никогда у меня особо не доходили руки, до того, что бы толком почитать интервью)
хотя конечно кое чего я читала, например то самое интервью Хэла Спаркса, где он во всех проблемах винит одного гея и одного натурала ))) еще кое чего, но больше отрывками, кусочками... все собиралась исправиться и вчера полезла в соо Ренди в жж (потому как он меня все такии более всего занимает привлекает из всей компании, да и вообще, интервью его... радуют )
короче нашла в соо транскрипт, журналистка выложиила все свою беседу с ним, прям в нередактированном виде)
количество um и you know впечатляет )))
так конечно запрещено его постить где либо без спроса, но... опять же 6 лет прошло, так что выложу... что б не потерялось) ну и мож еще кто почитает... оно естественно на англ, так что сорри тем, кто не...
может именно это и не самое жгучее, но мне отчасти интересно именно нередактированность и вот ссылко на конечный, напечатанный результат (его еще не читала) http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.06/spotlight/harrison.html

интервью брала missdeviant

ггы A: So how do you feel that – I mean, there are so many—especially straight women who are really into the Brian and Justin relationship.

R: Right. I know. *laughs* I find it sort of mildly amusing.

A: *laughs* How so?

R: It just seems kind of strange, I’m not really a television person, so whenever people get sort of obsessive relationships about television characters I find it sort of bizarre.



читать дальше**interviewers note: Remember that I had no clue that Randy would be calling for an interview, and no questions prepared. So if the first bit of the interview seems shaky, just think about how *you* would act if Randy Harrison called you up and you answered the phone with a mouthful of pasta. Thank you.

Ann: Awesome. So why don’t you start out by telling me a little bit about how you got your role on Queer as Folk, how you got into acting.

Randy: I’ve been acting since I was a kid, I started acting when I was about…eight

A: So where did you go to theatre school?

R: I went to Theatre school in Cincinnati at the conservatory.

A: So are you from the Midwest?

R: No, no, I’m from, um, … Atlanta

A: See, see, if I had all my stuff ready, I wouldn’t have had to ask you those questions. All the boring background! --God, I’m sorry, I’m totally like, the space cadet interviewer today.

A: So you been doing anything fun lately.

R: Um. I’ve been working.

A: Just working? So what episode are you guys filming right now?

R: Oh, we’re done.

A: Oh, you’re totally done with the fourth season?

R: We’re done, yeah.

A: Oh damn.

R: Yeah, we finished about a month ago.

A: *gasp* That’s not fair, that they make us wait so long to watch all of ‘em.

R: I think it has something to do with, uh, like, the L word, lining things up. And I know they take a long time to write…and if we’re coming back for another season, there’s going to be a certain amount of lag time.

A: So, is the fourth season, um…is that kind of a standalone season, is there a cliffhanger at the end, or…

R: Um, there are some. I mean things sort of…it’s semi wrapped up. It’s a bit more wrapped up than the other seasons. And nobody knows whether we’re coming back or not.

A: God that’s horrible. So tell me about the Brian and Justin situation this season.

R: Um, it’s relatively undramatic. I think we’re over our major relationship storyline. I think we’re pretty secure with where we stand in the relationship between Justin and Brian. Um, it’s definitely not—it’s not the major storyline it was, it’s just sort of something that exists.

A: So how do you feel that – I mean, there are so many—especially straight women who are really into the Brian and Justin relationship.

R: Right. I know. *laughs* I find it sort of mildly amusing.

A: *laughs* How so?

R: It just seems kind of strange, I’m not really a television person, so whenever people get sort of obsessive relationships about television characters I find it sort of bizarre.

A: *laughs nervously*

R: It’s really sweet and it’s nice that for whatever reason the storyline and our work is so compelling.

A: Mmm hmm. So you’re not the kind of person who’s like, going on message boards where everybody’s like “Brian/Justin, ohmigod, ahhh!”

R: Oh, no. No.

A: *more nervous laughter* You don’t even go on just to check out what they’re sayin?

R: No. No. Never done that.

