Joining the ranks of Ryan Murphy and Greg Berlanti in elevating LGBTQ characters and voices, writer Tom MacRae made his US film debut with EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE.
The show itself started as a collaboration between Tom MacRae (who also wrote the screenplay) and musician Dan Gillespie Sells, responsible for the songs and collaborating on the film’s score with Oscar winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty).
MacRae is entirely self-taught in screenwriting, playwrighting, and scripting for television. MacRae was nominated for a BAFTA early in his career for writing the TV movie Off Limits: School's Out. From there, he’s worked consistently, notably as a writer on the cult hit TV series “Doctor Who,” and he then created and wrote “Threesome,” Comedy Central UK’s first original scripted comedy since the channel was renamed in 2009, which got him noticed in the United States.
On this episode of Metrosource Minis, we chat with Tom MacRae from across the pond about growing up as a gay kid in a small town, how he got into the writing biz, his creative process, getting Jamie to the stage, meeting the real-life Jamie and his mom, bringing the show to the US, his favorite scene from the film, making his own cameo in the movie, and handling his new found US fame, and what's ahead...with host Alexander Rodriguez.
