Lopez: “Any actor will tell you that most of their time is spent auditioning and looking for work, and every time an actor has an opportunity to even be seen by a casting director and/or a director, that’s a vital part of their career journey. I do think that the opportunity to be seen is what is lacking for so many queer artists, so it was important to me to open this up to as many LGBTQ+-identifying individuals as possible.
However, when it came to casting, I didn’t ask questions about who these people were themselves. The only question I knew I needed to ask was, ‘do I see these characters in you?’ That was fundamentally it. At the end of the day, what was most important to all of us, I think, is that we told this story because we all loved the story.”