"In his latest " Plainclothes," the Sundance winner written and directed by first-feature filmmaker Carmen Emmi, he plays a closeted family man who sparks an affair with an undercover cop, played by Tom Blyth. In the 1997-set drama, Lucas (Blyth) is a police officer tasked with baiting men for a bathroom stall hookup in one of those depressing Malls of America, only to arrest them, caught not in the act but just before it."
"In this New Queer Cinema-inspired drama that doubles as a coming-out story and a romance - Lucas is feeling a new flush of things for Andrew that might not be totally reciprocated - Tovey gives a marvelously restrained performance as a closeted man who may have plenty of furtive gay experience already, but he has more in the way of secrets."
"Tovey, though, is perhaps best known for his role as video-game entrepreneur Kevin in creator Michael Lannan's HBO series "Looking," which ran for two seasons between 2014 and 2015 and was followed by a TV movie directed by Andrew Haigh. The "All of Us Strangers" filmmaker also executive-produced the groundbreaking Bay Area-set show about gay best friends and their ordinary lives, and directed many episodes."
Plainclothes, a Sundance-winning film written and directed by first-feature filmmaker Carmen Emmi, is set in 1997 and centers on Andrew, a closeted family man played by Russell Tovey, and Lucas, an undercover police officer played by Tom Blyth. Lucas baits men in mall bathroom stalls to arrest them, while secretly questioning his own sexuality after meeting Andrew. The film draws on New Queer Cinema influences, functioning as both a coming-out story and a romance, with Tovey delivering a marvelously restrained portrayal of a man with furtive experiences and deeper secrets. Tovey previously starred as Kevin on HBO's Looking, a Bay Area-set series with a devoted fanbase.
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