With its debut on Saturday, Feb. 15, The Thing About Harry becomes the first queer rom-com in TV movie history. Star Jake Borelli and writer-director Peter Paige explain why that matters.
As Borelli pointed out, it's Vernoff who he credits with the newfound platform he's been given, as she created hischaracter Levi Schmidt and worked with him on the character's coming out as gay in the show's 15th season, a move that prompted the actor to come out of the closet professionally, himself.
"We've all got to remember that I am an audience member myself and, as a queer person growing up, I just yearned for movies and television shows like this," he told us."I would dig through the ground to try to find a role that I could relate to in the media that was out when I was growing up and it was very difficult.
That the film is airing on Freeform, a network Paige has had a solid working relationship with since pitching themback in 2012 when it was still going by the name ABC Family, is not lost on either the film's director or its star.
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