The other night, I was walking out of the reception for "Love and Other Disasters" when I saw Darryl Stephens, star of "Noah's Arc," "Boy Culture," "Not Just Another Gay Movie" and more. I said: "Did you see the Matthew Rhys movie?" He said, "No, I'm here to see "Butch Jaime."
Uh, OK. I mean, we are encouraged as festival goers to see all types of films but I wondered why Darryl was seeing a lesbian-themed movie when there were so many movies with so many men and so little time to see them all. Then yesterday, I'm flipping through the Outfest program, I saw that Darryl is one of the film jurors who will decide which film wins what at tomorrow night's awards gala.
I'm such a detective..
Anywho, last week at the Outfest opening night, Darryl and I gabbed it up a bit so I will share that with you now. Darryl told me he had just returned from North Carolina where he had been for four months working on the film "Bolgen" about jazz musician Buddy Bolgen. Darryl plays a band member in Bolgen's band.
"It's a pretty cool film actually, independently produced but pretty big budget. It's gonna be a huge film."
I asked him what the status of the "Noah's Arc" movie is. The Logo show was not renewed for a third season but a feature film has reportedly been in the works.
"It's happening next month," he said. "I haven't read the script yet but hopefully, it'll be great."
I asked him if Jensen Atwood, who plays his ex-lover Wade, is going to be on the film. I had spoken to Jensen only moments earlier and he had only discussed his new role on here! TV's gothic soap "Dante's Cove."
"Oh, he's in it, but he's very 'Dante's Cove' right now," Darryl said, laughing.
But fans are thinking about it a lot.
"I have a MySpace page so I hear from people about it every day," Darryl said. "Lots of people. I'll be happy to make them happy with the movie."