this? What makes me feel like people don’t love me?” If you can check in with yourself daily, you’ll be okay.” Tan France piped in regarding the timing of the
show and the difference in content, adding, “The premise of this version of the show is so much more emotionally driven than any of us really expected. We have a platform from where we can have a difficult conversation and we don’t shut up about it and that has been amazing so far,” he said.“The timing was such a smart move on Netflix’s part. They really knew that this was the right moment to make it happen.And the best
part...the response has been completely insane so far.” Brown opined further, “What I love
aboutQE is that we are able to be as open as possible and to be holistic as possible and bring ourselves fully to the conversations we have with these folks that you normally wouldn’t have. In the first iteration of the show they weren’t having conversation like this.” Continuing with, “You wouldn’t hear Carson having a conversation with a cop about police brutality, it just wasn’t happening. You’ve not seen Thom Filicia having a conversation with someone about religion and Christianity. These are the things we’re doing and still having fun.” We talked further about the
differences betweenQE and the originalQueer Eyefor the Straight Guy: how important a milestone it was for 2003 and how that bares out in 2018 with the new iteration. “I wasn’t massively aware of the American version,” offered Tan France. “But I was aware that it was one of the first authentic shows with very real gay men on television. I’d seenWill & Grace, but on the whole, they had all been actors play- ing gay men. They had a script and what they said was something that a team of people had come up with. I had never seen before a moment on television where people were truly themselves, and what they said was what they thought and felt. It spoke to me and what I thought and felt, so for me it was a really important show.” France talked about how important it was to him to have representation
One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that you can provide someone with permanent housing, you can provide them with food,
you can provide them with clothing all day long, but until you change their mindset and their hearts that is never going to stick.”
— karamo brown
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