After 'Tom Swift' buted at the begng of Pri Month, seri star Tian Richards is reflectg on the prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead character.
Contents:
- 'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
- HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
- STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)
- A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
- FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE
'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a * tom swift gay in the books *
The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a new sci-fi mystery drama that expands the “Nancy Drew” universe on The by “Nancy Drew” shownners Noga Land and Melda Hsu Taylor and “Empire” wrer Cameron Johnson, “Tom Swift, ” which premier Tuday, follows the vilishly charmg ventor (played by Tian Richards) who is scribed as a young man “wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth” who many men would kill to be — or be wh. “I thk the spiratn for me om the fact that I’ve jt never seen a Black gay billnaire onscreen before, and I really wanted to see one.
HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
* tom swift gay in the books *
Assistant, Barclay (voiced by LeVar Burton), whose sights and tough love have been a nstant throughout his an executive producer who is both Black and openly gay, Johnson said he wanted to create a show that not only felt thentic to his own experienc but also felt universal.
“And the same way, [wh] ‘Tom Swift, ’ you may not be gay nor Black nor a billnaire … but you might regnize the fay dynamics and the prsure that we experience om our parents and the bonds that we build wh people who we tst — jt agast the backdrop of a really thentilly Black world.
”The rponsibily of playg one of work televisn’s first Black gay lead characters isn’t lost on Richards, whose actg creds clu the films “Burn, ” “Dumpl’” and “A Bad Moms Christmas.
STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)
The new CW seri, ‘Tom Swift,’ featur Tian Richards the leadg role. Now, many fans of the seri are wonrg if Tian and Tom are gay. * tom swift gay in the books *
“For Tom to be somebody who’s out, gay, Black, rich and has a darker sk tone — all the thgs that we never get to see look like this — that is so important for people to see, ” pecially STEM, he said. “And the versn of that is, everybody knows you’re gay, you’ve said you’re gay, but they jt ignore you and ntue to try to ph you a different directn. “What I particularly love about The CW is that, the wrg of , they never asked to dial back or make ls gay, ” Johnson said.
A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
The new TV seri "Tom Swift" is about a Black, gay billnaire. Utah Sen. Mike Lee is gog to hate . * tom swift gay in the books *
“That is gog to be really excg and betiful and h, bee I don’t know that we get to see a love story like this wh a Black gay man at the center of as the object of sire that much, pecially one set a world of sci-fi.
FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE
CW seri prents Swift as “Black, gay Iron Man’ * tom swift gay in the books *
The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV.
Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth.