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Cucumber & Banana (DVD Review)

March 29, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Vincent Franklin, Freddie Fox, Cyril Nri, Julie Hesmondhalgh
Director: Various
Running Time: 552 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 16th 2015 (UK)

Cucumber arrived on British television with huge amounts of fanfare. After all it was a return to gay Manchester for writer Russell T Davies more than 15 years after Queer As Folk. Plus it came with the interesting idea of having a secondary show, Banana, which aired on E4 and told a half-hour story about one of the characters from the main Cucumber episode.

However after the first episode the critical response was somewhat muted, and while many viewers hung around hoping Cucumber would suddenly become great, a lot of people gave up partway through. However now that the whole thing is complete and has been released on DVD, should everyone have stuck around until the end? [Read more…]

Cucumber & Pride Star Freddie Fox Doesn’t Want To Define His Sexuality

January 20, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Freddie-Fox-in-CucumberIn the last few months you could have been forgiven for assuming that young actor Freddie Fox is gay, due to his turn as a rather fun, camp guy in Pride, and now a sexually voracious bisexual man in Russell T. Davies’ Cucumber. However he’s keen to point out things aren’t as simple as that, and that he doesn’t really want to define his sexuality at all.

Talking to The Telegraph he says, “I hope that I am the type of person who would fall in love with another person, as opposed to a sex. Most of my life to date has been as a straight man, but who knows what will happen next? It sounds evasive, but I don’t think you can necessarily say you’re one thing or another until you’re 100 years old and you’ve done it all.”

He adds that the difficulty with bisexuality is that, “A lot of people will hear that and think it means, ’Well, he’s gay and just excusing it’, or ’He’s been with his girlfriend for a really long time and just wants to change things’. It’s often seen as an excuse that you’re going through a phase of one thing or another. Whereas in fact I would strongly suggest that’s probably not the case for a lot of people.

“Appreciation of both sexes is actually not new; it’s incredibly old it’s Roman, it’s Greek, and it is something people can do throughout an entire lifetime, having hugely meaningful relationships, no matter what sex they are.”

While some will undoubtedly wish to put Freddie in a box, his attitude is becoming increasingly common, with an entire generation of young people who are more open-minded and sexually fluid than ever before. Indeed, his comments will chime with what many in the early 20s already think.

Cucumber and its sister shows, Banana and Tofu, start across Channel 4’s network on Thursday 22nd, January.

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ACTORS: Freddie Fox  FILMS: Cucumber  

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