Hal Sparks Reveals Why He Had to Have His 'Queer As Folk' Role — And Fired His Agents Over It - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 I, like everybody else here, was shooting

00:05 Dude Wears My Car when I got the script.

00:07 (laughing)

00:08 And my agent manager at the time,

00:10 who I'm no longer with for the record,

00:13 which is pivotal to this,

00:14 presented the script to me like they were wearing

00:18 hazmat suits and they were carrying it with salad tongs.

00:22 Like, it's a hit in England, I don't know,

00:25 we don't recommend it, but you get mad

00:28 if we don't let you read stuff.

00:29 And they gave me the pilot script for it

00:33 and it just existed.

00:36 Like, you know, when I read it, I was like,

00:39 I know, there's Michael.

00:40 - Can you lie down on your back?

00:42 - Sure, on my back.

00:47 - Okay, I know what he looks like,

00:48 I know what he sounds like, I know what he moves like,

00:49 I know he hesitates when he walks into a room.

00:51 - This is my favorite position.

00:54 I'm just kidding.

00:54 - You just knew reading it, you're like,

00:57 this is important, this is just important.

00:59 This has to be done, it has to be done well,

01:02 and if I can contribute to that,

01:03 that will be a gift in my life that I've been given.

01:08 (whooshing)

01:10 (laughing)