Ask the Flying Monkey! (March 18, 2009)

As for Forbidden Love, Thore Schölermann (who plays Christian) told me not three weeks ago that the characters are on secondary status right now while other characters are front-and-center, but that Olli and Christian will have more major storylines again very soon.

Forbidden Love's Christian & Olli

Q: I recently saw the very interesting film, Brothers of the Head, which was about conjoined twins fronting a punk band. In the film, they share a kiss. Though it made sense in the world of the film, it struck me as fairly creepy, because the actors playing the twins are brothers in real life. I was wondering if the actors had ever commented on that scene? — Megan, NY

Harry and Luke Treadaway in Brothers of the Head

A: I couldn’t find anything from the actors, but then again, they are actors, playing a role. Is kissing a family member that different than a gay actor being asked to kiss a woman?

Okay, maybe it is.

Anyway, one of the directors did talk about the infamous kiss at the time of the film’s 2005 release.

“[The twins] have a very physically intimate relationship with each other, everything from a scene where they kiss each other to more subtle things where they might just stroke each other's hair absent-mindedly while they're sitting there,” Louis Pepe, who directed the “mockumentary” with his real-life partner Keith Fulton, told the Bay Area Reporter. “We wanted the film to have that eroticism without it ever being as cut-and-dry as, ‘This one's gay and that one's straight.’ There's a scene where Barry kisses another guy. You ask different audiences about whether Barry's gay and people say, ‘Oh no, he's a rock star, he'll kiss whoever's available to kiss him!’”

Next page! The Dawson's Creek / Broken Hearts Club connection.