Gay Actor Jonathan Groff Praised for Straight Role on Netflix's 'Mdhunter'

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Groff succsfully segu om a young gay man g of age on HBO's Lookg to a straight FBI agent chasg serial killers on Netflix's Mdhunter.

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THIS MDHUNTER STAR SAYS THERE'S ONE MAJOR PERK TO PLAYG A STRAIGHT MAN AS A GAY ACTOR

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About a seri of murrs of young men mted by Dean Corll and assisted by Henley (who was some sort of homosexual thrall to Corll), Wendy tak pretty quickly to the Holn Ford school of improvisatn. But later, when the team is battg psychologil explanatns back and forth, some of the agents characterize homosexualy as a viance, and Wendy has to ph back on assumptns that were jt begng to bee outdated. Set 1979, the send season of Mdhunter  at a cur perd the long timele toward gay civil rights.

GAY ACTOR JONATHAN GROFF PRAISED FOR STRAIGHT ROLE ON NETFLIX'S MDHUNTER

The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn had, until as recently as 1974, nsired homosexualy a mental disorr, and that would only be reflected the Associatn's Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM) a 1979 republishg. Watchg Wendy ph back agast Gregg, Tench, Ford, and their outdated opns on homosexualy, while matag her lm, clil meanor is yet another remr that Anna Torv is one of this show's great secret weapons.

Bee he's openly gay, Groff nfsed to Out that he was worried about beg typest. "Lookg was a huge al my evolutn as a person and as an actor bee ’s one thg to e out of the closet publicly, but ’s another thg to be so gay on TV, " he said.

"I watched the Tab Hunter documentary on Netflix, about the 1950s actor who was gay and closeted and set up on dat wh Natalie Wood. Groff talked wh TV Insir and explaed why he was drawn to this darker world, whether he thks much about beg a gay man playg a straight character, and how he and his fellow actors kept thgs light on the very dark and ser set.

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It never even occurred to me, bee even on Lookg [the HBO gay-centric seri which Groff starred om 2014-16] we had straight guys playg gay guys, and gay guys playg straight guys. I was havg sex onscreen wh people who were straight real life or gay real life, was so many different thgs and no one ever talked about the straight guys playg gay. Jonathan Groff is provg dienc will embrace openly gay actors playg sexually active heterosexual characters wh his much-praised role on Netflix's starrg as a gay man seekg romantic and reer fulfillment on HBO's acclaimed but short-lived Lookg, Groff is now gettg some of the bt reviews of his reer wh Mdhunter.

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“It’s about murr and ’s gay, what do you MEAN you don’t watch Mdhunter? For some reason I had assumed I wouldn’t get to The Gay Stuff™ until Season Two, but here we were.

GAY ACTOR JONATHAN GROFF PRAISED FOR STRAIGHT ROLE ON NETFLIX'S MDHUNTER

She do s gay, at least.

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Kay mak her feel out of ntrol, like she’s on a big gay roller aster, and on one hand she lik but the most sred part of her always has one eye lookg for an ex. They had Wendy g her homosexualy (feels weird g that word now but would have been what they ed back then) to bond wh a subject, only to later let the men she worked wh assume they ma up. They never ed homophobia agast her, not really.

Alongsi the upward trajectory of his reer, the Mdhunter star also ma headl after he me out as gay. “When I did Lookg, I was playg a gay character on a set wh a lot of gay people.

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Gay Actor Jonathan Groff Praised for Straight Role on Netflix's 'Mdhunter'.

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