Интервью Райана Скотта Грина после того, как его утвердили на роль в Квирах.
Даты нигде нет, но судя по всему, год 2004 или начало 2005.

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IT PAYS TO PLAY GAY
Frontiers
By Lydia Marcus

Текст на английском

IT PAYS TO PLAY GAY
Frontiers
By Lydia Marcus
ItPaysToPlayGay
Up-and-Coming Actor Ryan Scott Greene Will Soon Be Heating Up the Already Racy Queer As Folk

You probably missed him in his past roles on Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye, La Femme Nikita, or that three minute blink-or-you’ll-miss-it scene on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, but when Ryan Scott Greene shows up on Queer as Folk (beginning with the June 19 episode) looking to unseat resident stud Brian (Gale Harold) from his pedestal, you’ll know this 31-year-old, blond haired, blue-eyed actor from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has arrived.
Greene holds a double degree — a bachelor of arts in literature and a bachelor of science in psychology — and had originally planned to pursue careers either in journalism or business. But just a week before he graduated college, Greene caught the acting bug after working as an extra on the Sandra Bullock and Dennis Leary 1996 bomb, Two If By Sea. He did a two-year modeling stint for mostly garden-variety catalogs for Sears and JC Penney in Canada, then began to pursue acting full-time.
I recently caught up with Greene over the phone from his L.A. home, and he shared why he wanted to become an actor, described his role on Queer as Folk — and the reality of shooting those meaty sex scenes we all love to watch — and shared his passion for volunteering for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
Lydia Marcus: Why was your extra work on Two If By Sea a career epiphany?
Ryan Scott Greene: What it did do was, it gave me a really good sense as to what this machine was and I could be in that machine every day if I so desired. They fed me. If I was cold they gave me a jacket. If I was warm they took it away from me. It was not only a great experience, but I saw things that amazed me; it was wonderful, and by wonderful I mean it made me wonder. And I thought, I could do this every day. So I started taking steps to do that … starting as a model, and getting out of Halifax basically because only so much can take place in that small of a community.
Queer as Folk is really your breakthrough role.
Yeah, that’s exactly right. Queer as Folk is definitely the pinnacle at this point.
What is the storyline you’re part of?
At first when I come in … I’m just something new and not really causing any trouble, but people tend to get a little jealous, things start to get a little out of hand, and through various actions, people learn lessons that they probably had coming to them [for] some time.
Sounds like you’re a catalyst.
Yes, precisely. I start the ball rolling for a couple of lessons learned.
Queer as Folk is not just a show; it’s really a cultural phenomenon. Did you think about any of that going in?
Yeah, I did do my research, made sure that I understood, as you say, the phenomenon–the cultural and societal, what it meant to people. I did talk to a lot of friends of mine, who either just watch the show because they enjoy it, or are gay and watch [it]. I actually had a couple people who don’t like the show, don’t watch the show, but live in the gay community and made sure I understood how they look at it … I wanted to know how the show affected other people.
I’m sure you’ll have a lot more gay fans for sure.
(Laughs) And that’s not a bad thing at all.
I’m assuming you’re straight from what you’ve been saying.
I gave it away. I am straight.
ItPaysToPlayGay2I’m also assuming you had plenty of sex scenes to keep you busy on the set.
Very interesting question. The first question I get from most people [who I tell I did the show] is “Did you have to kiss any guys?”
Actually, that doesn’t surprise me. A lot goes on in Queer as Folk that doesn’t involve kissing.
Exactly. I was just going to say. I’m like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: I won’t kiss you, but I’ll do everything [else]. There’s one episode of the four that everything kind of comes visually to a head, sort of, pardon the pun … We get involved in a bit of a situation and … there is a montage, if you will, of simulated sex acts.
You were getting busy with a lot of different people is what you’re saying.
(Laughs) I’ll put it to you this way: I went to set one day to shoot a lot of simulated sex.
What was that like?
I tell this to people because it amazes [people] and it still does to this day [The Queer as Folk team]–they’re incredibly good, kind, professional to the actors … if there’s anything that involves any kind of off-the-cuff behavior–whether you’re just in a room where there’s sex going on or actual sex acts–there’s a meeting. Production takes a little break, the producers, the actors involved, and the director all go into a room, they have a very lengthy or incredibly short discussion, depending on the comfort levels of everybody, and the entire scene is blocked out. Everyone knows what’s going to be shot. You’ll know what you need to be responsible for and it just puts everyone at a real level of ease and [comfort] and any questions get answered. It was different in the sense that I’ve never been on-camera doing anything like that prior.
Had you ever even done a sex scene with a woman?
No, I’ve never been involved in anything that severe–not even close. So it was different, but there was always a level of comfort and it was always OK.
It’s good to know that they discuss the shooting of sex scenes in such detail with the actors.
Yeah, it gave me a real sense [of the scene] because I knew it was coming. Again, pardon the pun.
You’re not pardoning these puns…
(Laughs) I’m putting them in there. I knew my storyline, and I knew where it was going and so I knew that this day was coming and so I guess I had some time to prepare for it as well.
You mean by going to the gym?
Yes, exactly. People ask, “Oh, what did you do when you found out you got the job?” I was like, “I went to the gym and I put up a cot and I stayed there.”
This is going to be the most people have ever seen of your work. That’s got to be exciting.
It’s amazing. It’s funny, because my birthday is actually June 25, and I was thinking about having a multi-”Queer as Folk” viewing/birthday/AIDS Project Los Angeles party. I’m involved with APLA. I run their marathons.
How did you get involved with APLA?
It’s the strangest thing. I was just sitting in a doctor’s office one day–standard, routine kind of thing–and there was a poster for one of the marathons, and I had been a runner in college, and I said, “You know what? A marathon–that’s kind of the pinnacle of running. I should give it a go.” … I started in with the training, I guess a couple of months went by, but I started to really, really enjoy the people I was meeting and the people who worked and volunteered at APLA, and I just started making friends with them. And after the experience of (running in) Honolulu, I came back in the new year and [I got in touch with them] … so I’m now what they call an ambassador; I volunteer with them and I go around and I help them recruit people to do more marathons and [participate in them myself] and support their efforts.
Have you been personally affected by HIV/AIDS?
Very, very little. It was more of the two and three degrees of separation, but enough knowledge to make it a worthwhile cause to me. And then, oddly enough, once people found out what I was attempting to do, I realized there was much more around me … in fact, I was working in a restaurant at the time [as a waiter] … and a customer called me over [and] said, “So, you’re running the marathon. Well that’s great. What do you think?” And I said, “Oh, it’s good, I’m getting in shape and a free trip to Hawaii.” And he says, “Well, let me show you something,” and he pulls out a like little film canister and he shakes it out and there’s four, five, maybe even six pills in his hand. And he said, “Do you know what these are?” And I said, “I don’t know, vitamins?” He said, “These are the only thing that’s been keeping me alive for the last 14 years, and the only reason I have it is because of people like you,” and I was like, “Oh, my God.” … I remember going to training the very next day and just standing there with Jeff Unger, who was the program rep at the time, and just [saying], “Jeff, it’s all different; it’s all changed.” I said to him, “I know that you knew that I was going to figure it out eventually, but it was yesterday.” He said, “Well, good for you.” And from that point on, it’s just been where a lot of my free time and heart goes.

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