There’s something special about Captain Jack Harkness of the British show Torchwood. Is it that he can’t die and never ages? Is it that he spends his days tracking down aliens with a crack team of ex-cops and specialists? No, it’s probably that Captain Jack is dead sexy, sports an American accent and snogs boys and girls alike.
“It’s wonderful playing the romantic Jack,” says John Barrowman. The actor straddles all kinds of divides; besides being half American and half British, he’s an openly gay man playing one of TV’s most prominent bisexuals. “I get to portray a person on television that I would want to look up to, if I was a kid growing up in America.” Barrowman was also a West End song-and-dance man before becoming a sci-fi alien hunter—he currently judges singing-competition reality shows and is considering a concert series in Las Vegas. “I’d like to be bicoastal,” he puns. Wouldn’t we all? “You can be! You just have to say yes!
