Rock Hudson: Dark And Handsome Stranger 2010

Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, providing the killer virus with a famous face amidst the American AIDS paranoia of 1985. 2010 is not only the 25th anniversary of his death, but would also have been his 85th birthday.

Who was the real Rock Hudson? Was he a kind of invented personality? Rock always said that his real-life reflected his movie life and vice versa. The film will investigate the many film roles Rock Hudson played, against the more intimate and private world of Roy Fitzgerald (the name Rock Hudson took after he was adopted by his step-father), uncovering and revealing what was happening behind the superficial scenarios and double values in Hollywood. Rock Hudson was a star doing a secret balancing act between private and public, between the heterosexual world of an obviously very male looking star and the dark side of forbidden sexuality as a closeted gay.