Jonathan Groff Does a Wife-Beater Right

The cutie-pie actor -- who was delightful in the film adaptation of David Sedaris "C.O.G." -- talks about his new HBO show, "Looking," in Out magazine:

When the hit HBO series Girls hit the scene last year, it became an almost-instant hit. Following that show’s success, it seemed logical that someone would try their hand at a gay version of Girls. It looks like that person might be Andrew Haigh, the little-known director of the critically acclaimed 2011 gay indie-romance film Weekend. HBO ordered eight episodes of Haigh’s dramedy Looking about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco and starring Jonathan Groff, Frankie Alvarez, and Murray Bartlett. Haigh and Groff spoke with writer Christopher Glazek for the February 2014 OUT magazine cover story.

Looking follows three gay friends living in the Mission-Castro district of San Francisco as they navigate relationships, careers, and friendships. None is an heir, a genius, or a supermodel. Each has a lot of feelings. They aren’t trying to date celebrities or become the voices of their generation. “Our show is less about people at the beginning in their 20s figuring out who they are,” Groff says, “and more about people stepping into their lives in their 30s and 40s and finding their place in the world.”

From Haigh’s perspective, he didn’t want “hyper-successful” characters. “All the characters are from different socioeconomic backgrounds, different ethnicities – that can happen a lot more readily in the gay community,” says Haigh. “What you connect to initially is your sexuality, not your age or where you’ve been to school.” The characters in Looking, he says, are “not aspiring to be rich. They’re not aspiring to have lots of sex. They’re aspiring to have happier lives, more fulfilled lives.”

Haigh insists he wanted to create a story about his characters’ “journeys.” “I’m not interested in angry, bad people. I like stories about nice people. They get left out sometimes,” he says. “It’s always hared when you make a show about gay people because you just cannot – no matter how hard you try – represent every gay person in the world. Because there’s so little out there, everyone w

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