After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
When Bound was released, Boys don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Thrillers have become all about technology and using technology. That seemed, to me, not so interesting.
We were so hungry for 'Sex and the City' that even though it was heightened and written by gay men, we just needed to see different women on television. Give us another movie.