Jonathan Bailey is opening up about his new show Fellow Travelers with Matt Bomer!
In the upcoming Showtime series, Jonathan, 35, and Matt, 45, play two very different men that meet during the McCarthy-era in Washington, DC and despite it being one of the most dangerous times for LGBTQ+ people in politics, the two fall in love.
While promoting the show in a new interview, Jonathan talked about filming sex scenes with Matt and why the scenes were so “important” to be included in the show.
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“I think it’s so important. You can’t tell the queer love story and not show how the sex is so intrinsic,” Jonathan shared with Out.
“It’s all something that is hard to talk about to people who come together and have separate bodies,” Jonathan continued. “But if you exist in the same body, how you negotiate that and what that means, how being submissive [affects sex], and well, really what is kink…It’s all a thing. I just think it’s a really hearty and honest examination of something which I know I’ve always yearned to see properly explored.”
“I think it’s so nuanced and personal, isn’t it? The way that people have sex is so presumed,” Jonathan explained. “It definitely was the first time that I’ve seen a light being shown on the roles within a gay relationship and power and status with being submissive and dominant.”
Jonathan also said that in the show, his and Matt‘s characters switch up their sexual dynamics.
“But to me, what I find interesting, it’s a give and take between the two. So actually it’s not one person going, ‘I’m now going to do this,’” Jonathan explained. “It’s like they move as a unit. And I think that’s beautiful. And I feel like it always is negotiation, and I’m always interested in people who identify as one role, and I would wonder what that is.”
Jonathan added, “It’s a love story. So that bleeds into these scenes. So even in the way they have sex, it’s always about generosity and communication. And that is essentially how I feel how this whole show was made on generosity and communication and truth.”
Fellow Travelers premieres on October 27th on Showtime and Paramount+. Watch the teaser here!