The photographer has barely walked away to find his shot when Josh Thomas blurts out, “I’ve kissed him before”, which is not how many interviews begin. “I had to tell you,” he says, “for the shock value.”
It turns out that Thomas and our photographer Jackson Gallagher, who also acts, had a threesome in Please Like Me, Thomas’s much-loved ABC dramedy about the misadventures of a young gay man called Josh. Thomas himself wrote the threesome scene, in which Gallagher’s character is noticeably not attracted to him but wants to sleep with Josh’s boyfriend. It is in keeping with Thomas’s particular sense of humour that he would write a sex scene in which no one really wants him there – but as in much of his comedy, a funny story comes before self-preservation.
