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born 1988 England
Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Jonathan Bailey is known for his comedic and dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards.
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It is good to see a romance story getting the respect it deserves — people can relate because everyone gets the chance to fall in love at some point. Hopefully.
I think there’s something incredibly sexy about consent generally.
Theatre has often saved the day for me and that’s why I’ll forever think I’m a theatre actor more than anything else.
There’s a lot of pressure on romance, I think, because you have to be so truthful. But that’s what you want, isn’t it? You just want to find the truth in everything.
In 20 years, you don't want to be famous. You want a sustained career.
LGBT people are not that different - we're just as anxious and just as flawed and just as desperate to fall in love as everyone else.
I’ve never doubted I would have children. It’s not something I’ve ever wavered on.
I've never gone in as the overdog, and that's liberating and I don't want that to ever change. I just want to allow my own experiences to come through.
I was aged about five and I went to see Oliver!. I remember announcing to my family something very cliched like, I want to be up there one day.
Theatre is all about people. You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don’t click with the other people in the play, it won’t work.
It is a private matter [sexuality], but if there are opportunities to say something . . . I wonder if, if it would be beneficial to someone else, that responsibility is on you. It’s complicated.
Leadership is about authenticity and transparency. And being there. Being there as much as you can. There's a fearlessness to it.
Of course I thought that in order to be happy I needed to be straight. I reached a point where I thought, Fuck this, I'd much prefer to hold my boyfriend's hand in public or be able to put my own face picture on Tinder and not be so concerned about that than getting a part.
When you’re working with a genre like romance, which is about something fundamental which connects all humans, it’s so important that we can allow everyone to see themselves in that story, and that wasn't necessarily there for me growing up.
I have three older sisters who definitely encouraged me to lark around. I’m pretty sure they spent their Sundays dressing me up (in suitably androgynous clothing) and forcing me to sing Sister Sledge. They were my heroes growing up.
But with every job I’ve done that I’ve really enjoyed, I’ve never really ‘seen’ myself in it. If you can see yourself in something, you’ve probably already worked out your performance or the why. But if there’s that friction, then it means you’re going to come up with something new.
"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey Is Giving Us the Vapors" in GQ (9 March 2022)
I knew that I wanted to be visible about my sexuality, because in all the territories that Netflix goes out in, there might be a boy somewhere that goes, “Wait, what?” Which is what I didn’t have when I was young. All I know is that I’m happy to keep working really hard and if there are opportunities for representation, and to make that point, then that’s something I’ll always strive to do.
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