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I mean, love is love and attraction is attraction. But no, not really, because I like thinking that it's all sort of the same. But do you feel a certain comfort or freedom when you get to play a gay character? Hmm. Your roles on Chuck and Leverage also come to mind as recent straight characters. How has the AIDS crisis affected you personally? I've lost a couple of friends, but not many, thank God. You were a sexually active gay man long before you came out. Once we deal with the original possibility of Jonathan having given it to Saul, I don't find myself thinking about being an HIV-positive character at all when I'm playing scenes. Besides, both Saul and Jonathan are quite used to taking their meds and feeling healthy, so I don't think it's something that they think about that much. From an actor's point of view, all characters are totally worthy of loving respect. There's no other way to approach a character. But when playing an HIV-positive character, do you feel an added sense of responsibility to represent that community truthfully and respectfully? No, not added, because I play a character with truth and respect anyway. The audience sees gay people and straight people on a very leveled playing field, and that's very useful for the American public, who sometimes doesn't see things that way. One of the things I love about Brothers & Sisters is that all the characters on the show are absolutely equal and, in a sense, like everybody else. It must be a different experience to play an HIV-positive gay man as an out actor in 2010.
Along with everyone else, I'd almost forgotten that. You've played an HIV-positive gay character before, haven't you? Have I? In the 1997 straight-to-DVD indie A River Made to Drown In. Everyone over there is so into each other and for each other. Has he helped you develop your character? Yes, everybody's been incredibly helpful. David Marshall Grant, head show runner of Brothers & Sisters, is also a gay man. No, it hadn't really occurred to me until now.
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Did you ever imagine that you'd be involved in a gay love triangle on prime-time TV at the age of 76? That's very funny. It's been reported that Michael Gross from Family Ties will appear in an upcoming episode as a gay character who somehow comes between Jonathan and Saul. That's about as much as has been revealed on the show so far, and I'm told that I mustn't reveal anything else. Saul isn't at all happy about seeing me again. As revealed in my first episode, Jonathan may have been the one who gave Saul HIV in the '80s, though Jonathan didn't even remember that they had slept together. Saul was a serious kind of guy, but Jonathan was a heartbreaking playboy at that time. My character met Ron's character, Saul, back in the '80s. We had mutual friends, but we hadn't met before this. He's so good that when I play a scene with him, I find that I almost get distracted just watching the wonderful things that he's doing. What an unbelievable cast! Ron Rifkin is an actor of astounding ability. Were you a fan of the show before you got the part? Richard Chamberlain: I liked the show a lot, but I hadn't watched as regularly as I do since I got the job. : Congratulations on your new role on Brothers & Sisters.
Now 76 and playing an HIV-positive love interest for Ron Rifkin's Uncle Saul on ABC's Brothers & Sisters, which returns January 2 after a holiday hiatus, Chamberlain explains why other gay leading men would be unwise to follow in his footsteps. Kildare and the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds - though perhaps better known to younger gay viewers for his post-millennial guest spots on Nip/Tuck, Desperate Housewives, and Will & Grace - Richard Chamberlain officially came out in 2003 with the release of his memoir, Shattered Love.
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