A: *laughter* [thinking, oh, shit, let’s get off this before he realizes *I’m* one of the crazy people] So what about Justin this season. What kind of things are in store for him?

R: Um, a friend of his gets bashed and doesn’t press charges, and it ends up bringing up all these emotions that Justin didn’t deal with about his bashing. He ends up joining a vigilante group, getting sort of violent…feeling sort of passive and castrated. Sort of an interesting storyline at the beginning of the season. And then later on things happen in his career that are kind of interesting. He starts kind of moving forward into having a career with the comic book, and job opportunities are coming up for him.

A: So do you draw at all in real life?

R: No. No.

A: [dramatic] Do you ever wish you did?

R: Um, I wish I could, but I don’t…I mean, I draw for fun. But I don’t have the talent.

A: So, pretty divergent tastes between you and your character

R: Oh yeah, completely.

A: Any similarities?

R: We look a lot alike…

A: *laughs* Wear the same clothes….

R: Actually, we don’t wear the same clothes.

A: Sound the same.

R: Um, actually, my voice is a little different than Justin’s. The dialogue is such that it just changes the meter with which you speak. Um, I mean, I don’t know, I think we had much more similarities at the beginning of the season [series]. I think that when he was younger he was more similar to maybe what I was when I was that age. But, you know we sort of have grown up in really different directions…it’s harder for me to relate to him now than it ever has been. I mean it’s more of a stretch.

A: Do you like the direction that Justin has taken?

R: Um, there are things I like about it and things I….[trails off]. It’s fun to play. I mean, like

A: I mean, you know, just like, the relatability—you said it was more relatable in the past.

R: I mean, I like that he’s more different from me now. I find it interesting. I find it kind of interesting to start playing someone that you um that has sort of grown into someone that you probably wouldn’t hang out with in real life, er, or have that much interest in talking to…

A: *laughs*

R: You know, I mean it’s different…and I find it sort of fascinating that there was a time when we were more alike, and …it’s also a TV show, I mean come on, he’s not a real person. And it’s pretty clear that he’s …. I mean…it feels strange to be talking about him because he’s not a real person.

A: So you’re not a TV person. Are you a movie person, a music person?

R: I just don’t watch TV that much. Um. I find I like, if it’s a show I really love, I’ve never been able to maintain interest in a show beyond two seasons. I just, like, lose interest really fast. It kind of gets boring and repetitive …. But, you know, TV’s sort of on in the house. Um, yeah, I mean, I love film, I love theatre, I love music. …

A: You film in Vancouver, right?

R: Um, no. Toronto.

A: Toronto. I knew it was a Canadian city…one of those, up North, where it’s cold. So do you live up there?

R: I live there when we’re shooting.

A: So now that you know, you’re not sure whether you’re being picked up – or even, you know, just in general during the off-seasons, when you’re not filming, what do you do?

R: Um, I do a lot of theatre and I’m in school at Columbia—that pretty much fills up my days. You, I reconnect with all my friends who I’m apart from for six months. I usually spend a week with my family. Um, but I mean, I did a lot of theatre two years ago, and I work with a theatre company here a lot. Do theatre a lot. And I audition. I did, like, a TV movie a few years ago.

A: Do you prefer doing theatre or television.

R: I prefer doing theatre.

A: So what do you study at Columbia?

R: I haven’t declared anything. I’m taking a bunch of different classes, mostly in the—I mean, it will definitely be a sort of artistic degree. Not acting. Probably sort of performance studies or …. English Literature.

A: Gotcha. I was an English major, so…

R: Were ya?

A: Aw yeah.

R: Yeah, I take a lot of, you know, literature classes. Film classes. But I’ll probably just do it part time I don’t want to stress myself uh ….

A: Right, right

R: We’re pretty much done. I’m bad at it.

A: You don’t enjoy doing these interviews?

R: Well, no, this is fine. … But it’s different when, you know, you have to get dressed up and all these people are like taking pictures of you…it’s such a, a

A: Sometimes you just want to put on a t-shirt and schlub around.

R: Right, at this point we’ve been doing it for four years, so, and it’s not like I’m promoting a new thing. It’s the same thing that I’ve been doing for a long time.

