Josh O'Connor in talks to star in his fourth gay film

Josh O’Connor is in talks to play gay again.

O’Connor, who starred in Francis Lee’s 2017 film God’s Own Country, where he played a gay farmworker, is currently in talks to star in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming drama Separate Rooms.

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by late Italian writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli and tells the story of an Italian writer named Leo who is mourning the loss of his boyfriend.

According to Variety, Leo’s “passionate romance with a shy German musician named Thomas is marked by different forms of separation.” The book is divided into three parts, covering the relationship between the men that starts in Paris and travels throughout Europe over the next three years before Thomas is diagnosed with an illness that leads to his death. The book’s author died of AIDS-related complications in 1991 at the age of 36.

While sources say that the deal has yet to be finalized, O’Connor is already studying Italian for the role.

If O’Connor gets the role, it will be his fourth prominent role in a queer movie since 2017. In that year, he starred in the British gay drama God’s Own Country.

O’Connor has also already worked with Guadagnino on the upcoming tennis love triangle drama Challengers opposite Zendaya and Mike Faist. In that film, he plays a tennis star who, along with his best friend, both fall in love with another tennis star. It looks like the love triangle will go all three directions.

O’Connor is currently also filming the queer movie The History of Sound with Paul Mescal. In that film, O’Connor and Mescal play two lovers who set out to record the lives, voices, and music of their countrymen during World War I as they go through an experience that will change them forever.

Honestly, we are not mad. O’Connor is a great actor, and as long as he keeps approaching queer roles with the respect he did on God’s Own Country, he can keep playing gay as long as he wants!