{"id":4100,"date":"2018-07-23T00:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T07:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2018-07-23T00:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T07:54:46","slug":"from-brokeback-to-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/07\/23\/from-brokeback-to-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"From Brokeback to Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This reminded me of the difficulty studios had finding actors to be in&nbsp;<strong><em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; When&nbsp;<strong>Gus Van Sant&nbsp;<\/strong>was going to direct, he was turned down left and right \u2013 even though he had done \u201cMy Own Private Idaho\u201d.&nbsp; \u201cI asked the usual suspects:&nbsp;<strong>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Matt Damon<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ryan Phillippe<\/strong>.&nbsp; They all said no.\u201d&nbsp; Producer and screenwriter&nbsp;<strong>Diana Ossana&nbsp;<\/strong>didn\u2019t fare much better.&nbsp; She reached out to Matt Damon and&nbsp;<strong>Mark Wahlberg<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cThey didn\u2019t give us any real excuse why they wouldn\u2019t.&nbsp; I guess they saw it as too difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To show how far we\u2019ve come, the limited&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>run of&nbsp;<strong><em>The Boys in the Band<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;with a completely queer cast has already recouped its $3.5 million investment.&nbsp; If you plan to see it, get there before it closes on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; This is one show that cannot extend \u2013 most of the cast has other jobs to go to.&nbsp; FYI, I will be at&nbsp;<em>The Actors Fund&nbsp;<\/em>benefit performance at midnight on Thursday, July 27<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; I\u2019ll be the one waving from the box seat, audience left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reminded me of the difficulty studios had finding actors to be in&nbsp;Brokeback Mountain.&nbsp; When&nbsp;Gus Van Sant&nbsp;was going to direct, he was turned down left and right \u2013 even though he had done \u201cMy Own Private Idaho\u201d.&nbsp; \u201cI asked the usual suspects:&nbsp;Leonardo DiCaprio,&nbsp;Brad Pitt,&nbsp;Matt Damon,&nbsp;Ryan Phillippe.&nbsp; They all said no.\u201d&nbsp; Producer and screenwriter&nbsp;Diana Ossana&nbsp;didn\u2019t fare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}