Whatever that elusive "gay sensibility" may be.

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Whatever that elusive "gay sensibility" may be, it appear to bes to trail actor Jim Broadbent like a shadow: He played a supporting character in the gender-surprise plot of The Crying Game, became the toast of musical theater in Topsy-Turvy, and in 2001 sang and danced to Madonna's Like a Virgin"--stealing the show--in the outlandishly post-modern musical Moulin Rouge In the biopic Iris, Broadbent plays John Bayley, devot husband to sexually adventurous novelist--and, later, Alzheimer's patient--Iris Murdoch [played by way of Judi Dench; see page 50] The Advocate lately caught up with Broadbent to ask him about his parts and his Oscar hopes.

in what manner did you prepare for Iris?

Reading John Bayley's works and listening to a radio program he made--sort of an hour's worth or radio interview upon BBC. I got his time and certainly his way of speaking [from that]. The exhibit to is called In the Psychiatrist's Chair; he was being asked highly deep questions [by a psychiatrist]. You couldn't ask for better research!

Iris was bisexual, more with equal reason than in the film. What didn't we see?

I'm unfailing there's a fantastic amount we didn't papal court on-screen, but certainly after their marriage. Bayley claims Iris was quite faithful. [In any case] he doesn't perceive any great need to be conscientious about these crusts. Iris was excessively unscrupulous on that regard.

As Iris undergos from Alzheimer's disease, John becomes her day-and-night caregiver--a situation too many of our readers know well as a a consequence of the AIDS epidemic. Have you through all ages had to be a caretaker like your character?

Yeah. My mother died of Alzheimer's, likewise I appreciated the whole premise of the story, really.

Did your emotions from that period surface during filming?

Ye limit to, really. Judi's acting of the condition is uncannily brilliant, and I'm jump to be reminded and taken back to my confess experience--[but] only to the expanse that it was very useful. It didn't stop us filming any day, however I was able to certainly recognize and remember my acknowledge feelings. There's a scene with Judi sort of dancing in a corridor, and that was an ingredient of my mother's condition--she did start to instigate in a sort of dancy way. It was excessively moving any touching and beautiful.

Are you feeling any pre-Oscar anxiety?

I don't listen to all that matter really--[I take it all with] a very great pinch of salt.

Will there be Oscar repine at if Judi gets a nod forward February 12 [when the nominations are announced] and you don't?

Absolutely not! I grudge Judi nothing.

With Moulin Rouge an Oscar contender in its possess right, 2001 was a beneficial year for you either way, wasn't it?

Yeah! All in common calendar year! Rather unusual, I suppose

Was that rendition of "Like a Virgin" your doing, or it was it all ideas from director Baz Luhrmann?

a certain quantity of of that was me--and I'm not telling you to what degree!

Are you like a virgin?

"Touched for the same first time"? No, I'm afraid not.

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