A Sin star Nathaniel Hall revealed that he found love in a lockup with his partner Sean Taylor.
Appearing on Lorraine on Thursday, the 34-year-old actor, who plays Donald Bassett in the hit series set in the 1980s, has fled about his relationship and how medicine means he can’t Give John HIV.
Nathaniel first contracted HIV when he had sex at the age of 16 and discussed the ‘stigma’, as well as medical advances surrounding the virus.
Loved-up: Sin Sin star Nathaniel Hall discovers he was in a lockup with his partner Sean Taylor
Commenting on his relationship, the actor said: ‘I really found locking love. I am receiving medication so my viral load is insecure which means I cannot pass on the virus.
‘My partner Sean is still HIV negative and will also be taking HIV medication which will greatly help him get HIV.
‘The extent to which we have come is amazing … I was judged about seven years into effective medicine, I look at some of the characters on [It’s A Sin ] and think, “Gosh, if I had been born a few years before my life could have been very different”.
Smitten: Appearing on Lorraine on Thursday, the 34-year-old actor, who plays Donald Bassett in the hit series set in the 1980s, fled about his relationship
From award-winning multi-BAFTA writer Russell T Davies, It’s A Sin follows the story of the 1980s, the story of AIDS, and records the joy and heartbreak of a group of friends over a decade in which everything.
Nathaniel spoke of his own experience and how he had not told his family about his judgment for 15 years because there was ‘a lot of shame and self-stigma’.
He said: ‘I came out at 16 as gay and they are very supportive but that doesn’t show the power of HIV stigma and I found it very difficult to say anything.
Speaking out: Nathaniel contracted HIV the first time he had sex at the age of just 16 and discussed the stigma as well as medical advances surrounding the virus
‘While I was physically fit it affected my mind.’
After a decade of struggling with alcohol and drugs, he turned his life around in 2017 and began working as an activist to raise awareness and reduce stigma surrounding HIV.
In 2019 he starred at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in his one-man show First Time, in partnership with HIV Scotland, which, together with the UK government, is aiming for the DA’s goal of transmissions new HIV by 2030.
Around the same time, he told his family about his HIV status, choosing to write a letter before they came to watch the show.
As for his family’s response when he told them, he told Lorraine: ‘I was very pregnant, I wrote a letter to my mum and dad and sisters, I got some messages and my mum came to see me. the next day.
‘I know my sister will send me a message because when I do these interviews she says “sorry for the terrible response”.
His story: Nathaniel talked about his own experience and how he didn’t tell his family about his judgment for 15 years because there was ‘a lot of shame and self-stigma’
Since the show began, it has inspired the highest number of people to get tested for HIV and Nathaniel explained how he decided to accept who he was ‘led to something magical’ on stage.
He told Lorraine: ‘For a long time the embarrassment affected my career, when I decided to turn the script around and tell everyone and say it out loud, something magical happened to me when I went on stage, it was so well received that it was awesome.
‘I think when you live in reality people catch on. ‘
Nathaniel appears alongside a star team in It’s A Sin on Channel 4. All five programs are available on All 4.
With Olly Alexander, a forward player of Years and Years, along with a group of rising stars and celebrities, including Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry and Neil Patrick Harris, he was universally praised by fans.
Davies, the writer and producer behind Queer As Folk, revived Doctor Who and Cucumber in 2005, loosely based on It’s A Sin on what happened to him in the 1980s.
He spent hours chatting with childhood friend Jill Nalder, an actor, relative and activist who lived in London for ten years and is played by Lydia West in the play.
Moving: From award-winning multi-BAFTA writer Russell T Davies, It’s A Sin follows the story of the 1980s, the story of AIDS, and records the joy and heartbreak of a group of friends
Real life Jill also appears, playing Lydia’s mother in titles four and five.
Davies Alexander as the show’s main protagonist threw Ritchie Tozer, an 18-year-old from an ignorant, unloving house on the Isle of Wight who throws his head into London life, soon befriending Jill and three other and rent their flat, with love Palace pink.
The team of young talent is backed by a series of veterans screen stars, including Keeley Hawes and Shaun Dooley as Ritchie’s parents, Stephen Fry as BP’s girlfriend on Rosce (Omari Douglas) and Neil Patrick Harris as his mentor another, Colin quietly.
Praise: It’s A Sin has received a lot of praise since it started on Channel 4 last month