Bridgerton star's new gay drama Fellow Travelers gets release date
Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey's new drama will premiere in the US on October 27 and a day later in the UK via streaming platform Paramount+.
Consisting of eight episodes, this LGBTQ+ epic from Ray Donovan's Ron Nyswaner is adapted from Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel and charts the romance between two men who meet while working for the US government during the height of McCarthyism.
Hawkins Fuller, played by Matt Bomer (American Horror Story), and Tim Laughlin (Bailey) engage in a relationship just as US senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn wage war on "subversives and sexual deviants" in the so-called "Lavender Scare" of the 1950s.
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Previewing the series in May, Bailey teased: "The nuance of a complicated, volatile queer relationship is the power balance. That is what is amazing about Tim and Hawk. Every single sex scene is a meticulous examination of power."
"There's a level of trust and intimacy that's even more valuable when society is against you," added Bomer, "you keep your secrets together."
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Bailey, who also has a key role in the two-part Wicked movie, went on to further discuss the intimate scenes throughout Fellow Travelers.
"I will be so interested to see how people respond to it. To me, being queer is about, as two men, how you negotiate your giving of your body to the other person. That is something that I've always yearned to see properly done because I know how extraordinary it is to experience it.
"It's been just the most joyous, emotional and also informative experience I've had on a job. I've never grieved a character more," he said.
Fellow Travellers comes to Paramount+ this October.
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