Jeffrey was the first. It was 1994 and we had just wrapped the seventh and final season of Star Trek and I said to my agent, ‘Find me a job. I don’t care what i is but let it be as far removed from science fiction and outer space as possible!’ And very shortly he rang me and said, ‘I’e got it! There’s a move they’re making called Jeffrey…’ I had seen Paul Rudnick’s wonderful play here in New York and I met with the director. I think that was my first time playing an openly gay character and I enjoyed it immensely. Having led a life in the theater, I had been in the company of homosexual men and women from [the time I was] a teenager. It was familiar and completely normal. When we were prepping for the movie, the production designer said he wanted to have lots of photographs around Sterling’s apartment — of them on holiday and with friends and so forth — so how would you feel if you and Bryan [Batt] and Steve Weber [who played Jeffrey] go off and walk around the West Village. It was a Saturday afternoon during a hot summer, so without quite knowing exactly where he was with his camera we spent a couple of hours just hanging out and it was the loveliest experience. Liberating. And intimate. And fun.”
— Patrick Stewart discussing his second-most famous role, Sterling in the 1995 film adaptation of Paul Rudnick’s hit play Jeffrey, in an interview with DNA magazine
Watch a clip reel from the film below.
Anthony Lower
“To see the apartment” LOL
Dave Basora
“Oooh! Get her!”
Blake Mason
I loved the movie Jeffrey. It was a great gay themed movie from way back in my youth – when I was devouring every little bit of gay life I could get! And to see one of my favourite characters in such a flamboyant way, and the way he carried it … it’s not hard to understand why people made the stupid mistake of seeing him as gay … Back then, the dying gay guy stereotype wasn’t so entrenched, so I hadn’t built up my jaded facade and I was very saddend by his partners death. Overall, the whole movie was very important in my movie landscape …
Joseph Perry
And he was fucking fabulous!
Tony Sands
I love that movie.
Sweetie Pie
I woundn´t mind a manwich with Patrick and Bryan…me in the middle
Stache99
..and what are you doing after the parade? Angelic is removing her penis. It’s coming right off. LMAO
Martin Stone Hennessee
“Yoko Ono…to see the apartment!” Classic!
Cam
So Jeffrey, you saw Mother Theresa?
Yes,
Well how did she look?
Great!
Oh PLEASE! She’s HAD work done!
PARKAVMAN
He was great in that. He is a great actor in anything. I love his bromance with Ian McKlellan.
SteveDenver
Patrick Stewart is awesome!
Bill Eagle Murray
What else would you expect from the Captain of the Enterprise!
Avery Alvarez
I have nothing but praise for Patrick Stewart.
What an amazing, charismatic actor.
And that really deep theater voice!
Jean Philippe Laplagne
Great movie and play.
Dale Landefeld
liberating….hahaha…..I believe it….
silveroracle
Dear hearts, Patrick and Ian, we love you very much!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Aren’t they the perfect couple.
John
Love the movie and Michael T Weiss to boot!