Actor Daniel Franzese recently caught up with Gay Star News where he talked about a wide range of topics, including turning 40 and the possibility of a second Looking movie. Wait… what?!
“I don’t see why we couldn’t make another movie,” Franzese says. “I totally think we could make another movie one day.”
Franzese played Eddie, Agustin’s love interest and volunteers at a homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth, on the short-lived HBO series.
“People really identified with that character,” he says. “He was a pleasure to play and my costars were terrific. HBO is a class act.”
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After two seasons, HBO announced Looking would not be renewed for a third season, citing the sharp decline in ratings.
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Despite poor ratings, the show had a strong cult following. So to satisfy fans and wrap the series up, HBO ordered a one-time TV movie special to serve as the finale. It premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in June 2016 but airing on HBO in July 2016.
Reflecting on his career thus far, Franzese says: “I’ve had great success with the impact of my Mean Girls character on young LGBTQs, to Looking where I was playing a HIV positive character who was healthy and happy; a romantic lead and sexualized, larger male.”
He adds, “I’m looking forward to the next role that pushes the envelope and helps move forward storylines for marginalized people!”
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DCguy
The “Looking Movie” irritated me only in that it showed me more of what the series could have been. The main character wasn’t a 31 year old acting like an 18 year old and that was a series I would have wanted to see! And a second movie would be great….as long as they didn’t model it on the second “Sex in the City” movie.
SebX
Can we please just let this thing die and never be mentioned again? Ever?
People may have liked it, but it was terrible in almost every possible way, and I’m not judging, I’ve loved trash tv shows. They were taking way more seriously than they should have with this show. It was as pretentious as it was boring, with bland, plain selfish non relatable characters you couldn’t root for in any way.
Frank Underwood was a horrible person as a character, but so endearing I found myself rooting for him even though he was horrible. Now _thats_ good writing.
This? This was doomed to fail from the first episode centering the main arc in a character that couldn’t even exist in its own world
Vince
You say you’re not going to judge but you spend the rest of your babbling judging it. Lol
Maybe it was boring because you didn’t like it. Next time look for the remote instead of sitting there complaining. I think it says way more about you.
Brian
Yeah, it was kind of hard to buy the idea of Patrick being in a love triangle when I couldn’t understand why anyone would even want him in the first place, let alone 2 men.
Morg
It was a horrible horrible show, i hope this will die off as it should have from the first episode.
Brian
I don’t think one of the actors saying “sure, why not” equals there being a possibility of a new movie.
socaliscorpio
I loved Looking and would LOVE to see another movie.
Kangol
Instead of another “Looking” snoozefest, perhaps some enterprising screenwriter and director will team up to give Daniel Franzese a chance at a film in which he plays the lead. That would already be 100 times more interesting than another retread of that tired failed series.
Mainere
YES! This show was truly robbed.