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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Queer as Folk w/ Peter Paige (Emmett) & Scott Lowell (Ted)!

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jess welcomes TWO of the stars of the groundbreaking Showtime series Queer as Folk: Peter Paige & Scott Lowell (aka: Emmett Honeycutt & Ted Schmidt)!! We discuss the infamous Larry King interview where they were grilled on their sexuality, how QAF changed the way sex & sexuality was depicted on cable, why The L Word was able to break into the mainstream zeitgeist in a way QAF was unable to, the Brian Kinney/Gale Harold enigma, lack of diversity on the show, how Pose’s Billy Porter was up for the role of Emmett, how Peter Paige was nearly cast as Jack on Will & Grace, and a lot more!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives, and truly welcome to the moment where Queer's

0:19.4

Folk is finally going to get its due.

0:22.1

So everyone understands Queer's Folk was groundbreaking because it was the first drama

0:27.1

on television to feature all gay characters.

0:30.2

It was the number one showtime series for years and forever changed the way sexuality

0:35.2

was portrayed on cable.

0:37.0

Eileen Chacon, who later created the L word, fully credits Queer's Folk for paving the

0:41.8

way for the L word to get made at all.

0:44.8

Please welcome Emmet Honeycutt and Ted Schmidt, also known as Peter Page and Scott Lowell.

0:53.2

Thank you so much for doing this.

0:55.2

I'm so excited to see both of you guys and to be doing this as a joint experience.

1:00.6

You guys are still best friends all of these years later.

1:05.4

Where are each of you guys?

1:07.0

Sadly, very far apart from one another right now.

1:10.0

It's true.

1:11.0

Scotty moves to New York a few years ago to kind of be closer to his mom, who's in Connecticut.

1:17.7

And I missed the hell out of them out here in sunny LA.

1:21.6

You may be far away, but you're always close to my heart school.

1:25.1

And are you guys still tight with the rest of the cast?

1:29.7

For the most part, yeah.

1:31.5

Yeah, we also stay pretty well connected.

1:32.9

We see each other a few times a year and we still do charity events together and things

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