{"id":2067198,"date":"2025-10-03T18:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2067198"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:18:17","slug":"russell-tovey-and-pedro-pascal-agree-that-being-vers-is-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/russell-tovey-and-pedro-pascal-agree-that-being-vers-is-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Tovey and Pedro Pascal agree that being ‘vers is the best’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russell Tovey<\/a> plays a closeted queer man in Plainclothes<\/em> \u2014 a new film by Carmen Emmi in which the out actor costars alongside Tom Blyth.<\/p>\n

During a very candid interview with Pedro Pascal for Man About Town<\/a><\/em>, the actors discuss why being “vers is the best,” how the power dynamics completely shift in Plainclothes<\/em>, and Tovey even lands on a new drag name.<\/p>\n

Pedro Pascal enjoys the film’s ‘eroticism of danger.’<\/h2>\n

Pascal highlights the “nostalgic” element of Plainclothes<\/em> and how it is evocative of independent queer cinema in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

“You have a priest, you have a cop, so there’s all this fantasy there,” Pascal notes. “And then the eroticism of danger, and also just beneath all of that, the grief of shame, and the poison of shame, and the liberation from it, which is really, really beautiful.”<\/p>\n

Tovey agrees, “I like ‘shame’ as a theme, and how we can be highly functioning and full of shame.”<\/p>\n

“How we basically are highly functioning and full of shame\u2026” Pascal adds.<\/p>\n

Russell Tovey reflects on gay ‘shame.’<\/h2>\n

Tovey underscores how hard it was to come of age as a gay man during the period he became a teenager and young adult.<\/p>\n

“I just didn’t feel like I was safe, and I think I had inherent shame. And I think you always have that,” Russell muses. “I feel like my character, Andrew, is filled with shame, but he’s highly functioning, and he knows how to survive.”<\/p>\n

Things change when Tovey’s character, Andrew, is thrown off balance after meeting Blyth’s character, Lucas, and realizing that they have actual feelings for each other.<\/p>\n

The down-low relationship between Andrew and Lucas is “meant to just be a hookup, but there are emotions involved. For him, emotions are dangerous,” Tovey observes. “They aren’t things that he wants to have to think about. It’s just functional.”<\/p>\n

Pedro Pascal and Russell Tovey agree that ‘vers is the best.’<\/h2>\n
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