Wilson Cruz

Wilson Cruz: (on being approached to play an HIV positive character on Noah's Arc)I didn't even hesitate... I was really excited and proud to be able to play that role... and I got to be cute... I got to be the one to kiss the boy, and kissing Christian Vincent is not a bad gig.

Wilson Cruz: I just don't think that we can sit back and be indifferent about HIV just because there are drugs that can sustain our life. Although people with HIV and AIDS aren't dying in the numbers they were 10 or 15 years ago, these drugs are not easy drugs to live on. They affect the way you live in daily life and for some people they don't work. So it's not over. It's still an emergency.

Wilson Cruz: I like to say Rickie [from "My So-Called Life"] is who I was when I was 15 years old, except for the fact that I didn't hang out in the girls bathroom and didn't wear eyeliner... He had a much more interesting fashion sense as well.

Wilson Cruz: (on his preference between TV and film) I prefer to work. Here's the thing. I just prefer to do interesting projects. I don't really differentiate between the two mediums. At this point television has become so good that it's like making little movies…I don't really have a preference. It's always about the stories and the character. On TV, it's really fun to take a character and watch that journey happen week after week…And I think also you're given some freedom in that…And on a film you have a fixed amount of time and you know exactly what the middle and end are going to be…I don't come to them any differently than I do the other.

Wilson Cruz: (on the difficulty of being a Latino actor) I think it's hard being a Latino anything, but I mean that in a good way. I think it's the challenges that makes us who we are. I think there are challenges that are inherent in being a person of color within this industry. There are very few roles that are written specifically for Latinos, unless you are in jail, a drug dealer, a gang member, or hooligan of some sort.