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The play itself was over half a year
but I followed the boys' lives for a lot longer,
with long breaks in between,
but possibly up to
two-and-a-half, three years in the end. Lots of things happened in their life
over those three years, of course
they...
they grew older, from teenagers to young adults
but I, I left all that out, it's a very minimal story,
and that was because the real...
the real thing that was about, for my main character was
daring to go out and and meet love
which was something he didn't dare
but he wasn't conscious about it yet. You just have all these feelings, so it's very
difficult for him to to put that into words and...
and...
it was difficult for him sometimes to be filmed as well because he was so much in
a process
but in the end, I think, it gave him some strength
from the play and from his... the person playing with him. He got his first kiss
on stage.
I think it is important to say that, with Shakespeare's Romeo & Julius
it's...
for him, doing the play, he realized that
it's about this big big love
and if you can't feel that
there's really not much left
then there's just the ordinary
and I think he got scared of that
if he never goes there, what is left then in life.
I can say that I was really really surprised
to come here
because in Copenhagen, Denmark
where I come from
we do have a gay and lesbian
film festival
and
and I've not often gone there
because I felt maybe it was too focused only on that
and I think here
it feels really nice because it feels really open
that's a gay village, but there's also a gender festival, it feels like it's...
a broader look
on what we are and why we are what we are, it's not put so much in a box
and I really like that, about this place.