Talk about the role of a lifetime! When stage actor Mo Brady auditioned with Telsey & Company casting director Justin Huff for an ensemble role in the pre-Broadway tryout of Catch Me If You Can, he walked out with the part and the man he’d eventually marry and have a child with.
The cute couple shared their story with Playbill and it’s just as barf-inducingly adorable as you think it is:
You two have had a lot going on lately! We’ll start simple. How did you meet?
Mo Brady: I had been an actor [in Seattle] for many years and had done a bunch of shows at the 5th Avenue Theatre. We met there during the audition process for the out-of-town tryout of Catch Me if You Can.
Justin Huff: We never really delve into it too much because we always feel like, “Oh the casting director and the actor met at an audition…” We skim over that.We want the details! Were you worried about making the connection?
JH: Well I think at the time I was actually seeing someone, but of course we’re human, so you’ll be like, “Oh he’s attractive,” or “she’s attractive,” but I didn’t pursue that in the professional environment. It was only meeting through other people that we became socially connected. When I went back to Seattle for Spider-Man [ Turn Off The Dark] auditions I needed some help with open calls I was doing, so I asked Mo and another guy who had helped us with auditions when I was there forCatch Me If You Can and another friend of Mo’s, who’d I’d met through the audition process, to be PAs. Then we all hung out and got lunch together that day. The interaction had become social shortly after the audition experience for Catch Me if You Can, months prior.
The two were eventually married and recently welcomed son Brady Huff (take a guess how they came up with the name) via surrogate. There’s much more to this uber-romantic tale over at Playbill.
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Stache
Ah how cute. Meet the perfect hottie. Get married. Find a surrogate to pass on your hot genes while thousands sit unwanted in foster homes. The Perfect life everyone!!
QueertyQ
@Stache: Thousands are sitting unwanted in foster homes because of their parents, who procreated heterosexually, and then gave them up.
But yeah, blame a couple of gay guys for a. having their own kid b. for failing to deal with the issues left by others, presumably mostly/mainly heterosexuals.
Great thinking pal, gold star for you. (Eyeroll.)
rickyboi7
yes and no, love zac anyways, but too ripped turns me off a bit.
Invert
@QueertyQ: you forgot to drop the microphone!
EvonCook
And I was hoping for a real life casting couch success! Are we to celebrate every gay pair who manage to duplicate the heterosexual romantic ideal? Let’s check in in a few years and see how their normal male hormones continue to contribute to their assimilation or their distinction. It is going to be a very boring, bland and much less creative world if all the gays of the future get co-opted and lose their naturally subversive inclinations and instincts. Do we enrich and stretch the heterosexual world or does it finally conquer the magical gay gene?
zooby
@QueertyQ: What a classless and disgusting reply. There’s nothing wrong with paying mind to the children already here who need a home, jerk.
zooby
Some people wanted children, not a mini them. Two gay men together cannot have a child that carries both their genes, but OH RIGHT they gotta have one of the partner’s blood and some random chick’s egg for it to be a real child they can love, right? So heteronormative. We can’t have kids that are both our partner AND ours, so what is the point? Are you that narcissistic that you need a child of your own blood?
Leonard Woodrow
@QueertyQ: Well said! Stache is so blinkered he can’t see the end of his nose, but insists in shoving it where it’s not wanted.
Raphael
@zooby: After that answer you have the nerve to say that his reply was disgusting!? Such a hypocrite! Why would they have be forced to adopt? As QueertyQ said, they were not the ones who gave birth and left those children. Whether you like it or not, it’s not their problem to solve. They could adopt? They could! Wanting a child of their own makes them bad people? Absolutely not! I bet you would not say something like that to a heterosexual couple, right? Because if we were to use your logic, then no one should reproduce, hetero, homo or whatever, until there are no children left to be adopted.
Stache
@Leonard Woodrow: @Raphael: I’m sure you both think puppy mills are a good thing too.
Bauhaus
Yikes. The criticism on this thread… A gay couple met, fell in love, got married, and started a family. Congratulations!
@EvonCook:
My subversive inclinations and instincts are still very much intact.
zooby
@Raphael: Yes, SO DISGUSTING. Guess the truth hurt. Go re-read my comment until you understand it.. if that ever happens. I said that, as gay men, we CAN’T reproduce biologically (that might come as a shock to you but it is the truth) so this way of having to pay sh t loads just to have a kid that semi has your DNA is ridiculous. Again – we can’t have a kid that is biologically ours and our partners!
And would I ask that to a hetero couple? Yes, and I have. If they could not produce a child of their own (like… gay males CAN’T biologically), I suggest the alternative. If they get offended by the mere suggestion about parenting a child that is not their blood OR refuse to, it is because they are narcissists. Plain and simple.
Finally, I never said it was our problem to solve, but the way gays need to bring in more kids into the world (AGAIN, when we CANNOT have a child biologically ours and our partner) is ridiculous and narcissistic as hell… and heteronormative as well.
zooby
@Stache: “OMG but like.. it isn’t our problem to solve! ;)”