Now, almost everyone who's heard of Conrad Veidt has also heard that he played the first explicitly homosexual character in cinema in the gay rights film Different From The Others, in 1919, and perhaps also that he was bisexual himself ( Read more... )

There are plenty of good actors out there, but Connie involves you so physically. That when he does things like... Jaffar wibbling with the Princess, or Karl wibbling with Madeleine, you truly feel it physically in the body. And that's really rare, I find. I mean, ok, yes, yes, I am a hypersensitive git who feels everything "too" intensely anyway. ( Read more... )