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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Lee Pace Affirms That He’s ‘Happily Owning’ His Place In The Queer Community

March 6, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Pushing Daisies and Halt & Catch Fire star Lee Pace raised a few eyebrows a few days ago when an interview was printed where he kind of came out as LGBT, but seemed to suggest there was something wrong with being asked about it. He said, “I’ve dated men. I’ve dated women. I don’t know why anyone would care. I’m an actor and I play roles. To be honest, I don’t know what to say—I find your question intrusive.”

Many felt it was the wrong response, especially considering his latest role as a closeted Mormon in the Broadway revival of Angels In America. He seemed to underline the issues with his own response as in the interview he also mentioned the importance of gay actors playing the gay roles in the two-part Pulitzer-Prize winning play, but then slightly stepped back from including himself in that.

However, he’s now clarified his remarks and say that it was more clumsiness than anything else that had led to his previous response. On Twitter he writes, ‘In a recent phone interview, I was asked questions that I wasn’t expecting and found myself momentarily at a loss for the right words. My privacy is important to me, so I protect it. When interviewed by the media, I keep the focus on my work… As a member of the queer community, I understand the importance of living openly, being counted, and happily owning who I am. That’s how I’ve always lived my life… just as it’s been important to me to portray queer characters with dignity for my entire career: A Soldier’s Girl (Showtime. 2003). The Normal Heart (Broadway. 2011). Halt and Catch Fire (AMC. 2014-2017). Angels in America. (Broadway. NOW.) Onward, with Pride.’

In a recent phone interview, I was asked questions that I wasn’t expecting and found myself momentarily at a loss for the right words. My privacy is important to me, so I protect it. When interviewed by the media, I keep the focus on my work.

— Lee Pace (@leepace) March 5, 2018

As a member of the queer community, I understand the importance of living openly, being counted, and happily owning who I am. That’s how I’ve always lived my life…

— Lee Pace (@leepace) March 5, 2018

…just as it's been important to me to portray queer characters with dignity for my entire career: A Soldier's Girl (Showtime. 2003). The Normal Heart (Broadway. 2011). Halt and Catch Fire (AMC. 2014-2017). Angels in America. (Broadway. NOW.)
Onward, with Pride.

— Lee Pace (@leepace) March 5, 2018

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Lee Pace Says He’s Dated Both Men & Women, But Finds The Question ‘Intrusive’

March 1, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The idea of a ‘glass closet’, where it’s known someone is LGBT but the person never talks about it has been around since long before Liberace. While more and more actors have come out in recent years, the glass closet is still around (until recently, Kevin Spacey was one of its main inhabitants). Many would say it’s a description that would fit Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace, to the point where a couple of years ago his Hobbit co-star Ian McKellen assumed Pace was openly gay.

However, Lee has never publicly addressed his sexuality, until now, although it sounds like he wishes he didn’t have to. It’s not too surprising the question came up though while Pace was promoting his role as the closeted Mormon Joe Pitt in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. In an interview with W Magazine he says:

“Our understanding of what it means to be gay is just so different,” Pace said of the climate in 2018. “It’s culturally different. It’s just so much further down the road. It’s an interesting thing for me to think about in this moment while working on this play.”

Pace added that he feels it’s important for gay actors to play the gay roles in both plays, but stopped short of labeling himself. He seemed a bit flustered and surprised by the question. “I’ve dated men. I’ve dated women,” he explained. “I don’t know why anyone would care. I’m an actor and I play roles. To be honest, I don’t know what to say—I find your question intrusive.”

Although that’s a common glass closet response, finding such questions ‘intrusive’ is becomingly increasingly untenable in a world where the likes of Neil Patrick Harris can talk about his husband in the same way a straight actress could mention theirs. It’s also true that in the interview Pace doesn’t have problems talking about other aspects of his personal life, but gets flustered when it’s his sexuality – and that’s despite the fact in the last few years he’s played a bisexual character in TV’s Halt And Catch Fire, and a gay character in a stage revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. It’s also odd to expound the importance of having gay actors playing the major roles in Angels In America, but then be surprised when asked if that includes him.

However, to his credit, while he may not like the question he didn’t just avoid it, and nor has he avoided roles that explore sexuality elsewhere. Angels In America is currently playing at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theater for a limited run, with Pace starring alongside Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane.

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ACTORS: Lee Pace  

The Book Of Henry Trailer – Colin Trevorrow moves from dinosaurs to drama/thriller territory

March 31, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Colin Trevorrow had a monster hit with Jurassic World, but rather than staying in the world of dinosaurs or immediately making another mega-budget movie, he decided to helm The Book Of Henry. Not the trailer has arrived, which starts off suggesting this will be a quirky family drama, before veering into surprisingly dark thriller territory.

The Henry of the title is an 11-year-old boy, living with his mother (Naomi Watts) and brother. He realises the girl living next door, Christina, may be in danger from her stepfather, and so starts writing a book about how he’s going to rescue her. Eventually his mother gets involved, but they know it will be difficult to do anything, as Christina’s stepdad is the police commissioner.

Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman and Lee Pace also star. Take a look at the trailer below. The Book of Henry will be in cinemas this summer. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jacob Tremblay, Lee Pace, Naomi Watts, Sarah Silverman  DIRECTORS: Colin Trevorrow  

The Program (Blu-ray Review)

February 18, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Guillaume Canet
Director: Stephen Frears
Running Time: 103 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: February 15th 2016 (UK)

Over the years, numerous movies about Lance Armstrong have been in the works but never got made. Indeed, one was about to move forward just as he admitted he had doped for his entire career. It’s almost a shame we don’t have a movie from when he was almost universally admired as a hero, so we could compare it to the darker world of The Program.

