Category: Interviews

The Queer Review Interviews

Exclusive Interview: Niegel Smith & Faye Driscoll on directing the world premiere of Taylor Mac’s queer epic Bark of Millions at Sydney Opera House

Legendary performer Taylor Mac and musical director Matt Ray’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music broke ground with its monumental scope and vision, earned the duo a slew of awards (including a Pulitzer Prize nomination) and became the subject of a fascinating HBO documentary made by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman which premiered at Tribeca... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams “the real Cassandro is such a proud, out, gay man who embraces everything about who he is”

When Roger Ross Williams met Saúl Armendáriz, better known as Cassandro, for a 2016 documentary he was directing for The New Yorker—The Man Without a Mask—the filmmaker immediately knew he'd found the subject of his first scripted narrative feature. Making the move from amateur wrestling in El Paso, Armendáriz became a Mexican-American icon with the... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Underwear Expert founder & CEO Michael Kleinmann “it’s the most important thing you wear all day”

Ever wondered what exactly to look out for—aside from recognizable brand names—when buying men's underwear? The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann speaks with his long-lost cousin (probably) Michael Kleinmann, the Founder and CEO of Underwear Expert, to find out. Initially an influential digital media brand, in 2015 Michael transformed Underwear Expert into a leading underwear... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Not Looking co-creators & stars Jonathan Burke, Delius Doherty & Ahmad Maksoud “we want to explore how we love ourselves as gay men of colour”

Fresh, sexy, and necessary, Not Looking takes an insightful and entertaining look at the lives of three newly single gay men of colour in New York City—best friends Olu (Delius Doherty), Brandon (Jonathan Burke), and Sharif (Ahmad Maksoud)—who make a pact to stay out of romantic relationships for a year in order to support each... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Seann Miley Moore stars in Miss Saigon at Sydney Opera House “there’s big Asian energy on the stage right now”

One of Australia’s most prominent nonbinary performers, Seann Miley Moore continues to make their fabulous mark on television—they've appeared on both The X-Factor in the UK and Australia's The Voice—and on stage—most recently earning rave reviews as Angel in Rent at the Sydney Opera House. A headliner at Sydney WorldPride earlier this year, their most... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: director Matthew López on Red, White & Royal Blue “it’s really important to me that my first film has a Latin lead at its centre”

If the number of views for the trailer is anything to go by (7.2 million and counting), anticipation is high for the film adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel Red, White & Royal Blue, which premieres globally on Prime Video on Friday, August 11th. Fortunately for playwright Matthew López, who makes his feauture writing and... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Heartstopper director Euros Lyn “we wanted to do something different with season two”

As the second season of hit series Heartstopper based on Alice Oseman's bestselling graphic novels launches globally on Netflix this week, The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann speaks exclusively with its BAFTA-winning director Euros Lyn. In the opening episode, we're reunited with new boyfriends in the midst of first love, Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: filmmaker D. Smith centres Black transgender sex workers in Kokomo City “their stories needed to be told”

Filmmaker D. Smith's raw, provocative, and funny documentary, Kokomo City, that centres the stories of four captivating Black transgender women, in their own words, won both the NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award when it world premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It went on to win the Audience Award in the Panorama... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Cynthia Nixon directs two back-to-back episodes on the second season of And Just Like That… “direction to me feels like love”

Emmy, Grammy, SAG, and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon had already directed three Off-Broadway productions—Rasheeda Speaking, Steve, and MotherStruck!—when she sat in the director's chair on the first season of the Sex and the City spin-off series And Just Like That.... Nixon follows that assured television directorial debut with two back-to-back episodes as director on... Continue Reading →

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