Rogowski disliked the description of that film as a “gay movie,” preferring to think of it as a “story about love.” But Passages’ presentation of personal sexual and gender fluidity resonated with the actor, and you feel it in the freedom of his performance. Rogowski brilliantly-and devastatingly-took on a very different kind of queer character in the undersung Great Freedom, which was released in the US last year, playing a man imprisoned for his sexuality. This leads me to wonder about Tomas’s identity, and lack of labels. He wears these pieces when out with friends, or at parties, or “maybe also at a campsite-you never know.” He likes the feeling the clothes give him, creating “a little push” to stand out from the crowd. He took home some of Tomas’s most provocative garments, including a striking snakeskin leather jacket, and has since integrated them into his wardrobe. In some ways, he came out of Passages with a richer sense of self, as well as a better sense of his personal style. To inhabit a person as tricky and volatile as Tomas, Rogowski looked inward. And he wants to grow from that process each time. He wants to act so we react he wants to feel right along with his audience. All these years later, the basic takeaway from that interaction still applies. She smiled back in return.” He lights up at the memory. “Then I made the right gestures and I gave her a smile. “I was looking in the face of my mother, and I was trying to figure out what she would want,” he says. Rogowski fell in love with acting and got his first acting lesson in the same moment.
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