20: Russell T Davies

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

One of Britains most prolific screenwriters and television producers Russell T Davies will be best known to some as the creator of the seminal LGBT series 'Queer as Folk', others will know him best as the writer, show runner and executive producer of Dr Who.

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0:28.2	Eligibility criteria apply. I spoke to the writer Russell T Davis in February in very much a pre-lockdown world. We started off talking about queer as
0:46.0	folk. That seminal series was 20 years ago and he noted the change in crew between
0:51.5	that experience and his new series Boys.
0:54.3	Yes it's true.
0:59.3	Queer's folks 20 years ago and just done a new gay one now for channel for the difference in the crew was phenomenal.
1:05.6	It's like the gay friendliness of a crew is an astonishingly different.
1:09.6	When you were filming Queersfolk, did you find... It just felt very, very straight.
1:15.0	Awkward.
1:16.0	And maybe I was over aware of that.
1:17.0	And no one was rude to me.
1:18.0	There was an hedge sometimes, though, you felt like you were in a straight world.
1:21.0	You were in a straight world.
1:22.0	It was completely
1:22.9	straight. And now, I'm not saying they're all completely gay on this in the show. But it's just a friendlier world. I mean,
1:28.8	we're not working in a factory or in a shop where it might not be, drama which is gay-friendly full stop but it was different
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