'When you’ve had a love like Michael and Kit had, you don’t ever stop saying goodbye. Because the person never actually leaves you,' writes kpfallon
, which expands to wide release this weekend. He watched as Parsons, acting as him, held Kit’s hand as he passed away in a tear-jerking hospital death scene. Now, doing more press in support of the movie, he's having to talk about it all—and say goodbye—again.
It’s been five more years since then, and Ausiello has devoted much of that time to producing the film version of—which is to say, again telling Kit’s story. I ask him if his relationship to that grief and to Kit’s memory has changed at all. We do it for the fun of the first part of romance: the getting over insecurities, like maybe you have an outrageous collection of Smurfs memorabilia or maybe you were still closeted . But real love is moving past that—and past annoyances, like smoking too much weed, drinking too much, emotional infidelity, distance, work distractions, or diminishing passion. Those are all the things that are incredibly human, that all don’t matter whenI can barely get through typing that without crying.
“One time I sat next to Frances McDormand at a dinner for a Golden Globes thing—that’s the only time we’ve been together for anything or spoken,” he says. “But we were there for a long time. One of the topics that came up was adapting material. She said that she felt like things that don’t necessarily succeed in their original genre are the best things to take and try again, if the story itself is good, in another genre.
Throughout the years, they battled demons, separately and together. Michael worked too much, and drank a lot. Kit had an affair. They saw a couple’s therapist together. At one point, they separated and lived in different apartments. But none of that mattered when Kit received his diagnosis. Michael was going to be there. It wasn’t even a question.
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