“I was playing someone who was real, someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s lover. “It’s always been much more about the story than it is about us or our performances or our journey through it. Getting the story right, says Corr, was his biggest concern. There was A Flock Of Seagulls for the ‘80s and a long, curled perm down to my shoulders for the ‘70s.” “Often we would know what era we were playing by the wig we put on. Some days we’d be playing 17-year-olds in the morning, 24-year-olds after lunch and 30 in the afternoon. The filmmakers chose not to cast younger actors in the pivotal scenes in which Conigrave and Caleo, both students at Melbourne’s Xavier College, fall in love because they felt the transition might be jarring.Ĭorr says that for him, hair and make-up was a crucial part of his process of dropping a decade, although the school uniform certainly helped.
Ryan Corr’s character Timothy Conigrave fell in love with the boy with beautiful eyelashes - Craig Stott, who plays John Caleo in a scene from new movie Holding The ManĬorr hopes the film will go some way in rectifying what he sees as Australia’s “backwardness” in such areas - and particularly on the issue of gay marriage.īut him, playing a 17-year-old, was more of a stretch.
