At long last, the movie about the murdered gay rights hero is going into production. Gus Van Sant is directing. Years ago, Robin Williams was supposed to play the lead role. I guess he's grown too old to play Harvey. Now, they've cast Sean Penn.
I can't really picture Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, but he's a good actor, so I guess he'll pull it off. I thought he might be too young for the role, but he's 47, just one year shy of how old Milk was when he was killed. I just hope he doesn't play the role as Sam of I am Sam. Or worse yet, as Jeff Spicoli.
"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, is totally bogus!"Also rumored to be cast in the film was Sexiest Man Alive, Matt Damon. So, I had fantasies that I'd be cast as Matt's love interest and we'd get to film a steamy sex scene. But alas, he was all set to play the murderous Dan White, so all hopes of steam sex scenes were quickly extinguished. And now I just read that Damon pulled out, er, prematurely, because of a scheduling conflict. He swore that that had never happened to him before.
They never did tell us anything about what roles they were casting, so we can't feel bad that we didn't make it to the callbacks. Maybe they were looking for massive bears or brutal looking leather men. Or gym bunnies. Or nelly queens. Or someone with a cleft chin.
They may call us back to be extras. It'd be great to be a part of the production in some way. You take the opportunity to be a part of something important and historic, right? Like if I'd been offered a chance to play a sheep in Brokeback Mountain, I'd have done it, even if wasn't a bleating part.
