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Sometimes Looking Got a Little Too Real
The cast and creators of the beloved HBO half-hour put their most vulnerable experiences into the script.
A decade ago, in a very different San Francisco and a very different television landscape, Patrick Murray and his friends first stumbled onto HBO — literally, the pilot starts with Jonathan Groff ineptly cruising in a public park. Watch the Looking reunion, including Groff, Alvarez, Weedman, Lannan, and executive producer John Hoffman, with Castillo calling in over Zoom and special guest appearances by Tovey and Bartlett, in full below. In an oral history about the show, one of the things that came up, alongside John being the one who really wanted douching onscreen, was how much the characters started to mold around the actors.
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