Nicholas hoult gay
Hoult… who goes there?
"Oh no. Interview, uh oh. I always panic about these things." Nicholas Hoult does look genuinely apprehensive, which is annoying because he's been perfectly at ease until now. He arrived promptly at the west London studio where he's to be photographed at 9am on this December Monday morning, introducing himself very politely to everyone. He swapped jeans and hooded top for a dapper suit by Tom Ford, the fashion designer whose directorial debut, A Single Man, stars Hoult alongside Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, then chatted away with the make-up artist about his newly shorn head, a crop to cut out hair extensions for his role in upcoming CGI blockbuster Clash of the Titans. But now he's staring at me like a rabbit in the headlights, albeit one that's 6ft 3in and wearing an expensive brocade jacket.
I utter reassuring things, but he looks unconvinced. Why do interviews craft him panic? He frowns and seems to think hard. "Dunno," he finally offers, unhelpfully, but at least he sits down. Unfortunately we're on a
In Tom Ford&#;s A Solo Man, year-old British player Nicholas Hoult plays the queer student who gets Colin Firth&#;s heart and libido racing again—and certainly some of the audience&#;s.
Best known stateside as the child star of Hugh Grant flick, About a Boy, Hoult went on to play Richard E. Grant&#;s adolescent adjust ego in &#;s Wah-Wah, seductive teen Tony in BBC TV hit Skins, and a &#;useless&#; soldier in the spring spectacle, Clash of the Titans.
In A Single Guy, he portrays Kenny, a curious student who pursues, bonds and skinny-dips with George, his suicidal professor. Although not gay off-screen—despite his tabloid-stirring admission of an abusive homosexual bond we&#;ll address below—Hoult has played queer three times to date (including a London play, New Boy), and reunited with Ford for November&#;s OUT Magazine cover story/photo shoot.
Lawrence Ferber: What is Kenny&#;s design, really, when he pursues George? Sex, love—a skinny dip?
Nicholas Hoult: I don&#;t think he does possess a plan. That&#;s the thing about Kenny—he&#;s one of those people who are all ab
Let’s rewind to Obama was still brand-new , Tumblr was summit culture, and Tom Ford—yes, that Tom Ford—gave the gays a film that looked like a cologne ad and felt like a love let-ter to queer grief: A Single Man.
Ford, who is openly homosexual and had just transitioned from fashion deity to filmmaker, poured personal exposure and polished aesthetics into his directorial debut. And it showed.
Colin Firth gave us a masterclass in elegant sorrow as George, a gay English professor quietly crumbling under the weight of losing his match, Jim. Firth, who is straight but a longtime Queer ally, portrayed George with such dignity and tenderness that he earned an Oscar nomination—and the enduring love of queer audiences.
But it was Nicholas Hoult, all bleach-blond and barefoot, who wandered in and lit a tiny flame in the film’s cold, stylish gloom. Though not queer himself, Hoult gave us a act that was so gently magnetic, it still makes us sigh 15 years later.
In A Unpartnered Man, Kenny (played by Hoult) is a young college student who takes a romantic interest in George. His presen
But at least Tony got to work out in his underwear and touch Maxxie (Mitch Hewer).
In A Single Man (), based on the Christopher Isherwood novel about a middle-aged college professor (Colin Firth) trying to adjust to the sudden death of his partner, Nick plays Kenny, the student who tries to involve him in a relationship again.
He also played a gay character in New Boy on the London stage.
Since then, Nick has played a character of unspecified sexual identity in Clash of the Titans and heterosexuals in The X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Slayer, and Warm Bodies. The latter is particularly heteros