What oldies are saying about gay marriage

BRUCE LABRUCE ON OLDIES

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the best fashion and art news from Paris and internationally. I was looking to make a different kind of movie. Something a little more accessible, maybe, something that could be seen by a wider audience. Also, quite often my films have to do with people with unusual sexual preferences or fetishes.

And the idea is to show that even though they have this strange fetish, they can still be romantic and emotional characters. So it was the combination of treating a subject i would normally treat, but in a completely different way, in a more romantic or mainstream kind of way.

Were you nervous about approaching such a taboo subject? Obviously not! I take it seriously and i try to make my films consistent with my political beliefs and my philosophy of homosexuality, which is about being different and expressing your difference.

You treated what happens to lake pier-gabriel lajoie in a wonderful way. Did it seem important to you to treat this project with more tenderness and romance than your previous movies? A lot of my films have romance. But i also think the way that the sexuality of old people is portrayed in pop culture is what oldies are saying about gay marriage romantic in any way.

To do it in a romantic way and make it believable was part of the strategy of the movie: to show that it can exist and that old people have the same impulses as young people. How did you find pier-gabriel lajoie? Lake was supposed to be 18, so i definitely wanted an actor around that age.

I took a completely different approach to this film and used a different method. So i worked with casting agencies for the first time ever. We looked at 25 people for both roles: lake and peabody. And Pier-Gabriel was just the guy I had in mind for the role! He was young, very good looking and, in a sense, unexperienced.

He was also very open. He tried hard to understand why this boy might have this sexuality. You can feel that he was very much into the character. But after two or three days, I saw that they had really hit it off as people and as friends, even off camera. I think Pier-Gabriel learned a lot from Walter.

Walter is a famous stage actor in Canada. I think Pier-Gabriel really respected him. In the film, Lake discovers not only his homosexuality — already very difficult in itself — but also his desire, his fetish for older people, which makes it even harder for him.

But once he meets Mr. Peabody, a kind of serenity seems to settle in….