and the casting process, and all my preparation, so by the time we get to the set I feel confident.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to just create a shooting environment where they feel comfortable and taken care of. I worked with a cinematographer who came from a documentary background.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s from Italy, he grew up helping his father film weddings and then became a wildlife photographer. He\u2019s about capturing that fleeting moment that happens once and if you mess it up it\u2019s not gonna come back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Director Bill Oliver drew from his own experiences of fatherhood (Image: VERTICAL)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI wanted it to feel unscripted. And the actors loved that. He literally wore the camera on his body and was very close to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we didn\u2019t use any lights, it was all available light coming through the windows and from the laps. So there wasn\u2019t a lot of equipment around so they could feel like this really was their house.\u201d<\/p>\n

As LGBTQ+ stories are still underserved in mainstream Hollywood films, Billy knew it was important to feature queer talent both in front of and behind the camera.<\/p>\n

Conversations about straight actors playing gay roles continue to cause debate, and the director says it\u2019s a testament to how much we\u2019ve progressed that it thankfully wasn\u2019t a struggle to cast authentically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our Son is now available to rent or buy on digital (Image: VERTICAL)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThrough the course of making this film, that debate has gone through so many developments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, it was important to me that they be out gay actors if at all possible, because I wanted that lived-in, authentic feel. It\u2019s not like they were playing a famous conductor or something they could hide behind. They were themselves, just transparent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if they were straight actors it would have been a whole different thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One scene in particular exemplified this, as Billy explained: \u201cEveryone who played a gay character was out. That became a very beautiful thing on the set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA scene that was very emotional for me was when the friends are sitting around having brunch and just talking about their fathers. And it felt so honest and kind of incredible that I had gotten this group together.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they felt it, too. They were part of something that they don\u2019t get to do very often at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our Son is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store or Amazon Video.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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