At the start of the movie Lance (Ben Foster) is an okay but unexceptional cyclist, who few think will ever do anything special. After overcoming testicular cancer, he returns with a passion to win, and knowing the world of cycling is riddled with cheats taking performance-enhancing drugs, he decides he will do the same, enlisting the help of Michele Ferrari (Guillaume Canet) to allow him to set up a ‘Program’ that will help him win, as well as arranging to have a team built around him that will ensure a Tour de France victory. [Read more…]

Sarah Silverman & Lee Pace Join Colin Trevorrow’s The Book Of Henry

September 27, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sarah-silvermanColin Trevorrow is a busy man. He’s just coming off the mega-success of Jurassic World, and he’s attached to direct Star Wars Episode IX. However before then he hopes to make the much smaller, The Book Of Henry, which has just added Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace, and Dean Norris to its cast, according to TheWrap.

They join Naomi Watts and child actors Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay. Unfortunately though the new casting doesn’t come with any more info about the plot. All we know is that Gregg Hurwitz wrote the script, which has been described as “remarkable” and “a true original.”

Between Jurassic World and Star Wars, Trevorrow also hopes to make Stealing Time, which has added Pixels Timothy Dowling as a screenwriter. The film, which has been likened to a 1980s Amblin movie, is about a man who invents a time machine but gets lost in the past. His son and grandson have to fix the device in order to rescue him.

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ACTORS: Sarah Silverman, Lee Pace, Dean Norris  DIRECTORS: Colin Trevorrow  

Lee Pace May Be A Prisoner Of War In A Sci-fi Thriller

August 9, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

lee-paceFollowing his duplicitous roles in The Hobbit and Guardians Of The Galaxy, (Richard Armitage’s possible boyfriend) Lee Pace is sticking with the fantastical as Deadline reports he’s set to star in the sci-fi thriller Prisoner Of War. Bérénice Marlohe is also set to star in the alien invasion tale.

The film is ‘the story of an American soldier and a French foreign aid worker who team up in Africa amid humankind’s last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion.’

Chronicle’s Alex Russell was previously set to take the lead role, but he’s now been replaced by Pace. The movie will start filming in September on location in South Africa.

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ACTORS: Lee Pace, Berenice Marlohe  

Has Ian McKellan Accidentally Outed Lee Pace & Another Hobbit Co-Star?

January 6, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Lee Pace

Lee Pace

It seemed Ian McKellen thought he was making a fairly innocuous comment. He made it back in 2012 to the German magazine Brash, where he talked about how far gay actors have come in the last 10 year.

He compared the lack of openly gay actor in Lord Of The Rings to The Hobbit, saying “Look only at how many gay actors are in Hobbit—two of the dwarves, along with Luke Evans, Stephen Fry and Lee Pace… In Lord of the Rings  I was the only one, apart from my make-up artist and a guy in wardrobe team. That is progress, or what?”

No one particularly noticed the comment at the time, but now it’s attracting a bit of attention, as McKellen may have accidentally outed a few people. While Stephen Fry is indeed out and proud, Evans used to be out but has now gone back inside again (not coincidentally he shut up about his sexuality when his career started taking off). Lee Pace meanwhile has never officially been out at all, despite a number of rumours. However McKellen seems pretty sure that he’s gay.

As for ‘two of the dwarfs’, the only openly gay one of their number is Adam Brown (who plays Ori). The rediscovered comment from Sir has led to speculation the other dwarf is Richard Armitage (Thorin), who’s previously been subject to rumours he’s dating Pace. However there’s no actual evidence of that, so we’ll leave you to speculate on who it might be.

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ACTORS: Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Richard Armitage, Stephen Fry, Luke Evans  

Lee Pace To Star Alongside Ben Foster In Lance Armstrong Biopic

November 15, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Lee Pace

Lee Pace

Stephen Frears is already shooting his planned (but currently untitled) biopic of Lance Armstrong, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time to fit in some new cast members. TheWrap reports that Lee Pace has signed up for the film, although there’s no news on exactly who he will play.

John Hodge (Trance, Trainspotting) wrote the screenplay, which covers the cyclist’s career from his testicular cancer comeback to winning seven Tour De France championships, through to his eventual admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his record-breaking run.

It’s not the only Armstrong movie in the works. The main rival project comes from Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions. That one has Bradley Cooper attached to star and is based on Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong by New York Times sports journalist Juliet Macur. Warner Bros. is also developing a Lance Armstrong biopic, securing the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, one of Lance Armstrong’s teammates on the United States Postal Service cycling team, and one of the first to testify under oath that his teammate was doping. Jay Roach is attached to direct that movie from a script by Scott Z. Burns.

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ACTORS: Lee Pace, Ben Foster  DIRECTORS: Stephen Frears  

New The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Sneak Peak, Posters & More

November 5, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Yesterday marked the launch of the final rundown to the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, with a slew of new posters, a three-minute sneak peak and a fan event. And you can see all of that below!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.’

It’s in UK cinemas on December 13th. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans  DIRECTORS: Peter Jackson  FILMS: The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug  

New The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer Debuts

October 1, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


As we were promised, a new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has arrived and it certainly looks pretty, showing of the visuals and action, as well as the return of old friends like Legolas and new character played by actors such as Evangeline Lily, Lee Pace and Luke Evans – the last two of which you can see in new banners above.

There’s also a few giant spider to look out for. But once again the dragon Smaug is only glimpsed in bits and pieces.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece “The Hobbit”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continues the adventures of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

It hits cinemas on December 13th.

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ACTORS: Martin Freeman, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen  DIRECTORS: Peter Jackson  FILMS: The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug  
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