Glenn Close Recalls Revelation in On-Screen Gay Kiss
Damages star Glenn Close revisited her favorite film roles from her impressive career for an article on The Daily Beast. Close recalled in detail the “revelatory” moment she experienced while playing Washington State National Guard colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence. Close portrayed the famous former officer who sues after being discharged for revealing her homosexuality.
“That’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done,” Close said of the 1995 TV movie, “because Margarethe Cammermeyer was around during the shoot. She was an exacting soldier, very strict about uniform, and how you salute — everything.
“It was tragic that she was the one kicked out of the Army eventually, because she was homosexual,” Close said of the U.S. army’s much-contested ban on gays.
“But the thing that stayed with me — I’ve known many, many gay people, and they’re some of my best friends. We all went through the AIDS scourge, I’ve lost many friends, and I’ve always been highly sympathetic to the plights of gays, what they’ve had to deal with. But the scene at the end, although I was very open-minded and supportive, when Judy Davis and I had to kiss at the end, I really felt that for 30 seconds, maybe a minute, what it really, really felt like to be attracted to my own gender,” the seasoned star concluded.
“It was kind of revelatory for me, a real frisson moment,” Close revealed. “I’ll never forget it.”
You can read about Close’s 12 other most memorable roles here: 13 favorite movie roles.
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