Thanks to Went and the team at AUGUSTMAN MALAYSIA we are able to take a closer look at Went in the September 2014 issue.
On coming out when he did:
I came out to help call attention to what was happening to the gay community in Russia but I also came out because I was ready. ‘In my own time. In my own way.’ That’s one of my personal mottos. We should all have the freedom to move and grow and develop at our own pace. It just so happens that when the invitation came to go to Russia, I was in a place in my life where I was ready to make a public statement. The timing was right.”
On how his struggles with depression affected his writing:
On focusing on the present:
“You know to be honest, these days I don’t dwell too much on the past or the future. The present is much more interesting. I’m grateful for the jobs I’ve had but I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about them. Recently this guy came up to me and he was a big fan of Prison Break and he had all these questions about some plot point in Season Two. And I only had a vague recollection of what he was talking about. For him it was totally fresh because he’d just watched the show on DVD or whatever. But for me it was like, ‘We shot that stuff eight years ago,’ I don’t even remember my character’s middle name or if he had one.”
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"It's probably safe to say there's a part of me in every character I've ever played and everything I've ever written, dialed up or down several notches as required."
Thank you kindly dear Went!
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