![]() “The polymorphous nature of sexuality is much more prevalent than it was in the ’90s. ![]() “It’s almost like the world of my early movies actually caught up,” he says. This is a line that could easily have been delivered by an Araki character. Artists today are still gradually becoming comfortable with being publicly gay, or bisexual, or, as “Fantastic Beasts” actor Ezra Miller has said, “I don’t identify. For mainstream entertainment, not so much. The vibe of the show is, as Ulysses’ best friend Carly (Kelli Berglund) puts it, “I’m a millennial, so sexual fluidity is kind of like a requirement.”įor Araki, this is all old hat. Within the first minute of the pilot, we see Ulysses mid-coitus with a guy whose boyfriend comes home unexpectedly he also regularly fantasizes about being with Mirchoff’s character Ford, his straight roommate with a monogamy-phobic girlfriend (Roxanne Mesquida) - and finds himself in a literally fireworks-inducing hookup with Posey’s Gabriel, as well as a random tryst with a party girl (Cleopatra Coleman). But their fan base may be in for a surprise at the graphic nature of Araki’s candy-colored, sci-fi-tinged show. The cast of “Now Apocalypse,” anchored by Jogia, includes Beau Mirchoff (“Awkward”) and Tyler Posey (“Teen Wolf”) three actors well-known to younger viewers and each of whom has millions of Instagram followers. “I really empathize with young people just trying to figure out their s–t, which is the most interesting part of life.” Gregg Araki Getty Images Araki has directed episodes of The CW’s “Riverdale” and the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” among other shows. “In the mid-’90s I was much more nihilistic, and a lot of the churning emotion of those films is where my head was at that point,” he says. Araki co-wrote the series with 33-year-old sexpert Karley Sciortino, author of the “Slutever” blog.Īraki, 59, says he’s mellowed over the decades. Now, Araki’s coming to the small screen in series format with “Now Apocalypse” (Starz), his hallucinogenic, raunchy comedy about an LA stoner named Ulysses (Avan Jogia, “Victorious”), his existential dread, his friends and their complicated love lives and, possibly, predatory reptilian aliens. Gather round, kids, and hear about how in the 1990s, you had to seek out an arthouse theater to catch the release of a Gregg Araki movie.įilled with gorgeous young actors having wild sex and violent, drug-fueled adventures, films like “The Doom Generation” and “Nowhere” and “The Living End” were the fever dreams of a self-described “angry young punk rocker” auteur.
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