A Mighty Fine Life

mood: contemplative

“I think if Fred Astaire was alive today having his career that he had back then it definitely would be conceived in a completely different way” says Lucas wearily. “And I just think it’s a sign of the times that we as Americans have been scared into judgment of all kinds of people… Everyone is always trying to figure out ‘Are you different than me?’ and I think that’s definitely where the problem comes in with everyone thinking that I’m gay because I can dance and I don’t care at all… it’s just up to you to make a good decision whether you’re going to believe them [the rumors] or not.”

"I was going do my best with my character to make sure that he had a journey that wasn’t repeating the same thing over and over again. Especially in the third movie I had a lot of conversations about that – you may have noticed that Sharpay tries to coax Ryan into getting the song for her a lot like she does in the first movie. I brought that up and I was like ‘Look – he’s already done this. He was the hero in 2. He’s not going to go back on his word and just be the lame duck again, you know, the puppy dog."

“Obviously it’s a Disney movie they can’t have an openly gay character in the movie and that’s a whole other discussion about where the times are in this country. But the relationship between Ryan and Kelsi started from the first movie and cycled through all three. I think of course they would go to prom together and I still don’t think that that makes him gay or straight or anything.”

“I’ll say this – there are so many more subtleties to that movie that kids will hopefully get when they’re showing it to their kids later, later, later on but never were meant to be taken as literal… it’s hard for me to talk about it [to the general public] but over a beer with my friends we’ve dichotomized High School Musical so many different ways.”