Actor Jonathan Bailey, who plays Anthony Bridgerton in the series “Bridgerton”, will experience a love story with Matt Bomer (from “White Collar Crimes” and “Doom Patrol”) in a miniseries on the American pay channel Showtime. Entitled “Traveling Companions”, the production is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon.
The story is a combination of romance and suspense, set against the backdrop of the McCarthy era, which began after World War II, when Senator Joseph McCarthy began the period of the greatest repression in US history, promoting debauchery in the lives of several people in search of communist infiltrators, mainly in Hollywood, which spawned the infamous Black List, with names that could not be hired for movies or series.
McCarthy and his chief adviser Roy Cohn also declare war on “sexual subversives and deviants”.
The two actors, openly gay, will live a forbidden love story in this unstable period. Bomer will play the “handsome and charismatic” Hawkins Fuller, a young man who runs away from emotional ties, until he meets Tim Laughlin, played by Bailey, an idealist who suffers from his religious faith.
The plot will follow the encounters and disagreements of the two of McCarthy’s “witch hunt”, from the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s to the disco era of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
Created by Ron Nyswaner, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for “Philadelphia” (1993), the miniseries will begin shooting later this month in Toronto, Canada.
There is no release date yet.
Source: Terra
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