A new trailer nfirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married wh a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.
Contents:
- 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
- MARVEL'S THE ETERNALS NFIRMS OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: 'HE'S MARRIED, HE'S GOT A FAY'
- WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
- ANGELA JOLIE SLAMS ‘ETERNALS’ BAN: ANYONE THREATENED OR ANGRY BY GAY ROL IS ‘IGNORANT’
- ETERNALS: GAY CHARACTER; SAME SEX COUPLE!
- ETERNALS' GAY CHARACTER WILL BE MARRIED, HAVE A FAY
- ‘ETERNALS’ REPORTEDLY PULLED SDI ARABIA AND GULF NATNS OVER GAY SUPERHERO
5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
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MARVEL'S THE ETERNALS NFIRMS OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: 'HE'S MARRIED, HE'S GOT A FAY'
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Rodriguez/Getty Imag And Sleiman is proud to be a part of the first openly gay superhero storyle for Marvel. "I'm married to the gay superhero Phastos, played by Atlanta's Brian Tyree Henry, and we reprent a gay fay and have a child, " he add. Prevly, Marvel Studs print Kev Feige nfirmed that The Eternals would feature an openly gay character to help further onscreen LGBTQ reprentatn.
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Marvel Studs print Kev Feige nfirmed another openly gay character will be g The Eternals. Avengers: Endgame -director Anthony Rso appeared his film as a gay character a small role. The ial nversatns around seemed promisg; productn members often talked about the cln of Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) as the MCU’s first openly gay superhero well before the release.
WAR EPTS OVER NEW MARVEL BLOCKBTER’S GAY SUPERHERO
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Notable occurrenc are the brief mentn that a female character is married to a woman Onward, a meo appearance om Joe Rso Avengers: Endgame as a gay man at a support group, and an acknowledgment of Loki’s non-cishet genr and sexualy brief moments of Loki.
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ANGELA JOLIE SLAMS ‘ETERNALS’ BAN: ANYONE THREATENED OR ANGRY BY GAY ROL IS ‘IGNORANT’
The portrayal of the gay relatnship between Phastos and his hband Ben is unabashed and wholome, as the two are shown to love each other and to re arly for their son Jack (Esai Daniel Cross). Eternals is the perfect movie to have clud this first openly gay superhero (asi om the fact that took 13 years and over 20 movi the MCU for to arrive). Gay and lbian relatnships between cis people are the most monly reprented part of the muny, so is no surprise that Phastos’ relatnship was the first major w for the MCU.
Brian Tyree Henry's character Phastos the upg Eternals is the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie.
ETERNALS: GAY CHARACTER; SAME SEX COUPLE!
Some of the now-leted plats and negative reviews allegedly pertaed to the change the sexualy of Brian Tyree Henry's Phastos, who is the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie — but who was not the ics.
In 2019, Marvel Print Kev Feige nfirmed Henry's character was gay, makg him the first wh an LGBTQ storyle the Marvel Cematic Universe. Haaz Sleiman and Brian Tyree Henry play Marvel's first gay uple on screen Eternals.
ETERNALS' GAY CHARACTER WILL BE MARRIED, HAVE A FAY
Actor Haaz Sleiman, who me out as gay 2017, plays character Ben “Eternals” who is the hband of superhero Phastos.
“Eternals” also hosts the most diverse lp of any Marvel movie, cludg not only a first openly gay fay, but actors of many different ethnic backgrounds and the first af superhero. This also isn’t Marvel’s first attempt at diversifyg s films; an openly gay character was clud “Avengers: Endgame, ” and the star character of “Loki, ” a seri on Disney Pl, is bisexual. Angela Jolie is speakg out agast untri banng her Marvel Cematic Universe tentpole “Eternals” bee clus the anchise’s first openly gay superhero (and a gay kiss to go along wh ).
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‘ETERNALS’ REPORTEDLY PULLED SDI ARABIA AND GULF NATNS OVER GAY SUPERHERO
Homosexualy is still illegal across the Gulf.
Phastos is the the openly gay Eternal and is played the film by “Atlanta” favore Brian Tyree Henry. Introducg the MCU’s first openly gay superhero was already “wrten to the story” before Zhao signed on as director. In her IndieWire terview, Zhao said that gettg the chance to tell this particular narrative thread of the movie wh a gay character ma all the more special.