James Scully showed some love to his man Julio Torres yesterday, celebrating the Los Espookys and Problemista star’s 37th birthday! Scully, an actor known for his roles in shows like Heathers and You, celebrated his boyfriend’s birthday by posting pictures of the two of them to his Instagram Stories.
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The photos show Scully and Torres arm in arm on a boat, and then hugging in an infinity pool as the sun sets behind them.
Happy birthday to Torres, who’s pandemic-delayed film Problemista, co-starring Tilda Swinton, Greta Lee, Catalina Saavedra, RZA, and Scully, will be coming out this year on March 1!
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Scully first started talking about his relationship with Torres back in 2022 when he was doing press for Fire Island, in which he played Charlie, the love interest for Bowen Yang’s character Howie.
He mentioned the relationship on the July 1, 2022 episode of Homophilia with Dave Holmes and Matt McConkey, and also in an interview with Leo Magazine in June of that year. In that interview, Scully was asked to name who his role model in the film industry was.
“My boyfriend, Julio,” he answered. “There is a person who has made a career for himself in the entertainment industry pretty much entirely on his own terms. He is so utterly uninterested in what other people expect of him, and way more concerned about what he knows he should expect of himself. He makes art because it is important to him, not because it’s easy or lucrative, and that’s reflected in the work he puts out.”
Scully added, “He is also deeply disenchanted by all of the things we’re told are supposed to be important to us — status, power, wealth. Those things are only interesting to him as tools to help the people in his community succeed. He has made so much happen by trusting his imagination and not being afraid to fail, and he shares the bounty of that success so generously with everyone in his life. Any time I feel myself getting sucked into the vortex of vanity and narcissism and classism that this industry can be, I try to imagine what Julio would do, and I suddenly recognize that so little of that stuff matters!”
How romantic!
