Word: sandvossã
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...Odds are Sandvoss??s mind was on other things when he arrived at Harvard as a first-year intending to groom himself for international business and study Mandarin Chinese. But luckily for the world’s Viking pool boy fans, he burned out on business fast...
Accepting his first and leading role in a “gay movie” was a potentially risky move for a novice actor, but it’s worked to Sandvoss??s advantage...
Director and screenwriter E. Jay Cox also wrote the script for Sweet Home Alabama, a movie even more at home with cliché that didn’t even make sense on its own terms. In Latter Days, he uses Sandvoss??s character to live out his nostalgia about his own homoerotic days as a Mormon missionary and self-described “little queer cowboy” growing up in Nevada...
...Sandvoss??s hands, the character’s lack of eloquence, part deliberate and part a function of the script’s weak points, becomes transformed into stumbling sweetness. And despite choppy pacing, awkwardly campy dialogue and a soundtrack that imposes emotional cues with all the subtlety of a tank, there’s plainly something there: genuine chemistry between Sandvoss and Ramsey, some sense that when they finally crumple in each other’s arms, it’s all for something much better than Hollywood-style inevitability...
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