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Murray Bartlett serving in Butt Magazine
Murray Bartlett plays Dom on Looking, which airs Sunday nights on HBO  
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42-year-old Murray Bartlett is the dashing Australian actor playing an American in the new serialized HBO gay dramedy, Looking. On that show, he plays Dom, one of three gay buddies living the life in San Francisco. Before he stole the show as Dom, Murray was busy-busy refining his acting chops in the theater, seducing daytime TV housewives, and appearing in supporting parts on shows like Damages and Sex and the City. Since the promo of Looking has been in full swing, Murray’s thick, lunate moustache dominates every second billboard in Los Angeles, where we meet up for a chat. Those twinkling blue eyes! It’s giving me a semi just sitting next to him.
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Was it fun to make Looking in San Francisco?
We were having such a great time, living in this bubble…
Like when you’re super drunk at a party and you assume that everyone loves you, and then the next day you’re like, ‘Did they though…?’.
It didn’t feel like work at all.
You shot everything there?
Yeah, it’s a beautiful city. It really is. People are more laid-back in San Francisco. Maybe because it’s physically closer to the water? It’s also got this ‘smaller city thing’ that reminded me of Perth. But you’ve got to be careful what you do there because everyone knows everyone.
Are all the actors on the show gay?
No, it’s a real mix. I don’t think that played into casting at all.
I was thinking about how in Brokeback Mountain, it’s so obvious they’re not really gay because of the sex scene. You don’t go in dry that quick and easy…
I thought they were really great in that film. I don’t think it matters, or should matter, whether you’re gay in real life, if you’re playing a gay. But you gotta do your research, I mean, otherwise it’s not believable. It’s frustrating when you hear that gay actors don’t get straight roles because of their sexuality.
Yeah, I mean that’s the thing — it’s acting!
It just doesn’t make sense.
I remember watching Will & Grace as a kid, and not really identifying. Looking seems like a more realistic portrayal of the gays.
All those shows that have had gay characters, or have been gay-centric, have come at different times and have been reflections of those times. Looking is a reflection of this time where, hopefully, we’re ready for a next-level kind of honesty. Did you ever see Weekend? Andrew Haigh directed it. When you watch that film, there’s nothing between you and the characters. You’re in their space and it’s very raw, but it doesn’t feel like you’re being beaten over the head with gay issues, even though there are quite a lot of intense concepts.
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