DARREN CRISS ON HOMOPHOBIA IN ‘THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE’
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Chicago attracts true-crime TV, but with limits
It seems like every week there is a new TV special about a grisly crime that occurred in the Chicago area.
The 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Stacy Peterson recently sparked an onslaught of programming about her husband, former Bolingbrook police sergeant and convicted killer Drew Peterson, who is the sole suspect in Stacy’s disappearance. “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” which aired earlier this year, explored Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 cross-country killing spree that included a stop in Chicago.
[…] Over at FX, a January episode of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” imagined how Cunanan killed Chicago real estate tycoon Lee Miglin at his Gold Coast home weeks before killing Versace in July 1997.
Mike Farrell, who played Miglin, and Darren Criss, who played Cunanan, filmed last year outside a Lincoln Park house that doubled as the Miglin home. Brad Simpson, an executive producer, said the scenes of Cunanan and Miglin inside the fictional Miglin home were actually filmed in Los Angeles.
“We re-created the Miglin’s brownstone interior by dividing a home in Los Angeles with false walls,” Simpson wrote in an email. “For the exteriors our cast and crew flew to Chicago and shot on streets that had the same look and feel of the street the Miglins lived on. The particular feel and look of brownstones in Chicago are not present in LA.”
Source | 28 May 2018
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Ricky Martin was TURNED ON in sex scenes for Versace biopic
He revealed his regret for not coming out in an interview with American talk show host Barbara Walters in 2000.
But Ricky Martin wasn’t holding anything back after claiming he got ‘excited’ while shooting a steamy scene for new series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
‘There was a beautiful model next to me in bed and so I did some method acting,’ he told The Sun Herald, before adding: ‘I got a little bit excited.’
‘The exhibitionist [in me] was acting up because there was 40 people running cameras. I used to always ask, “How do actors do it?” But now I know how they do it.’
With a cheeky chuckle, the 46-year-old hunk added: ‘It was amazing!’
In his first lead acting role, the former Voice Australia coach stars as the late designer’s boyfriend Antonio D’Amico in the glossy biopic focused on Gianni Versace’s shocking murder in 1997.
Alongside Edgar Ramirez, Darren Criss and Penelope Cruz – who has won rave reviews for her portrayal of Gianni’s fashion maven sister, Donatella – Ricky believes the Ryan Murphy penned saga puts the spotlight on homophobia.
Married to artist Jwan Yosef, the father-of-two said it was so important to highlight the struggles the LGBTQI community face.
‘To be able to talk about homophobia, even still today, is very important!’
Officially coming out in 2010, the Livin’ la Vida Loca singer revealed his regret at not disclosing his sexuality during an interview with US talk show host, Barbara Walters in 2000.
‘Why didn’t I say yes back then?’ he reflected during a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
The singer admitted he should have been honest and open after being grilled about the topic for years.
Now completely in charge of his personal life, Ricky claimed: ‘I believe that everybody should just say yes. If you are, say yes.’
The star tied the knot with Yosef in 2017. The couple raise nine year-old twin boys, Matteo and Valentino.
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Darren Criss was concerned about playing serial killer Andrew Cunanan
Darren Criss first rose to fame as gay teenager Blaine Anderson on musical series Glee. Since the show finished in 2015, Criss has tried his hand at Broadway – appearing in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in the same year – as well as releasing music alongside his brother Chuck with their project Computer Games. Now, the 31-year-old has stepped into the shoes of Andrew Cunanan, the serial killer responsible for gunning down legendary fashion designer Gianni Versace in 1997, for the new nine-episode series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Criss sat down with WHO whilst in Australia to chat all things Versace, his future plans and his upcoming tour with former Glee co-star Lea Michele.
WHO: How much did you know about Andrew Cunanan’s role in Versace death?
About as much as I think most people [knew] unless you were working in fashion in the ‘90s or living in Miami. I knew that he was shot and I vaguely remember that he was shot by someone who was half Filipino, that was about it, I only would have clocked that in because I’m half Filipino but other than that, I didn’t know a whole lot so like most people when you start to realise that he had a much larger history, not only personally but as far as how many more homicides there were, you just go ‘Oh my god how did I not know about this?’ and then the answer to that question is in the show, like ‘How did we not know about this?’ well X, Y and Z.
WHO: Did you feel any pressure in how you represented Andrew in the series?
I didn’t feel any more pressure than I feel for any role, which is to say that I treat all roles with the same sort of TLC, I’m really making sure that everyone’s taken care of. Now Andrew’s tricky because he was a real person and so I think there was less pressure and more… there was a great deal of concern that I had in that this was a real person that destroyed the lives of people who are still very much alive 20 years later and in the immediate aftermath of everything that happened in 1997, the family and friends of these people were bombarded with media.
Darren Criss was concerned about playing serial killer Andrew Cunanan
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