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Latter Day Success
Maybe it was beginner’s luck. Fresh out of Harvard, having swooped headlong into the pit of motion picture dreams that is Los Angeles, Steve J. Sandvoss ’02 stood in front of a casting agent for his very first Hollywood audition—and got the part.
In the recently released niche hit Latter Days, Sandvoss stars as an earnest Mormon missionary forced out of the closet when he falls in love with an L.A. gym queen. That date of the audition, his inexperience—both in Los Angeles and in film—worked in his favor.
“The personality in the film is new to L.A. and very naive and wide-eyed, and I probably was that,” he recalls. “I didn’t really know what I was doing. I had one friend in town and I was crashing there, driving my mom’s aged station wagon. That might have helped.”
Sandvoss is no longer so unworldly, if he ever was so. The largely glowing reviews of his performance in Latter Days and the film’s several audience awards at gay and woman loving woman film festivals around the country own rapidly transformed him into a presence in young Hollywood. He’s shopping around a script and about to initiate shooting a bigger-budget film, about which he will only say that one of its e
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MORNING GOODS — You’ll realize Steve Sandvoss from Latter Days, where he played a closeted gay Mormon missionary with a thing for his neighbor. But why focus on his acting abilities when we can top the superficial route?
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In those days one had to reckon basically with American, French, and Italian cinema (with a few token British and Polish items thrown in). But since then we have become attentive of important movies from Africa, Russia, China, India, Iran and many other countries. Moreover, mainstream Hollywood products cannot be ignored, if only because they are the basis of so much popular identity. And there is the massive flood of the Indie movies.
Today, in instruction to be a accurate film expert, one would have to watch at least three items a day—easy enough with Netflix and other services. Yet I have too many other things to undertake to submit myself to this discipline—or slef-indulgence. So from time to second, I attempt to track away the clouds of ignorance, sector by sector.
The latest sector addressed is recent low-budge gay movies. There are five I would recommend.
LATTER DAYS
The most unassuming (and presumably the cheapest
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Latter Days didn't complete his acting life completely---he's been doing bit roles, short production and supporting roles constantly (if erratically) ever since. True, that doesn't always put food on the table, but a intelligent and sensitive man like him probably needs to keep skilled outlet in his life to stop him going batshit, especially if he's now stuck operational farms in the conservative provinces. It is a treat to see him onscreen, and he seems sweet, relatable, down-to-earth, thoughtful and funny, as well as emotive and yes, gorgeous in a pretty and blushing yet rugged way.
Here's one he did about 3 years after LD, Waning Moon. It's well-written and tense but a quick and fascinating watch. Steve cries and there's a lot of gasping and tears generally (v. indie horror). The twist isn't all that hard to figure out but stylishly executed and unflinchingly explored, and I love the interplay between the two leads, as it's unclear if they're telling the truth about their feelings for one another (SLIGHT SPOILER: Sandvoss' character claims not to care all that much about Kartheiser's, despite his self-sacrificing actions and persistence in keeping watch over him, and the same g