The pass gay film
The love that still won't speak its name on Britain's football pitches: The Pass is a timely film on gay players
The Pass
Verdict: A game of three halves
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With more reports every day about paedophile football coaches, here’s a timely film about another vexed issue in the game – the reluctance of gay footballers to announce their sexuality.
That some top players are gay is hardly in doubt, but they have chosen to stay firmly in the closet, understandably believing that the culture of the game, and of course the fans, are not ready to verb them.
This dispiriting express of affairs is explored by The Pass.
The Pass: Brian Viner thought Arinze Kene, left, and Russell Tovey, right, delivered great performances in the Pass
It begins in a Bucharest hotel in Jason (Russell Tovey, superb) and Ade (Arinze Kene, also terrific) are new players and superb friends, rooming together before a Champions League game.
Eventually, their banter and horseplay cannot conceal their mutual physical attraction. They kiss.
We then skip forward five years to another hotel ro
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The film is based on the John Donnelly play which debuted at the Royal Court Theatre.
Three of the main actors from the stage production, Tovey, Mirallegro and Lisa McGrillis reprise their roles on the adj screen.
Tovey plays Premier League Footballer Jason and the film follows his life over three nights across ten years as he deals with the consequences of his feelings for felolow footie player Ade (Arinze Kene).
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Russell Tovey in The PassThe film tackles the ever-taboo subject of homosexuality in the UK's biggest sport.
After a youthful indiscretion together, Jason and Ade find they can not evade the memories and repercussions of that one fateful noun as Jason becomes a huge star.
Fame and fortune, however, force him to hide the one thing that could ever make him truly happy.
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Russell Tovey and Arinze Kene in The PassTovey, himself, is openly gay.
The actor has played gay roles in on stage and television
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Sure, we know everybody’s talking about the Emmy nominations right now, but they aren’t the only TV awards in town.
On July 8, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced the winners of its 17th Dorian TV Awards.
With more than critics, journalists, and media icons making up its membership, GALECA is the second largest entertainment journalists&#; group in the world, and they present their Dorian Awards – named in honor of Oscar Wilde, the celebrated queer writer who penned “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and who serves as something like the group’s patron saint – to honor the best in film, television, and theater at separate times during each year. Frequently, many Dorian nominees and winners presage similar honors from the more mainstream awards bodies, reminding the world that the informed LGBTQ perspective on all things entertainment definitely matters; at the identical time, however, the Dorians also contain several queer-centric categories that are unique to them, providing an opportunity to amplify the contact of mor
Russell Tovey gives a knockout performance as a closeted soccer player in this absorbing screen adaptation of John Donnelly&#;s play.
&#;The Pass&#; has the distinction of being the first British film to devote itself entirely to the subject of homosexuality in Premiere League Football. It&#;s a subject crying out to be tackled, (no pun intended), but this depressingly one note treatment isn&#;t the way to do it. It&#;s based on a play, first performed at the Royal Court a couple of years back, and it shows. Divided into 3 short acts over a ten year period, it&#;s the story of Jason, a deeply closeted footballer who tries to hide his homosexuality by marrying, having children and, when the rumors get too much, having a sleazy sex- tape made with a dancer, all the while pinning for Ade, his black footballer buddy who had the courage to pack it in and come out of the closet.
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