A: So, I wanna switch tacks a little bit. There’s really been this explosion of gay awareness in television lately. And I think QaF was one of the first things that started mainstreaming it…even though it’s on cable…and now you have the whole “Queer Eye” and everything else. How does it feel to be a part of that?

R: I know, I don’t think I really….Um, I mean, I’m glad. And I felt like it when I started doing Queer as Folk. I mean, I was aware of it, that we were pushing boundaries, and we were the first of a lot of things. And it felt good to know that. But we’ve done that. And we did it four years ago. It all kind of seems like a fad, a little bit. And as much as people believe it’s progress, it doesn’t seem like it’s really…I mean, I think the most important thing is about at least created a sort of a dialogue for people to talk about gay rights and talk about homosexuality, and I think it probably it is at this point probably a little bit easier for teenagers to come out and for people who sort of are in positions where they’re tortured by their identity to sort of…[missing bit]…a little better? But as far as what it’s done for the gay community, you know, that’s already out, and active. I don’t know that there’s necessarily been progress. I mean, I feel like there’s a backlash, already, a little bit. I feel like, um, it’s as limiting in what people expect of you as a homosexual, or what they think you are in…you know, we sort of define ourselves in a way, by these representations of a really small aspect of what we are in the community. Um, and I think it’s almost over. You know, and I [always kind of felt?] like that.

A: Yeah. But, I mean, in some ways I look at it personally as something good…do you think that it was something good, in the “fad”?

R: Oh yeah, absolutely. Oh, it was absolutely something good. I mean, it’s just hard because I’m more interested in, you know, laws actually changing, and the true perception, the American perception of what we are actually changing, and I don’t really see that happening. I mean, we’re still pushing. But I feel like –it almost- that whole aspect of you know, civil rights, it’s totally independently [sic] of a television set.

A: Yeah I totally agree…on that.

R: You know, I’m glad that one of the first major things I did, as far as job wise, was something that does have some social relevance.

A: So do you think you’ll look back and kind of be like “aw, Justin.” You know, look back fondly on it, or are you afraid you’re gonna be pigeonholed?

R: Um, I mean, I feel like I already am pigeonholed, which is something I …I mean, I *know* I’ve been pigeonholed. And that’s something I you know, it’s frustrating, but sort of exciting. you know, it’s a challenge, and I look forward to overcoming it. Um, no I don’t think there’s any way that I wouldn’t be able to look back on the experience positively. I think I’ll need a little bit of distance, I definitely sort of am looking forward to when it was five years ago that everybody thought I was Justin. I look forward to putting a distance between myself and it someday, but I mean, it’s been a great experience. It *is* a good experience, and I’m proud of the work I’ve done. And I, you know, really enjoy the people I’ve met, and you know…

A: So you and everybody that you work with, you know, how do you guys get along?

R: We get along *really* well. Like, I think we all have a lot of respect for each other, and, um, yeah we get along really well. Unbelievably well. Which is great because we’re all displaced, and living in another city, and we’re really all we have.

A: You see each other naked on a regular basis.

R: right yeah. Which is just silly. It makes such little difference after. I mean, pretty quickly. Unless someone’s sort of uninvolved.

A: So the infamous sex scenes…

R: They were fine. They were…they were fine. Um. They were easy to do. Easier to do than a lot of some of the more emotional things. The things that were a little bit more convoluted in the writing. It’s pretty simple. And I think there was an awkwardness a little bit, but not really. You either do it or you don’t. And I think both of us are the kind of actors who are like, if we’re gonna do this we might as well go for it. Like there’s no point in being silly and tiptoeing around things. And it was liberating to start that way. And it really isn’t…I mean, you just find it funny that people like to latch onto sex for some reason still, and get sort of obsessive about the naked body, but…

A: Hey, you’ve got a decent naked body, right? I mean, you’ve gotta flaunt it while you can!

