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Straight guy caught on spy cam12/12/2023 ![]() It's like your classic old-school, Laurence Olivier style. He's a very open hearted, radically non-judgmental person. After watching Nolly, we did wonder if he was queer in real life. This queer sensibility you bring to Tony is really interesting. That sense of solidarity, I think, is gonna really, really resonate with where we are politically in the world, but specifically in this country at this time, especially when it's tough out there. The way that you find comfort and solace and empowerment is in your friends, in the people that you love. It's this idea that these institutions and these people in power are not to be trusted. "I didn't know who Nolly was, which is so f**ked up." He went back to his apartment that Noele Gordon got for him opposite her apartment. For the time, we're talking 1981, he drove Noele Gordon to work every morning. He's in a relationship with a woman, so it's not like he is a gay person, but he's a very queer man. ![]() So I wanted to make sure that I really captured that.īy contemporary standards, he's very queer. He's a really eccentric, kind of magical, unique person. He's got a very specific way of talking, this really specific tone and mannerisms. He has these stories, and this really magnetic, playful, fun energy that I really like. He's 81 now, and I interviewed him twice for two hours each time, which was quite a long time to interview someone. He's the Noele Gordon whisperer, shall we say? He was really generous with his time. Most of the script is based on stories that Tony told. What kind of conversations did you have with the real Tony ahead of playing him in Nolly? I'm so sad that Nolly was just one season. He's the Noele Gordon whisperer, shall we say?" "By contemporary standards, he's very queer."ĭigital Spy caught up with Augustus Prew to unpack the queer sensibilities of Nolly and how Tony Adams fits into all that. "He's like a queer straight guy," says Augustus. In fact, Tony isn't gay at all, contrary to what some people might think after watching the show. This isn't your standard "gay best friend" story though. As Augustus says, it's about time we get "Noele in the canon of homegrown British queer icons." But beyond her appeal to gay men and Russell's own involvement with the show, Nolly also has a queer sensibility thanks to Prew's magnetic turn in the role of Noele's best friend, co-star Tony Adams. That's set to change now though with the release of ITV's Nolly. And although Noele herself wasn't queer, Nolly is still an intrinsically queer show thanks to Gordon's status as a somewhat forgotten gay icon. In what will come as a surprise to no one, Russell's latest show, a tribute to Crossroads' legend Noele Gordon, is another triumph. I feel like he's nailed it with this."Īnd "nailed it" he has. "He's one of our auteurs really, isn't he? One of our all-time special people," says Augustus, unprompted, at the start of our chat. Augustus Prew is in awe of Russell T Davies, the creator of Queer as Folk, It's a Sin, and now Nolly, which Augustus stars in alongside Helena Bonham Carter.
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