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His inability to be fake as a person translates directly into his acting. There is nothing extraneous or false about Raúl, and he brought a grounded, honest integrity to the character that absolutely no one else could have. He’s also just innately magic on screen and has that ‘it’ factor.

Jonathan Groff on his Looking co-star Raúl Castillo

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Raúl Castillo on 'We the Animals,' Latino Roles, and More
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Your character in Looking is the opposite of Paps, so stable and emotionally mature that he becomes the moral center of the story. When I interviewed Andrew Haigh earlier this year about Lean on Pete, he said he prefers passive characters to active ones because he thinks most of life is reacting to things, not making things happen. Were you conscious of playing a more passive character than usual when you played that role?

I don't think so. Andrew, like Jeremiah, has such a way of making you feel like a collaborator. Sometimes [as an actor] you come and you punch in, you punch out, you do your lines but nobody's getting personal. But Andrew was all about getting personal. He was all about us being vulnerable and ourselves. He didn't throw too much at me. He let me find the character in a beautiful way. He has a way of trusting his actors and making you feel like you have ownership of the character. And the writing was just so good. My character was always reacting to [laughs] Jonathan [Groff]'s character's sort of colorful personality. Jonathan was such a great scene partner, all I had to do was respond to him. I just had to listen and respond.

Which is actually just what Andrew was talking about in terms of passivity.

Yeah. Totally.

Is Richie [in Looking] still the role you're recognized for the most?

Oh yeah. Definitely. Sometimes people project their feelings of the role onto you. When my mom met Jonathan after the first season, she was angry at him. [laughs] She said, “You hurt my son!” I said, “Mom, that's Jonathan. That's not Patrick!” I got really lucky because my character draws such tender feelings out of people. I think a lot of people connected to that character because he does have a real strong backbone and he's really clear about what he wants. He symbolizes, for a lot of people, maybe what they want or what they want to be. I don't know what it is, but when I meet people who are fans of the show, I have such warmth and tenderness projected at me because of that character.

Do you feel like you're more of a sex symbol in the gay community than the straight world at this point?

[laughs] Yeah yeah yeah. I'm always surprised when I meet fans of the show, who are so loyal. We weren't Game of Thrones, but people really cared about the show and the characters. I think it had something to say about our culture. It was maybe perhaps a couple years ahead of the times. It got a lot of flak. It couldn't do everything, and I think there were a lot of expectations for the show, because it was representing a community that was underserved. I think if it came out today, it'd have a different kind of reception.

Do you feel like you're entering a new phase of your career? It seems like you have a lot of work coming out this year or next.

Looking helped to open a lot of doors for me. Richie, when all is said and done, is a romantic lead. There's not a lot of romantic leads out there for Latino actors, and it allowed the industry to sort of see me as an everyman. I did this film last fall called El Chicano, which is playing at the LA Film Festival next month. I'm El Chicano. It's the first Latino superhero film. It's my first time being number one on a call sheet. I texted Jonathan because I thought of him a lot while I was doing it. He taught me a lot about what it is to be number one on a call sheet, to lead a cast and to rally everyone around you, how you can do that through your grace and your warmth and your work.

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alexisforte5: These two dream boat chorus boys just had birthdays 🎁 to celebrate here’s a video we made for my other favorite guy @dannyglicker. As a side note, Raúl and I aren’t great at harmonizing we’re just here for the food and good times. Happy New Birth-year Jonathan and @murray__bartlett ❤️🎂🎈”Auld Lang Syne" #tomanymoregoodtimes

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