Jse Williams on playg a gay character 'Take Me Out' |

Contents:

• STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'
• JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT

STT ELLIS TALKS ABOUT THE BROADWAY GAY-THEMED BASEBALL PLAY 'TAKE ME OUT'

For all the bety of a well-executed h and n and the ceremony of a home n, there is also the off-the-field snipg, a hateful Twter rant and an ocsnal work one hand, Take Me Out is the story of Mason Marzac (aka Marz, played by Jse Tyler Fergon), a gay fancial adviser whose volvement the re cint has led him, to fall love wh the game. Avery on Grey's Anatomy, who makg his Broadway but), the gay superstar and a person of lor who out the closet and the mayhem that rults. Homophobia is ont and center.

He's a homophobe. You're tght to be a racist; you're tght to be homophobic.

Stori on tribalism, homophobia, hate speech hate crim lead the daily news feed, not to mentn the Twtersphere. His cisn to open up about his sexualy sparks a firtorm of homophobia and racism the sport, particularly his own locker room.

JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT

But Williams is also engagg wh another proment topic of discsn — whether straight actors should play gay characters. He don't nsir himself part of the gay muny, and he's stgglg wh his own inty and sense of awarens there.

You were talkg about the inty issu that the play wrtl wh, and your character, Darren, has two big thgs that he's alg wh terms as a biracial baseball player who out as gay. Dealg wh tolerance and and the racism and homophobia that e up the play, do you have to parse the nuanc between those two thgs or is all one big meltg pot of horrible people? Their fictnal team is known as the Empir, a major league baseball club on their way to the world seri who fd themselv stgglg to keep their eye on the ball after biracial Black star player Darren Lemmg — Jse Williams his Broadway but — publicly announc he’s gay.