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Olympic Gold Medalist Tom Daley on His New Documentary, Being a ‘Sounding Board’ for Closeted Queer Athletes and Why Tom Holland Should Play Him in a Movie
Olympian Tom Daley talks about his new documentary, helping closeted gay athletes and why he'd cast Tom Holland to play him in a movie.
“There was this towering drag queen and all of these people just being free,” Daley, now 31, recalls on today’s episode of the “Just for Variety ” podcast. “I was like, ‘This world of being able to just be yourself and not worry about who’s watching was so like, oh my gosh.’ It was the first time that I went from being scared to being excited about coming out and being able to just care less about what other people think.” Daley’s life is chronicled in the new documentary, “Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds.” The film follows his childhood in the U.K., competing in several Olympics(he earned his lifelong dream of a gold medal in 2020), the death of his father when he was still a teen and his current life in Los Angeles, where he lives with his husband, Oscar winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and their two sons.
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