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Why Queer as Folk’s Hal Sparks insisted character be face-to-face with partner during sex
The US version of Queer as Folk has been off the air for 10 years now but Hal Sparks is still getting questions about his five-year run on the show as Michael Novotny.
One of the most common question is about the steamy sex scenes he shared with his character’s professor husband Ben Bruckner who was played by the openly gay Robert Gant.
Sparks, an actor and stand-up comic who is straight, was recently asked if he was uncomfortable while filming the scenes.
‘It didn’t bother me at all that I was shooting love scenes with another man,’ he says in a recent YouTube video. ‘It was right for the character, it made sense for the story.’
Sparks adds: ‘The actual way Michael has sex with his partners was germane to who he is as a person – namely facing (his partner) which was a big aspect of it. Bobby Gant and I had discussions with executives about the fact that I believe that Michael has sex face to face because he represents the loving connection and that’s important to me to make sure people knew they were in love.’
The series about the lives and loves of a group of gay friends living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania also starred Gale Harold, Michelle Clunie, Randy Harrison, Thea Gill, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell and Sharon Gless, among others.
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