R: Oh, I don’t really feel like I’m flaunting it. You know, but it’s funny because everyone wants to talk about it. There are scenes that are a lot harder, and there are scenes that are a lot more embarrassing to do, and there are scenes, um, that I…and it’s funny, because when you watch it, sort of just by the fact that it’s two people who *appear* to be naked, even though we’re not, um, in proximity to each other, an amount of intimacy comes across that oftentimes just really isn’t there. It’s totally technical. Um. But, you know, people see two things and they create that in their minds. You know, you can’t *see* two naked people together that close and not just assume a sort of kind of intimacy. Um, whether or not it’s actually occurring.

A: So, what’s a more embarrassing scene to do, then?

R: I think there are lines where you’re like “wow.” *laughs* And there are uh, um, you know a lot of times, like, you’re working with different actors, there are day players who come in who sometimes it’s really difficult, you know when you’re trying to connect with someone or you have a scene that’s intimate, you know, not physically but emotionally, and you just are unable to connect with your scene partner. There’s something humiliating about that. You know, when you act, you’re exposing yourself emotionally, and um, then the joy of it, is when you’ve connected with someone else, with a group of people, I mean, you’re not in it alone. You’re all sort of--you’re having this collective fantasy that you’re trying to impart on an audience, but when you’re up there on your own, you just kind of feel like an idiot.

A: *laughs*

R: If, you know, no one’s there with you. Um and, you know, sometimes that happens. It’s sort of humiliating.

A: Do you have a favorite scene that you’ve done, or a favorite episode?

R: Um, I liked the end of the first season. That was fun. It was fun getting bashed in the head. The blooooood, and….*laughs* and the dancing was fun and the prom. I think that’s still my favorite episode. After that, you know, they stop distinguishing themselves, when, you know, you’ve done four years going into work, doing what scenes are on the call sheets. It’s hard to…And also, I haven’t really watched the show in two years. So I don’t really know what the end, the outcome ends up being. I just sort of know from the inside what we’re doing.

A: Is there a reason that you decide not to watch the show?

R: Um, at this point…at the beginning it was really interesting. I still watch it…there are scenes that I’m really interested about, how they came out. Or if there are directors or an interesting episode and I just kind of want to know what it looks like, what happened. But generally, um, at the beginning it was really helpful, because I hadn’t worked on camera before, and there were adjustments that I could make, that I learned about what amount I needed to do. But at this point, you know, there’s no real reason to. It’s not helpful, um, particularly in –it sort of makes me neurotic to watch myself when there’s nothing constructive that I can take from watching my performance.

A: Gotcha.

R: You know, occasionally there are scenes or there are storylines that are drastically different from what I’ve been doing, and those, those I pay attention to. But, um, you know generally it’s, it’s a lot of time. I just don’t watch TV at all. I’d rather spend an hour watching something…

A: you know, a movie or an educational special.

R: An educational special? *laughs* LOVE the educational specials.

A: *laughs* This is one of my co-worker’s favorite questions to ask—

R: Okay.

A: What have you never been asked in an interview that you always want to be asked?

R: [repeats question]

A: *rarely* been asked. You know.

R: Hmmmmm….I don’t know. I don’t think there is anything particularly. Um.

A: I was hoping to get the “how tall are you” response, because that’s what people always think to say.

R: [incredulous] that’s what they say?

A: That’s what they say! It’s weird!

R: This is a question they *want* to be asked?

A: Maybe it’s the question that they’ve never been asked, but that they like,

R: Nobody’s ever asked how tall I was.

A: See? I guess nobody asks that.

R: No. Well everybody lies about their height and their age anyway.

A: That’s true. So what have you been lying lately?

R: *I* haven’t been. But everyone—all actors do.

A: Well, that’s true.

R: Um, it’s sort of absurd, at a point. Um. I don’t think there is anything. I’m sorry. When people get excited about a question, it’s always the one I have absolutely no answer to.

A: No, it’s not even like—it’s just, I always find it like, it’s just funny, it’s like, the whole psychological thing like, what people ask is kind of what they are or whatever. I’ve just found it kind of funny because it seems like nothing really interesting comes out of it, but it’s just funny that how many people say that they want to be asked how tall they are.

R: Probably just the first thing that they can think of.

