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#3

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 12:29am

lol love how he says twice in this brief interview that this is the first guy he's ever kissed!

Tveit doth protest too much, methinks.
#6

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 8:20am

I don't consider myself to be one of his crazy fans, but I'll be heading to the movies to see this.
#7

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 8:25am

I saw it at the Sydney Film Festival. I don't think Tveit has any spoken lines IIRC, but [cliché] his body does all the talking.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#8

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 9:33am

Huh .... so he gets to kiss Franco and gets paid for it .... some people have all the luck!
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#10

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 1:12pm

Aren't these stories kind of embarrassing for all involved? The writer, the publicist who has to tell his young client to get out there and talk about this crap, the client who does it, the editor who assigns a stupid story like this.

Surely when you dreamed of growing up to write for a magazine you didn't dream of writing this....
#11

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 1:23pm

well, many people who grew up dreaming to write are probably happy to be paid at all. not a value judgment, just cruel reality.
#12

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 3:28pm

JoeKv99: please, lighten up! You're on BROADWAYWORLD discussing the merits of serious journalism?

Updated On: 9/24/10 at 03:28 PM

#13

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 4:50pm

...Did YOU write the article or something?

JoeKv99 raises a valid point. Whenever there's a movie featuring a same-sex kiss between two presumably heterosexual actors, there's always the inevitable question in interviews, whether they appear in print or on screen: "What was it like to OMG KISS A GUY?!?!"

What's the point? It's such a silly question, particularly in this day and age.
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#14

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 5:38pm

I don't know anything about Tveit's sexuality, but I do vividly remember seeing a shot of him in his N2N dressing room and noticing a 'pin up girl' kind of poster. And not the Vargas "artsy" type, but a contemporary bathing suit model from SI type.
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#15

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 6:47pm

I knowww... but then there are all these people that are like, "No, he's gay!" I just wanna know!!
#16

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 9:12pm

> I just wanna know!!

well, of course ... we all do. but that kind of article is never gonna get us one whit closer to the truth.

i think it's subtly and mildly insulting. because everyone has to go out of their way to reinforce aaron's (putative) heterosexuality, the writing and the (presumed) quotes are stilted; as a result, the piece glosses awkwardly. the patina of homophobia is unavoidable ...

plus: they "had each others' backs"???? wtf??? i wasn't aware boy-on-b0y lip-lock was so risky -- i must be doing it wrong.
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#17

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/24/10 at 9:14pm

Perhaps he intended a different meaning when he said they 'had each others' back'.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#18

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/25/10 at 10:21am

oh, believe me -- i've considered all the possibilities.

repeatedly.

:)

in my head, of course, your version is correct; in reality, though, we both know the remarks were rooted in latent homophobia, not in aaron's nascent appreciation of the subtle virtues of a newly-discovered position.
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)

Updated On: 9/25/10 at 10:21 AM

#19

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/25/10 at 10:36am

I would think that if one is NOT gay, then the first time you kiss a same sex someone, it comes with a bit of trepidation -- especially when it's for a performance and not out of natural curiousity. THAT is not the same as homophobia.

If Aaron or any other b'way performer suffers from homophobia -- they are in the wrong venue.
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#20

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/25/10 at 11:29am

I feel like every once in a while somebody does have something new to say about the issue, or at least a new way to say the same old thing. Of COURSE it's rooted in homophobia, what isn't these days? It's what a person says about how he confronts that within himself that can be surprising.

I loved when Sean Penn said after he shot a kissing scene with Franco (hey, is he the Universal Donor of this issue?) he immediately called Madonna and said, "I just kissed a guy for the first time and I thought of you."
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#21

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/25/10 at 11:50am

I have to say I was a bit offended by the "having each others backs" comment. He made it sound like they were about to go into combat.
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#22

Aaron Tveit on kissing James Franco

Posted: 9/25/10 at 11:58am

They were! Remember the "sex" scene in Brokeback Mountain? That depicted exactly what the fantasy of gay male sex is among the unenlightened.
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