![]() The way he wrote queer characters, Black characters, brown characters, and he wrote them full-bodied, complex, messy, still deserving of respect. And it's a testament to Jonathan because, and I've been saying this a lot lately, Jonathan is one of the greatest white allies, straight white allies we've ever had. I have that dynamic with my straight male friends, but I've never seen that modeled before. There's something so beautiful about that. For us, it's just two men being intimate and caretaking. He and I are very touchy, feely, lovey people, so there was a great comfort in just being able to hold his face, a position that traditionally is considered romantic. "I remember we finished that day and Andrew just goes, 'There's a love story here too.' And there was something about that that just immediately let us lock into that and go further into it. "The first day of rehearsals, when we were doing table work and going through the scenes with Lin, me and Andrew, we were surprised because for whatever reason, we hadn't clocked that part of the story was also this love story between these two men, this non-romantic love story," de Jesus, who plays Larson's best friend Michael in tick, tick.BOOM! said.
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