[Encounter to be found in the winter issue of the têtu· magazine, on sale at your newsstand or by subscription.] Disappointment for Boots fans: the Netflix series’ season 2 has just been canceled. A few weeks ago we had met actor Miles Heizer, who plays Cameron, the gay hero of the show described by the Pentagon as a “woke trash”.
Although he hasn’t kept the punctuality of Marine training camps, Miles Heizer has kept the humility. Fifteen minutes late to our appointment, apparently fallen out of bed, with tousled hair and eyes not quite open, the 31-year-old actor apologizes: “I am mortified, I’m usually ultra-punctual!” We hesitate to humiliate him in return by barking at him as American military instructors like to do, but we figure it’s too soon for that joke.
Added this autumn to Netflix’s catalog, the series Boots, inspired by Greg Cope White’s autobiography titled The Pink Marine, tells how Cameron, a young homosexual, decides in 1990 to join the Marines. At the time, being gay in the American military was absolutely forbidden. To understand this character, the blue-eyed blond – whom we had already noticed in the series Parenthood and 13 Reasons Why – did not have to search far: after a teenage life in the closet, he never hid his homosexuality again, not even to protect his career. Perhaps because he is stubborn? “I’m a Taurus, so that’s what we’re supposed to be, he notes. It might also be why this interview had to happen!”
- A role as a soldier, was that on your career wishlist?
Certainly not! [Laughter.] I think I landed the role because we enter this hyper-masculine world through a queer perspective. If that hadn’t been the case, they probably wouldn’t have hired me to play an ordinary soldier.
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Sophie Brennan