Angela Chase and Rickie Vasquez reunited like I always knew they would
Claire Danes, who played Angela, was 13 when the show began filming and Wilson Cruz, who played Rickie, was 19. The two talked about how the experience of being cast on the show changed their lives, especially for Cruz, who wasn’t out yet:
“My agent sent me the script, and she didn’t necessarily know that I was gay. I read it, and I had to decide whether or not I wanted to disclose to her. I waited. I had made a deal with myself that I would come out if the series went. I wanted people to know that I, as a gay man — a gay boy at the time — really put my stamp of approval to what we were doing. So that’s when I told my parents, and that’s when I was kicked out.
“I lived on friends’ couches and in my car until we started filming the series. I remember we were with Winnie on our way to something, and I told her what had happened with my dad. Months later, I get this script where Rickie goes through a very similar thing. When I look back on that whole experience, I think of my fictional world and my reality converging. It was cathartic.”“So when I walked in and met with [casting director] Mary Goldberg, it felt really personal to me.
“So then I was rescued on so many levels. One, I didn’t have to go to school suddenly. I was privately tutored. Also, I had this language delivered to me by a brilliant writer. She said everything that I wanted in my heart but didn’t have the means of articulating.”As someone who has lived a life based on the philosophies that a pierced nose is not a personality and yourself is not a definite thing, like a toaster or something, hard same.
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