![]() Quinto proves to be a deep talker (his voice is very much basso profundo) and thinker. Quinto who approached first by Immordino Vreeland, whose documentary subjects have included her grandmother-in-law, the former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and the art collector Peggy Guggenheim. I think Truman and Tennessee’s relationship was probably a bit more fraught.” ![]() Quinto adds: “I’d always enjoyed hanging out, but there’s something much deeper that happens when you show up for somebody every night on stage. “When we first started the readings for Boys, I wrote to Zach afterwards to say I needed him to play his part in order that I could play my part – I knew instantly that I needed him to play Harold to my Michael.” “We had so many people in common for so many years, but we didn’t really have our own thing until we started working together,” says Parsons. Photograph: Clifford Coffin Irving Penn/The Irving Penn Foundation ‘There’s a beautiful, brutal honesty about them’. Parsons is at home with his husband, Todd, in New York, while Quinto is in Ojai, California, with a noisy German shepherd puppy. The warmth between them is apparent over a video call. While they had known each other socially for years, it was a revival of Mart Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band, a seminal work of LGBTQ+ theatre, that cemented their friendship – first in the 50th-anniversary Broadway production in 2018 and then in the 2020 movie adaptation for Netflix. Quinto is best known for his recurring role as Spock in three Star Trek movies, Parsons for his 12 seasons as Sheldon the uber-geek in the much-loved sitcom The Big Bang Theory. ![]() Zachary Quinto and Jim Parsons, the actors who lend their voices to Williams and Capote in the film, have plenty in common, too: they are gay men in Hollywood who have spent most of their careers in the gravitational pull of entertainment behemoths playing characters who are fluent in Klingon. Their lifelong friendship – and occasionally bitter rivalry – is the subject of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s artful documentary Tennessee & Truman: An Intimate Conversation.
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