The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

With goats, we're mimicking that natural progression of things.

It was a natural progression for Jude and I -- that's where we started off.