The Japan Times gets up close and personal with director John Cameron Mitchell and actress Sook-Yin Lee about the sexiest film of 2007
At film festivals around the globe, people have rushed to catch a glimpse of, and possibly chat with, the director and star who made the movie "Shortbus" — the do-all, end-all sex fest extravaganza of the year.
Certainly, this film is likely to be the first time audiences anywhere have seen three gay men singing "The Star Spangled Banner" into a particular bodily orifice of one another during a bout of love-making. Unconventional, to say the least. The film began in 2004 with a series of auditions, followed by a workshop where artists and actors lived, ate and slept together over a 5-week period. Director John Cameron Mitchell (who became a cause celebre when his 2001 film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" — about a transgender rock singer — developed a cult following) and his leading lady, Canadian actress/DJ Sook-Yin Lee, say they have been inundated with compliments about the film.