Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey’s Love Affair Is Put to the Test in New “Fellow Travelers” Trailer
The Showtime limited series is set to premiere on Paramount+ and Showtime streaming networks on Oct. 27
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Matt Bomer (left) as Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller, Jonathan Bailey as Tim, Allison Williams as Lucy, Jelani Alladin as Marcus and Noah J. Ricketts as Frankie on 'Fellow Travelers'Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are steaming things up on Fellow Travelers.
Showtime dropped a new trailer for its limited series featuring the pair starting a dangerous love affair at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare — a period in American history when LGBTQ+ Americans were prohibited from serving in the Federal Government.
The trailer starts off showing Bomer’s character Hawkins Fuller, who works behind the scenes in politics, being interrogated by government officials and taking a lie detector test about his personal life and affiliations. The interrogation includes questions regarding if he was having an affair with Tim Laughlin, played by Bailey.
The two appear to get hot and heavy during various moments and share deep discussions about their evolving relationship in several scenes together. Other clips show Bomer courting Allison Williams’ character Lucy, dancing with her and giving her gifts.
“You’re such a d--- good liar,” Jelani Alladin’s character Marcus tells Bomer’s character in the trailer.
There are also multiple scenes showing several fights outside what appears to be a bar between characters as the words, “Love is dangerous,” flashes on the screen. Bomer’s character can also be seen trying to keep his secrets as others close in on it. In one shot, he closes the blinds to his building as others try to spy on him and in another looks ominously down a corridor.
“We lie about who we sleep with,” Bomer can be seen telling Bailey who replies, “It’s not who we sleep with, it’s who we love.”
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Jonathan Bailey (left) as Tim Laughlin and Matt Bomer as Hawkins in 'Fellow Travelers'They could be seen sharing several more kisses across different settings and times, with Bailey’s character Tim describes Bomer’s Hawkins as “my great consuming love.” Nonetheless, it appears several factors will try to tear them apart, evident by the trailer concluding with Bomer trying not to set off the lie detector during his interrogation as he’s being told to “answer the question.”
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The story — based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon — follows Hawkins as he avoids emotional entanglements until he meets Tim, “a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith.” The two start a romance “just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’” according to a synopsis of the series.
The pair, along with Alladin’s Marcus, Williams’ Lucy and Noah J. Ricketts’ Frankie, is filmed over the course of four decades as “they cross paths through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s while facing obstacles in the world and within themselves,” according to a synopsis for the limited series.
The show is executive produced by Bomer, Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), Robbie Rogers (All American) and Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (American Crime Story: Versace) executive produced and also directed the first two episodes.
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Fellow Travelers will make its streaming debut Friday, Oct. 27, on Paramount+ with Showtime before making its broadcast debut that Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime's regular programming. It will also premiere on Paramount+ on Oct. 27 for Canada, and on Oct. 29 for viewers in the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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