I don’t think I was able to know that from my vantage point at the time we worked together.ĬD: I knew you were gay, and I knew you had made this choice to come out, and you were still very raw from that. I don’t mean to compare our experiences actually because adolescence is something everybody has to go through, and of course it’s dark. She said everything that I wanted in my heart but didn’t have the means of articulating. Also, I had this language delivered to me by a brilliant writer. One, I didn’t have to go to school suddenly. I was so bad at it.ĬD: Some people are better than others. I felt bludgeoned, navigating my way through those social gymnastics. I had just gone through junior high school. That’s a very challenging age, especially for girls. I don’t think I’ve ever been in more pain in my life. I wonder if there were things that you felt that way about.ĬD: Oh, my gosh. When I look back on that whole experience, I think of my fictional world and my reality converging.
Months later, I get this script where Rickie goes through a very similar thing. I remember we were with Winnie on our way to something, and I told her what had happened with my dad. WC: I lived on friends’ couches and in my car until we started filming the series. So that’s when I told my parents, and that’s when I was kicked out. I wanted people to know that I, as a gay man - a gay boy at the time - really put my stamp of approval to what we were doing.
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I had made a deal with myself that I would come out if the series went. I read it, and I had to decide whether or not I wanted to disclose to her. WC: My agent sent me the script, and she didn’t necessarily know that I was gay. and Devon Odessa had worked so much, and they were so savvy.ĬD: Jared had done a Noxzema commercial, so he was big time. For you, it was probably that much more heightened, because there hadn’t been a precedent.
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I remember having these conversations with you and thinking back, “Could she really comprehend what I was talking about?” But you did.ĬD: We were all kind of venturing forth into a big unknown. Wilson Cruz: I was 19 when we made the pilot. It was euphoric.” Here’s what they had to say about the groundbreaking series created by Winnie Holzman.Ĭlaire Danes: Wilson, can you remember what we did 25 years ago? I don’t know if I had done that before, gone out dancing for the sake of it. “I remember dancing with you to ‘Sweet Dreams,’” Danes tells Cruz. It feels like no time has passed between the two co-stars as Danes recalls one of her favorite episodes, set at an AIDS dance-a-thon. On a recent evening, Danes takes a break from shooting “ Homeland” in Morocco to chat with Cruz for Variety’s Pride Issue. And Cruz brought an LGBTQ character into living rooms before “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Dawson’s Creek” did the same a few years later.
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As a true confidant to Claire Danes’ Angela, Rickie was both a TV trendsetter and a wonderfully ordinary teen. But Wilson Cruz changed that with his depiction of Rickie, a proudly rebellious high school sophomore who was a key member of Angela Chase’s social circle. When “ My So-Called Life” debuted in 1994, there weren’t many portraits of gay teenagers on television.
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