In an interview with the Daily
Beast, Jonathan Groff says he feels comfortable discussing the
sexual pursuits of his character on HBO's Looking.
Looking returned for a second
season on Sunday.
The openly gay Groff plays Patrick on
the series, a young man who has come to San Francisco to find love.
Season one ended with Patrick juggling two men: Richie (played by
Raul Castillo) and Kevin (Russell Tovey).
In the interview, Groff denied he was
“brave” for taking on the show's graphic sex scenes.
“The other night we were at the
premiere and they were all like, 'So brave. So brave. So brave. To be
an out actor and getting fucked against a tree and doing anal
bleaching and all of that stuff,'” he
said. “And I was like, OK. It doesn't feel brave to me! I
think it's a couple of things. Raul was calling it an occupational
hazard, that all of us are really comfortable talking about graphic
elements on the show because we experience them on the show and they
become comfortable things.”
“So when interviews start talking
about ass-eating and stuff, it doesn't feel weird to us because it's
just part of the storytelling. But also I think it's just that the
younger generation is just more comfortable talking about sex and
being gay. That's one of the wonderful things about being youngish
in 2015 and being gay. There's not so much of a taboo on all of that
stuff. I love it. It's such a part of my life. It's what I talk
about with my friends all of the time, so it feels natural to be
discussing all of it.”