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Like you were saying, you knew it was going to be painful to watch. Of his whole canon of work, I feel like this is one that will stand out.
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This piece is, I think, a very, very, very important piece for Russell. And also for Russell, it’s such an important piece to Russell. And I really wanted to make that my mission. We knew we were representing those people. We’ve got to go there for the people who we lost, for all those people, those poor lives that were cut short. It’s really difficult because you’ve got to go there. Playing a character that has to contemplate death, it’s difficult. Oh gosh, it’s such a challenge, those scenes were some of the most challenging things that I’ve ever faced as an actor. What’s is like having to play those scenes and being given that kind of material to work with? Let’s talk about your It’s a Sin character, Colin. It’s really cool and it’s something to celebrate.Ĭallum Scott Howells in It’s a Sin. Considering when you look at history, how difficult it’s been for so many people and so many people have really gone through painful times in regards to their sexuality. It’s something that’s really beautiful and I actually feel really proud to be part of a generation that promotes that just to be like, ‘I love who I love,’ and that’s just beautiful. It’s an amazing thing that people can just be like, ‘I’m this,’ ‘I’m that,’ and they can just come up and be who they are. It’s refreshing to see a new generation now being able to be who they are.Ĭompletely. But for me it was kind of: ‘It is what it is.’ I wouldn’t like to speak for anyone else on that matter. And that’s something I’ve always been happy to say to people. Was being an out actor always something you were going to do? It’s interesting, because I think it’s something to be celebrated in this show. In terms of Russell’s comments recently, that’s what the casting process was on this particular production. Was that something that you had considered before? There’s been discussion about the cast of It’s a Sin all being out. They want to eradicate new HIV infections by 2030 and the way to do that is to get tested and that’s a really important conversation we need to be having. HIV testing, that’s a really important conversation. When sex education gets introduced, I think it needs to be part of that curriculum. It needs to be talked about at young ages. There’s the whole sex education thing but I think the actual show, the Netflix show Sex Education, has done way more for young people than the national curriculum has. It’s awful – awful – that we don’t have these conversations in school. I remember that being a very eye-opening conversation.
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I remember the first conversation I ever had about AIDS and HIV was to my cousin Elliott. You know what? Actually, it wasn’t in any of my education growing up, which is shocking. How much of the source material for It’s a Sin and the legacy of HIV and AIDS were you aware of? It was really, really useful to watch that stuff. Queer as Folk wasn’t something that I was exposed to growing up and I’m gutted because it was f**king brilliant television and I loved it. Well, actually, I guess it’s worth saying that I actually watched A Very English Scandal and Years and Years at the time they were transmitted, bear in mind I’d seen those as well, but then I went back and watched Queer as Folk. I watched Queer as Folk first, and then I watched Cucumber. I told Russell about that.ĭid you then go back and visit his other work? “The Empty Child”, which is the child with the gas mask, and he’s like, “I want my mummy”, I just remember being s**t scared when I was really young watching that. I was obsessed with it for such a long time. Queer as Folk just missed me because I was born in 1999.ĭoctor Who is the show that introduced me to Russell’s work. Were you aware of Russell T Davies‘ work before? She was so good to me and my school – she gave me head boy! So it was really, really special. It was mad because it was my old head of sixth form’s office. So it felt really sort of beautiful to find out in that room. I taped for it because I was doing a play so I couldn’t go and meet for it, then I got recalled and then I got the offer the next day when I was back visiting my old comprehensive school. It was something that was vitally important. So they sent it to me, I read the first three episodes and I just fell in love with the whole show. The terms throughout my training were that I wouldn’t go up for something unless it was life-changing, something that would be really, really career starting, all that kind of stuff. Callum Scott Howells: I was at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, my agent called me and told me about it.