The Shards star Igby Rigney and Homer Gere have peeled back the curtain on how they built their on-screen chemistry. 

On 5 August, horror enthusiasts were finally treated to the premiere of Ryan Murphy's new queer slasher series. 

Based on Bret Easton Ellis' autofictional horror novel of the same name, The Shards is set amid "the vivid backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles" and follows Bret (Rigney), Susan Reynolds (Kaia Gerber), Robert Mallory (Homer Gere), Hayes Warner (Debbie Schaffer), and Thom Wright (Graham Campbell) as they navigate their final year of high school, "identity, sex, jealousy, obsession and the dangers lurking beneath the surface of American adolescence."

The official logline reads: "At its centre is Bret, an aspiring writer and keenly observant teenager whose reality begins to unravel with the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic new student, Robert Mallory. Transferring in just before his senior year, Robert's appearance coincides with the growing terror of The Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers across the city."

Ahead of the show's premiere, Rigney, Gere and Warner spoke with Gay Times about all things The Shards – including Bret and Robert's ambiguous and intense connection.