Ryan Corr, Craig Stott, Anthony Lapaglia, Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox head the cast in Holding the Man, Neil Armfield.s love story/drama based on Tommy Murphy.s acclaimed stage play.
Corr and Stott will portray Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo, who met and fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school.
John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years despite separations, discrimination, temptations, jealousies and losses. It ended with both men's deaths from AIDS-related complications.
Shooting starts in Melbourne next week, produced by Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires). Murphy adapted Tim.s book for the screen.
Lapaglia and Camilla Ah Kin are cast as John.s parents Bob and Lois and Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox are Tim.s parents Dick and Mary-Gert.
Corr recently worked in Russell Crowe...
Corr and Stott will portray Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo, who met and fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school.
John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years despite separations, discrimination, temptations, jealousies and losses. It ended with both men's deaths from AIDS-related complications.
Shooting starts in Melbourne next week, produced by Goalpost Pictures. Kylie du Fresne (The Sapphires). Murphy adapted Tim.s book for the screen.
Lapaglia and Camilla Ah Kin are cast as John.s parents Bob and Lois and Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox are Tim.s parents Dick and Mary-Gert.
Corr recently worked in Russell Crowe...
- 9/4/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Anthony Lapaglia, Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox are to star alongside upcoming Australian pair Ryan Corr and Craig Stott when Candy director Neil Armfield begins filming Holding The Man in Melbourne next week.
Corr and Stott play Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo in this adaptation of a real-life boy-boy love story, while the other three – and also Camilla Ah Kin – play their parents.
“We would have done 400 auditions in six months for those two roles,” producer Kylie du Fresne told ScreenDaily.
It was a challenge in part because the actors are aged 16 and at school at the beginning of the film and in their 30s with a lot of life experience by the end. Sparks also had to fly between them. The creative team were open to casting four people but it was not their ideal.
Corr had to be released from the cast of Cyrano de Bergerac by the Sydney Theatre Company in order to accept...
Corr and Stott play Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo in this adaptation of a real-life boy-boy love story, while the other three – and also Camilla Ah Kin – play their parents.
“We would have done 400 auditions in six months for those two roles,” producer Kylie du Fresne told ScreenDaily.
It was a challenge in part because the actors are aged 16 and at school at the beginning of the film and in their 30s with a lot of life experience by the end. Sparks also had to fly between them. The creative team were open to casting four people but it was not their ideal.
Corr had to be released from the cast of Cyrano de Bergerac by the Sydney Theatre Company in order to accept...
- 9/4/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
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