Ahead of the film's 15-year anniversary this fall, Brian Falduto opens up about growg up beg viewed as "a young gay figurehead" and how he's fally found peace wh that.
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- 'SCHOOL OF ROCK' ACTOR BRIAN FALDUTO WAS HOMOPHOBIC TOWARD HIMSELF AFTER PLAYG 'THE GAY KID'
- CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
- ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’S’ BILLY WR ABOUT BEG LABELED “THE GAY KID”
- AFTER PLAYG THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK, AN ACTOR ADJTS TO LIFE OFF CAMERA
'SCHOOL OF ROCK' ACTOR BRIAN FALDUTO WAS HOMOPHOBIC TOWARD HIMSELF AFTER PLAYG 'THE GAY KID'
In a 2018 say, Falduto wrote that playg Billy led him to be lled the "gay kid om 'School of Rock'.
Years later, durg his senr year of llege, he me out as gay.
CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
"This movie me out and I got lled 'gay' and then someone told me that's not ol so I jt was like 'Oh OK I'm not gay.
No, but uld be former child actor said he was receivg negative msag surroundg gayns so often that his nial grew before he even unrstood what meant to be homosexual or queer.
‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’S’ BILLY WR ABOUT BEG LABELED “THE GAY KID”
"By the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic toward myself, " he said. "In llege I met a bunch of gay people and I was like 'this is awome and they're great but this isn't an optn for me.
AFTER PLAYG THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK, AN ACTOR ADJTS TO LIFE OFF CAMERA
"I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, " School of Rock actor Brian Falduto said of playg "the gay kid" the 2003 movie. The former child actor, 29, recently opened up about how playg "the gay kid" the 2003 movie ma difficult for him to e to terms wh his own sexualy. "Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that's not ol, " Falduto ntued.
"So I was jt like, 'Oh okay, then I'm not gay.