“People think you’re living this glamorous life as an actor in L.A., but most of the time you’re in a 99-cent T-shirt stuck in a crummy apartment somewhere trying to get a role,” says the Dallas-born, Oakville-raised Casey. The rest is minor television history, considered by some fans to be one of the small screen’s steamiest gay sex scenes.Īnd that’s kind of been Casey’s career trajectory: a combination of luck, talent and absurdity that he has captured in his digital Funny or Die series Living in L.A. “I had to out-gay John Barrowman,” Casey said of his gay co-star, whose Torchwood character is bisexual. That other guy turned out to be star John Barrowman. “They kept asking me if I would be OK being intimate with another guy,” said Casey. Mostly because he hadn’t read the script. When Dillon Casey landed his first role in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood, he had no idea what he was getting into.