"Love Under The Olive Tree" had a subplot with one of the farm workers starting up a very, very subtle relationship with a bar owner. Shawn Roberts was the olive farm worker and Andrew Dunbar played the bar owner.
[quote]Another aspect of the project Hollingsworth found interesting was 'misconceived relationships', in particular, that of Nicole's best friend and co-worker Adam Caulfield (Shawn Roberts), whom while it's not directly addressed, might be gay. "I'd never seen that in any other scripts before," he said of the inclusive move. "It wasn't a comment one way or another about anything, or what kind of relationships are out there, and without shining a light on things just have something open and accepting. My character has preconceived notions about their relationship, so it wasn't just a side thing for the purpose of doing it and it furthered the storyline. I thought it was the most natural and authentic way of doing it. It services the story. I hope we see a lot more of that in future films and the cool thing is, it keeps you in suspense."
Various looks between the two, misunderstandings about who was dating who, a date to a barn dance and eventually a dinner for two laid out the budding romance.
Surprisingly, it wasn't terrible.
