Law’s first significant film role came in 1997 when Wilde’s director Brian Gilbert cast him in the part of Bosie, as Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde’s lover, was know. As with Indiscretions, doing the film was a courages move on Law’s part. Ethan Hawke puts it this way: “If you were a young male actor and wanted to be successful, it was taboo to play a gay man, because people might think that you were gay.” […]
Law, however, dismissed the risks. […] “I thought, Here is a chance to not only tell one of the greatest love stories of one of the greatest literary figures of our time, but also get under the skin of why these two guys fell for each other […] Bosie wore his sexuality so publicly. He released the hand brake, allowed Oscar to sort of juggernaut into it. I love that.” — Vanity Fair, December 2000
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