"I didn't realize how deeply I wanted to be part of telling a story like this."īig wedding Bang: Jim Parsons marries partner Todd Spiewak in New YorkĪfter 'Bros': Hollywood must keep making LGBTQ movies "We've seen these journeys in movies that deeply affected me as a young person, always around a straight couple," says Parsons. But this time it's a gay couple at the center of the story in the film, expanding nationwide in theaters Friday. "It's truly one of my favorite movies ever I've watched it many times," Parsons says of the best picture-winning drama about a woman (Debra Winger) contending with terminal cancer, her husband (Jeff Daniels) and her devoted, Houston-based mother (Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine).īut now Parsons, 49, is generating the drama – and the tears – producing and starring in "Spoiler Alert," which follows the full emotional trek of journalist Michael Ausiello and his husband Kit, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Growing up outside Houston, Jim Parsons loved watching (and rewatching) the 1983 weeper "Terms of Endearment." Watch Video: 'Spoiler Alert': Jim Parsons echoes 'Terms of Endearment' scene
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