1:09:00
...and the question is, how do you move....
1:09:03
How do you reach a whoIe state...
1:09:05
...where there is such
deep-seated hostiIity toward gays?
1:09:08
How do you reach them?
1:09:10
Angels in America is just the beginning.
1:09:13
And guess who's auditioning for the Iead?
1:09:16
My parents, right, they're Iike:
1:09:18
''So what pIays are they doing
in schooI this year?''
1:09:21
''let's see, Angels in America.''
1:09:25
''Wait.
1:09:27
''Angels in America? Isn't that that pIay?
1:09:30
''It's that scene?
1:09:33
''So you're gonna audition for this?''
1:09:36
And I said:
1:09:39
''Yeah, I am.''
1:09:41
Huge argument, right?
1:09:43
It was this huge argument,
and my mom says:
1:09:45
''You know, homosexuaIity is a sin.
HomosexuaIity is a sin.''
1:09:49
But the best thing
that I knew I had on them...
1:09:52
...was that they had just seen me...
1:09:54
...right before this, onstage in Macbeth.
1:09:57
I murdered this IittIe kid and lady MacDuff
and these two other guys, right?
1:10:02
I'm Iike, ''Mom....
1:10:05
''I just pIayed a murderer tonight,
and you...
1:10:08
''...didn't seem to have
any probIem with that.''
1:10:11
-So when's the audition?
-Tuesday.
1:10:15
I have never prepared myseIf
for an audition Iike this in my Iife.
1:10:20
Not even cIose.
1:10:22
Everybody second-guesses
what you're doing.
1:10:26
You get a Iot of heavy criticism.
1:10:29
You did everything wrong.
1:10:31
You're not supposed to touch anybody
without gIoves and protective gear.
1:10:38
Then they make you out
to be some kind of big hero.
1:10:43
Some Joe BIow down the bIock,
he couId have done a better job than I did.
1:10:52
PeopIe do extraordinary things every day.
1:10:56
I think this has reaIIy brought home
to my girIs...