'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season 14.
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- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
- ‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
- ‘ANDI MACK’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- 'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'
'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
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This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. "We were lookg at Mac at one pot, and I was like, 'He is such an arch-arch Catholic nservative when sus him, and when don’t, he drops that.' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic.
MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father * mac character gay *
And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay.' What we realized is, if you look back over the seasons, almost worked retroactively."Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them."The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.
"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season Sep.
‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
A 17-year-old -star of the jt end, ma--Utah seri “Andi Mack” has e out as bisexual — almost two years after the character he played me out as gay. * mac character gay *
In Season 11, the wrers ially had Rob’s character e out as gay to his iends, but he eventually cid to "go back the closet.
" So, what prompted Rob (who also -created the show) to make Mac It’s Always Sunny gay? It’s Always Sunny star Rob McElhenney talks about makg Mac an terview wh Rollg Stone, Rob talked about why he cid to make his super nservative character gay. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic, ” he elaborated.
‘ANDI MACK’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL
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It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father, a set-up which prompted a stunng dance number Wednday night's Season 13 fale. Vulture sets up: “In the fale, Frank (Danny DeVo) is tryg to nvce Mac to prance on the gang's gay pri para float, but Mac isn't feelg . In his own way, Frank tri to help: “I never really got you and, to be hont, now that you're gay I get you even ls.
Why the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ wrers cid to make Mac gay. McElhenney says the cisn to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character’s ultra-nservative beliefs.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
’ And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
And that’s when I thought, ‘Let’s jt make him gay. Though may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the velopment me to them later. But somethg that ught their attentn was the reactn they received when Mac me out as gay.
“There was an episo where we had a nng gag that Mac was the closet and refed to e out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him.
'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'
The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly. The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. “We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very f*cked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
When Rob Mcelhenney origally wrote the character Mac, do you thk he tend the character to be gay, or did the wrers ( later seasons) ci that would be tertg to make Mac gay and clu a gay character IASIP to make a long nng joke?
- I fully support the LGBT muny and this post is no way a disparagement of the gay muny. In a first for Disney Channel, a key character on s popular tween seri Andi Mack will realize he’s gay and e out to his story arc will mark the channel’s first pictn of a g-out journey.