Jake Borelli and Peter Paige: The Thing About Harry

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

After making a name for himself starring as Emmett in the groundbreaking television series, Queer As Folk, Peter Paige moved his talents behind the camera. Two of the series he co-created, The Fosters and Good Trouble, both on Freeform, set the gold standard for queer and trans representation on TV.

With The Thing About Harry, Paige continues that winning streak. On top of writing, directing, and executive producing the new film, Paige also plays the roommate of Jake Borelli (Grey's Anatomy), supplying him with the "earnest, loving, pep-talk" he needs to ultimately make sure the movie has a happy ending. Peter, as well as Jake, and co-star Niko Terho, join us to talk about the groundbreaking film, the network’s response to its steamy sex scene, and how Peter convinced Grey’s Anatomy to write Jake off the show for three weeks in order to shoot The Thing About Harry.

LGBTQ&A is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm just wild about Harry.
0:07.6	Harry's wild about me.
0:11.2	Hey, it's Jeffrey Masters, and you're listening to an extra special bonus episode
0:16.0	in honor of Valentine's Day.
0:19.1	Now, I don't know if it's just because our world is crazy and it's too much
0:24.3	all the time, or if it's because I'm single, as I like to remind you. But lately, I've been making
0:30.1	a concerted effort to seek out happy queer content. And that's not shade to any of these
0:37.0	darker, more serious movies and books that I very much
0:39.6	love.
0:40.3	But as a consumer, I also want to see queer people have happy endings.
0:45.2	And personally, I am just a little bit delighted by seeing us in romantic comedies.
0:51.5	So today we're dedicating an episode to Freeform and Hulu's new Valentine's Day
0:55.9	rom-com. It's called The Thing About Harry. We only get a good rom-com with queer characters
1:02.0	about every five or six years. So when we do get a good one, I think we should celebrate it.
1:08.4	The thing about Harry stars Nico Terho and Jake Borrelli, Jake, you know,
1:12.9	from Grey's Anatomy. You're also going to hear from Peter Page, who is famous for playing
1:17.8	Emmett and queer as folk. Now, this was all recorded live on stage at the very first public screening
1:24.3	of the film. Peter Page wrote, directed, and executive produced it, and explains
1:29.4	why it's vital to show a world
1:31.3	on screen where the character's sexuality
1:33.4	isn't the issue.
1:35.2	To create a movie that, as I said before, is just
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