A: That’s probably true. See, we’re the ones that think up the questions, and you know, try to make them sound smart and intelligent, and

R: I mean, I like talking about art and music and books and film—and whenever a discussion ends up coming up about that kind of stuff, I’m like—it’s fun

A: What’s the best book you’ve read lately?

R: Um. My Loose Thread. By Dennis Cooper.

A: I have not heard of that.

R: It came out last year. Um, but I always say he’s my favorite writer. And it’s a brilliant book. I’m reading a lot of short stories.

A: Gotcha. I work in a Library and I um, I work in a Young Adult section. Like, in addition to this. And I’ve been reading a lot of um, they’ve had so much, especially recently, of the homosexual literature—kind of these new tacks on it, I don’t know if you’ve heard of, like, Boy Meets Boy and Geography Club—one of the good things about

R: No, what is that, is it like, teen books?

A: Yeah, they’re teen books, young adult books, but they’re really, it was kind of like awhile ago they were—like, all this teen angst and depression and sex and love and all these kind of things, and lately there’s been this boom—kind of like in television—where there have been a lot of books written that don’t deal with being gay is so much like this huge *issue*--it just kind of like takes it in different ways.

R: That’s fantastic. I didn’t know about that.

A: Yeah, this book, David Levithan wrote, called Boy Meets Boy, it’s about a world where everything is like, normal, but the homecoming queen is also the football quarterback, and his name is Infinite Darlene, and all this stuff, so, you should check it out. I mean, they’re really interesting. Sometimes books that are written for like, kids and teenagers are more interesting because they’re—they’re written for people with short attention spans. I’ll have to check out some of the things you’ve been reading too.

R: Yeah, Dennis Cooper’s a brilliant writer. Yeah, if you like—I can’t really compare him to anybody else, but he’s brilliant. He has like, a five book cycle that the first book is “Closer” which is so good. He’s sort of like a punk writer, like a William S. Burroughs. I mean, there’s really no comparison. Because he writes with an economy, like how dense the language is, it’s like, unbelievable, but at the same time it’s so simple, and precise. But, you know, some people just don’t get it. Like, I have really smart friends who I’m like, “You have to read this.” And they’re like “I don’t get it. I could write that.” Like they just don’t’…but I mean, it’s just a really fascinating. I haven’t been reading that much lately.

A: Would you ever try your hand at writing something?

R: I write, I write. But I’ve never been happy enough to let other people read what I write. I mean, I’ve never. I’ve never had the focus and the attention span to write a novel. I think I wrote like a 120 page mini-novel when I was like, 15, and that was the longest I’ve ever written and it was terrible.

A: At least it’s writing something. You know, creativity, it starts somewhere.

R: Oh yeah. Um, I write like, short plays and short movies that I shoot with my digital camera with my friends.

A: Oh, that’s cool.

R: Things like that.

A: See, you’re more than Justin.

R: Oh, absolutely.

A: Sorry, I think in bad clichés and headlines sometimes. [dramatic voice] “Randy Harrison: More than Justin”

R: Right

A: Yeah, yeah, no, sorry.

R: That’s fine.

A: Forgive my loopiness. It’s been a beautiful couple of days—I’m in Chicago, and it’s been a beautiful couple of days here.

R: God, it’s so beautiful here.

A: I think I asked you this, but I don’t remember if you answered: if you had any plans for the future, whether Queer as Folk goes on or not?

R: I’ll keep acting, you know. You know, I’ll definitely keep doing theater. I’d love to break into film. Um, you know, I’m making small films with my friends now, and after five years of doing that, it could become bigger films. Um, I’d love to start a theater company, I have a group of friends…I mean, yeah. I’ll just keep acting. I mean, I don’t know exactly what the opportunities that will present themselves to me are, I know I’m creating a lot of my own work and that’ll definitely get bigger and more exciting and maybe one day even scrounge me up some money. *laughs*

A: *laughs* You don’t earn money now?

R: Well, not on the work that I’m creating.

A: Well that’s true. [random patter, over and out]

--end--



**interviews property of Ann Finstad & Lumino Magazine.

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