''I think it will probably upset the purists. But one thing we wanted to make clear was that Sebastian was gay and that Charles although terribly fond of him is heading in another direction sexually.... Waugh had a very skilful way of skating over the sordid details so we can imagine what we like about them. This ambivalence was probably the result of his own sexual ambivalence.... The producers of the television version probably wanted to include such a scene back then. But that sort of thing was a lot more controversial in 1981 than it is today.... ''
Kevin Loader, producer of then new film adaptation of ''Brideshead Revisited'' that was published by a male author named Evelyn Waugh in 1945. The book's character Lord Sebastian Flyte has been revised to make him more overtly gay, but it has also be said that his teddy bear, Aloysius, will not be prominently featured in the new movie. A widely-seen TV series was aired in 1981 and made a star of Jeremy Irons. (Telegraph.co.uk)
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