Todd Haynes gives some more details on his sexually 'explicit' gay period drama with Joaquin Phoenix: 'It's a love story and with a strong sexual component.'
In a new interview from France's Deauville American Film Festival, Haynes offered some more info on the collaboration and just how gay we're getting here .| Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Phillip Faraone/FilmMagic
"It's a love story between two men set in the 30s that has explicit sexual content that or at least it challenges you with the sexual relationship between these two men," Haynes told. "One is a Native American character and one is a corrupt cop in LA. It's set in the 30s. They have to flee L.A. ultimately and go to Mexico. But it's a love story and with a strong sexual component.
Haynes reiterated that the film all stemmed from ideas Phoenix had brought to him that he developed along with thecollaborator John Raymond. Haynes also made sure to note that it was Phoenix who was "pushing it further into more dangerous territory, sexually." Phoenix, one assumes, will play the corrupt cop though Haynes has not yet cast the Native character. He says the eventual actor is "probably going to be a discovery," which is exciting since we haven't had a good "And Introducing..." in a while.