Tuesday Talent: Jon Prescott from the Advocate August 2010
Howl 's Jon Prescott 8.29.2010 By Michael Martin The blow job scene is what people want to know about,' says Jon Prescott, referring to his onscreen tryst with James Franco in the new film Howl. Since he mentioned it... 'We shot a couple of takes. The directors liked where it was going, so they told me, 'Don't make it so easy for him.' So I didn't, telling him, 'Go ahead, push me down!' A little more tension developed in that take.' Tense foreplay with James Franco aside, Howl , the biopic of beat legend Allen Ginsberg offers an intriguing mix. Written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ( The Celluloid Closet , The Times of Harvey Milk ), the film is split into three intermingling sections. One portrays Ginsberg's development as a writer-poet in 1950s San Francisco. Animated sequences illustrate his landmark 1956 poem Howl . His prosecution for obscenity after publishing the poem is also shown in courtroom scenes. As Ginsberg, F...
