![]() ![]() They grew up in Fresno, California, with a father who works in the prison system and a mother who refurbishes furniture. “I've always been like, ‘Oh, they're trying to find out if we're twins or not - or find out if we're boys.’” “People staring at us isn't something that's strange because that's happened our entire lives,” Seazynn says. She does the same thing when she encounters other twins. ![]() ![]() Being a twin, she says, means getting used to the fact that people are always trying to get inside your dynamic and understand what’s being said between you and your sibling. She is comfortable with pauses in a way that makes you desperate to know what she is thinking, and capable of saying plenty with just an arched eyebrow or some side eye. Meanwhile, Seazynn, who drove them to the park on her blood-red Buddy scooter, is more reserved, speaking up mostly to offer dry commentary on Railey’s answers. “I'm like, ‘Oh, is that hard to do? Is that not common?’” (When I joke that she sounds like Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Railey looks at me blankly, making me feel absolutely ancient.) “So many people would tell us, ‘You've never acted before, and now you're the leads of a TV show!’” Railey says. The gregarious Railey, with her curlier hair and cheek-to-cheek smile, never sounds anything but unfazed by her accidental TV stardom. Sitting across from the Gillilands at a picnic table in Los Angeles’ Sycamore Grove Park - a favorite hangout spot since they visited it for Dyke Day LA in June - their understated charisma is readily apparent. “It really seemed like we needed to find a unicorn - and we found two.” “In our search, we were just not finding twins that had the essence of Tegan and Sara or were both queer,” says DuVall. A nostalgic teen drama in the vein of My So-Called Life, High School tells the story of two sisters privately struggling with their identities in mid-’90s Calgary, and the way music eventually bridges the rift between them. But it is a testament to the X factor on display in those TikTok videos that the Gilliland sisters, 21, got the job anyway and will make their professional debut in High School, whose first four episodes premiere Oct. There was just one hurdle: Neither Railey nor Seazynn had acted or played music before. “I was just like, ‘Oh my God, I think these twins could play us.’” “There was a silliness and goofiness between the two of them that reminded me of the VHS footage we found of Sara and I,” says Tegan, who circulated the videos among her high school friends. Maybe it was fate, or maybe it was just her phone listening in on her talking about twins, but the algorithm started showing her Railey’s videos last spring. She and her own identical twin, Sara, who make up the acclaimed alt-pop duo Tegan and Sara, had published a memoir of their teen years in 2019 called High School that they were adapting into a television show with writer-director Clea DuVall. It’s as if the only reaction they really cared about was the one they got from each other. In other videos, she’d recruit her identical twin sister, Seazynn, for fit checks, lip-sync clips, and other trends or challenges that showcased an innocent hamminess: They were trying to be entertaining, sure, but without the polish or clear ambition of someone gunning to be a professional content creator. On TikTok, she’d often film herself from the front seat of her car, talking about what she bought for lunch that day or offering her thoughts on her favorite energy drinks. ![]() So if you want to cry some big gay tears, take your pick.Of all the viral-ish videos to launch a Hollywood career, the ones that changed Railey Gilliland’s life are surprisingly low-key. Jim Parsons stars as Ausiello, with the always-welcome Sally Field showing up as his mother-in-law. Then, on December 2, director Michael Showalter will follow up his Oscar-winning The Eyes of Tammy Faye with Spoiler Alert, an adaptation of Michael Ausiello's heartbreaking (though also admittedly quite funny) memoir about losing his husband to cancer. Good news for those of you who watched gay romantic comedies Fire Island and Bros and wished they were more sad! A duo of much more tragic gay love stories will be coming your way soon.įirst is Michael Grandage's My Policeman, otherwise known as "the other movie Harry Styles debuted at a film festival in September." Available to stream on Amazon Prime on November 4th, it's set in 1950s England and stars Styles as a closeted cop who falls in love with a museum curator (David Dawson), obviously much to the annoyance of his wife (Emma Corrin). ![]()
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