Big Mouth season 3 manag to tell the story of a gay character, Matthew (voiced by Andrew Rannells), and make his storyle realistic a way I n't remember seeg as a kid or an adult.
Contents:
- BIG MOUTH STAR ANDREW RANNELLS TALKS G OUT, GAY CLICHéS, AND MATTHEW'S SEASON 4 JOURNEY
- BIG MOUTH'S MATTHEW IS THE KD OF GAY TV CHARACTER I WISH I'D HAD AS A KID
- 'BIG MOUTH' IS DOG THEIR PART TO FURTHER 'THE GAY AGENDA' BY HAVG MORE LGBTQ CHARACTERS THAN STRAIGHT ON
BIG MOUTH STAR ANDREW RANNELLS TALKS G OUT, GAY CLICHéS, AND MATTHEW'S SEASON 4 JOURNEY
* is andrew gay on big mouth *
Acrdg to Andrew Rannells, he was only gog to be "a uple of episos" at first, but four seasons , Matthew is now an tegral of that is likely due to the fact that Matthew was never signed to be a typil gay character.
"The ia of playg a gay bully middle school was very trigug to me, " Rannells jok. Along the way, we discsed g out, gay teenage life, and why season four is Matthew's bt yet.
So gettg my perspective as a gay man, and gog back to my childhood, they really do take all of that to acunt.
BIG MOUTH'S MATTHEW IS THE KD OF GAY TV CHARACTER I WISH I'D HAD AS A KID
That's always somethg you have an eye on, particularly as a gay actor.
'BIG MOUTH' IS DOG THEIR PART TO FURTHER 'THE GAY AGENDA' BY HAVG MORE LGBTQ CHARACTERS THAN STRAIGHT ON
Y, I play the "gay iend", but they flhed out my character, Elijah, on Girls, a way that ma him a human, and not jt a funny Nick ma that very clear to me when we started. So 's very much an evolvg Mouth explor many aspects of gay teen life that we rarely see on screen, cludg your first boyiend at school and the anxieti that e wh the kd of relatnships. I mean, I don't thk was any surprise to my fay that I was gay [lghs].