Playing Antonio D’Amico, the longtime partner of designer Gianni Versace, had a deeply personal resonance for Ricky Martin, the singer said Thursday. To play D’Amico on FX’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” Martin said he tried to imagine what life was like for the men he’d dated before publicly coming out. “It was very important to let the world know that someone as powerful as Gianni Versace was in so much fear of coming out, and people around him were telling him, ‘Please don’t do that. “That happened to me.”As Martin prepared to shoot the scene in which Versace (played by Édgar Ramírez) first references D’Amico as his partner, he said he thought back on his life in the closet. “I started wearing the shoes of my ex-boyfriends, men that were with me while I was in the closet,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post June 08, 2018 22:07 UTC