Too Opinionated Interview #158: Thales Correa

Published: July 1, 2021, 6:15 p.m.

Today on Too Opinionated actor/director Thales Correa comes to visit.

Last year, Brazilian writer/director/actor Thales Corrêa (The Queer hit BATHROOM STALLS & PARKING LOTS—now streaming on Peacock; Cannes shorts MILVIO and PARENTS) was a member of the Second City Writing Program, where he co-developed the series concept Poly People with classmate lesbian writer Melissa Girard. Thales, in turn, engaged HIS fellow Brazilian production partner Anthony Moore, who, in the throes of a pandemic and unemployment-induced depression, saw the job as therapy and agreed to work on it right away.

That was in August 2020. Two-and-a-half SAG-AFTRA safety protocol-following, coffee-fueled production days later, the team wrapped principal photography on Poly People, a seven-episode mockumentary about the daily life of four people in a polyamorous relationship. Poly People employed 85% queer, female and POC identified people in front of and behind the camera. While each of the four main characters: non-binary-identifying Cuddelz (Corrêa); bisexual Abigail (Andrea Flowers); lesbian Lez (Ilona Kulinska): and hetero but curious Tucker (Moore) have different sexual identities, they fall in love and take one another as lovers and partners, and form a domestic unit.

What could possibly go wrong?

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