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Shunned, abused and tortured: David Berry portrays what many homosexual men endured in 1950s Australia
ACTOR David Berry would be so traumatised by his television traits some days that he’d break down in hysterics on set.
The 31-year-old luminary of A Place To Call Home would be totally inconsolable — a sobbing mess. And he began to take the weighty experiences of James Bligh with him at the conclude of a day’s filming.
It wasn’t just the heavy storylines from the Foxtel period drama, place in 1950s Australia — it was that so much truth was woven in to the fictional heir to a farming fortune.
James is married but gay and, in the previous two seasons, has experienced everything from forbidden love to family disapproval and even horrific “treatments” including electroshock.
“In the start, I did a lot of explore about what it meant to be a gay male in this era,” Berry said.
“But I also interviewed men who lived through this time, as well as those ordeals — including the so-called therapies. I looked at real stories so I could say an honest one with these characters.
“That’s why I touch an enormous burden. I have a very real possibility to do James well because
Outlander‘s David Berry on John’s Desire for Jamie: ‘You Don’t Need Much Route to Look at Sam Longingly’
If discretion is the beat part of valor, Outlander‘s David Berry deserves some kind of medal for our recent chat.
The Australian actor portrays the Starz historical drama’s Lord John Grey, an earnest British soldier and closeted gay man who — like many characters in the drama — silently yearns for James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, played by Sam Heughan. Warning: Book (and potential Season 4) spoilers ahead. If you don’t want to know, skip down to the Q&A below.
Because Season 4 of the TV adaptation will yank heavily from Drums of Autumn, the fourth novel in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, it’s likely that we’ll see Lord John (and William!) arrive in the Thirteen Colonies before season’s end — and, thanks to circumstances beyond their control, they’ll wait longer than he originally intends. If the series closely follows the novel, we also understand that Lord John also will compete a rather essential part in another Fraser’s storyline as the e
David Berry
I first interviewed David Berry on A Place to Call Home. Now he’s an international success through another period drama – Outlander. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David again.
You’ve had great international success with Outlander. Tell us about playing Lord John Grey.
David Berry: I get to participate a great character, with actors and a crew that are world class. I was adv prepared for that from my experience in Australia on A Place to Call Home, but Outlander takes it into an extra gear. It’s been a fun experience and certainly opened me to a whole bunch of other experiences through operational and living in Scotland.
You’ve now been in quite a several period dramas!
Drama is great because you get to play dress-ups with all the artistic details. The thought that goes into making a period production is something special. There’s so much artistry and work from people behind the scenes, which also assists me in my career. I really like the historical component as I’ve been education about both Scottish and American histories. From a performance show of view, it doesn’t really change too much because it’s about humans just living in a different time
From Outlander to A Place to Call Home
It’s only by coincidence that David Berry’s biggest acting roles have seen him portray two closeted gay characters who, ironically, have appeared simultaneously on Australian TV screens this year.
His breakout role in Bevan Lee’s gripping period drama, A Place to Call Place, saw him carry the emotional burdens of James Bligh, a young queer man who struggles to accept his sexuality during the testing times of the 1950s.
Since then he has gone on to land another notable role, this time in the romance-meets-history drama Outlander as gay closeted soldier Lord John Grey, who develops feelings for Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) after the ruggedly handsome Scot had spared his experience when he was a teenager, a scene that played out in season two.
Both series are currently airing on Foxtel’s Showcase channel.
“I couldn’t tell you that the thought didn’t cross my mind about the similarities for sure, you can see it,” the 33-year-old actor says of the two roles.
“But at the similar time I loathe to draw too many comparisons because they are two separate people and I don’t want to join them in ways just because of their sexuality as a reductive way to l