Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jse Williams was to the ongog bate over straight actors playg gay characters as he embarks on dog jt that Broadway's 'Take Me Out'
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- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
- JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
It's rare to see a gay relatnship between men shown on a televisn show of Grey's liber, and the normalcy and emotns showg the two's love for one another are rehg. Callie Torr' father to Seattle Grace wh the pastor of their church and a plan to nvce his dghter she isn't gay this emotnal episo that shows a real look at how people of the LGBTQ+ muny n be treated by their own loved on. After she shouts at her father that he n't "pray away the gay, " Callie tells Arizona she don't need a fay who's not gog to accept her for who she is.
" Kyle explas to Callie how all he wanted was to make the day feel special, as the state of Washgton didn't regnize gay marriage as a real marriage. Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired. Locker room: Take Me Out is set largely wh the locker room of a Major League Baseball team, wrten by Richard Greenburg, wh the origal Broadway play wng Bt Play at the 2003 Tony Awards Comg out: The play follows Williams' character, a star center fielr for the Empir, who out as gay'I'm told s que sane, 's a first and I have nothg to pare to and I wont be sred of anythg after this that's for sure, ' Williams said.
' Three: @TamarBraxtonHer add 'For sure Jsie Williams has three legs and one n for sure cure the ND ae on my face'The play follows Williams' character, a star center fielr for the Empir, who out as gay. 'Facg some hostile teammat and ght iendships, Darren is forced to ntend wh the challeng of beg a gay person of lor wh the nf of a classic Amerin stutn, ' the scriptn adds.
JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
But Jse Williams is well st as the gay baseball superstar Darren Lemmg. "Dpe the monali, the media, cludg the New York Tim, has wonred whether Williams, a straight actor, should play a gay character. Bee straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award, " Billy Porter, who is a member of the LGBTQ muny, told The Hollywood Reporter Neil Patrick Harris, who married his hband David Burtka 2014, told The Tim 2021 that he "would fely want to hire the bt actor" for any role.
"Take Me Out, " which opened April 4, centers Darren, a stellar profsnal baseball player, and what happens to him and his team — the fictnal Empir — after he out as script, viewed by Insir, lls Darren "a Black man who you uld image had never suffered" and Williams told Entertament Weekly that the character "don't nsir himself part of the gay muny" and has been "straight prentg" before he mak the somewhat impulsive cisn to share his sexual orientatn wh the world at a prs 's is a versn of a g-out story, there is no nyg that. Unfortunately, tryg to do so, he grossly unrtimat the power of racism and homophobia. We also see the shock Darren feels when 's clear the team manager Skip (Ken Marks) isn't gog to fight to keep Shane Mungt (Michael Oberholtzer) — the player who ed explic homophobic and racial slurs agast Darren — om beg restated on the team.
Williams has a lot to prove his Broadway but as Darren, and part of the reason he's succsful bee of his platonic chemistry wh stage veteran and "Morn Fay" star Jse Tyler Fergon as Darren's bs manager Mason "Marz" role, more than Williams', benefs om beg played by an openly gay actor who knows the stggle that many young people face bee of their sexualy. Marz knows why 's important that Darren don't n away om baseball, bee he's facg the btal reali of racism and homophobia. Gay people need Darren to keep playg so they n keep dreamg.