A bisexual man finds consolation ― and a bit greater than he bargained for ― through an internet hookup in a unusual and colourful brief movie.
HuffPost caught a sneak peek at “Flex,” debuting on-line subsequent week as a part of the tenth annual Frameline Voices program, hosted by San Francisco’s Frameline Movie Pageant. Directed by Matt Porter, the movie follows Charles (performed by actor Charles Gould), a Los Angeles man who's feeling down after an surprising breakup together with his girlfriend (Brianna Baker) earlier than she strikes overseas. Earlier than lengthy, Charles finds himself desperate to embrace the bigger canvas of his sexuality ― which, in his case, contains his curiosity in males.
Within the clip beneath, Charles is launched to Alex (Charles Rogers), with whom he’s been chatting on a courting app. Whether or not Charles and Alex discover lasting romance stays to be seen, however issues are off to a clumsy begin.
Catch a sneak peek at “Flex” beneath.
Gould, whose performing credit embrace “The Large Sick” and the Netflix sequence “Bonding,” based mostly the “Flex” screenplay on his personal experiences as a bisexual man, having hardly ever seen himself mirrored in popular culture.
“The primary time I noticed a bisexual man on TV was a vampire on ‘True Blood,’ which, for sure, didn’t mirror my expertise,” he instructed HuffPost in an interview. “As a child, I used to be drawn to women and men, and I didn’t actually know what to make of that.”
“I simply thought I used to be bizarre as a result of I used to be turned on by Britney [Spears] and the astronaut within the ‘Oops!... I Did It Once more’ video,” he continued. “It wasn’t till I obtained older and began having intercourse that I started to know that there was such a factor as a bisexual individual and that there are a variety of different bi individuals on this planet.”
“Flex” is viewable in full right here. It will likely be featured April 14 as one among seven brief movies included within the Frameline Voices program, introduced through a grant from the Nationwide Endowment of the Arts. Gould is hopeful that the story of Charles and Alex doesn’t finish there, as he and Elliot Web page are writing and creating a tv sequence based mostly on the movie.
“[I’m a] one who’s had their id questioned their entire life,” he defined. “I might like to discover the bisexuality of Hollywood within the Nineteen Thirties, ’40s and ’50s. I feel there is a wonderful film a few bisexual actor at the moment discovering his footing and id as we flash again to a bisexual actor doing the identical within the Forties.”
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