“He was a man full of desire, full of humanity, and that comes through in his queer longing,” director Andrew Rossi told The Post.
“He was a man full of desire, full of humanity, and that comes through in his queer longing and in his search for spiritual meaning,” the series director Andrew Rossi told The Post. Patrick McMullanGould didn’t so much enter into Warhol’s life as Warhol willed him into it. It was April 1981, and Warhol, then 52, was still reeling from his breakup with Jed Johnson.
“They really were in love,” Jed’s twin brother, Jay Johnson, says in the series, confirming that the relationship was sexual. “They shared a bedroom.” Jed gave Warhol a sense of stability he craved after the traumatic shooting and the destructive chaos of the 1960s. They adopted two dogs, and Jed decorated their new home, launching a new career as an interior designer in the process.
Warhol began courting Gould with a vengeance, sending extravagant bouquets of roses to his office at Paramount. He even offered their mutual friend, the photographer Christopher Makos, a fancy watch if he could get Gould to be his boyfriend. “I guess he never got loved,” Makos says in the series. “Because I didn’t get my watch.”
Around 1985, Warhol began working on his massive series of 100 works based on Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” Jessica Beck, curator at the Warhol Museum in Warhol’s native Pittsburgh, said that the paintings seem to directly reference Gould and the AIDS crisis, particularly the ones with body builder imagery and one with a big “C,” a reference to what Warhol called “the gay cancer.”
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