Wentworth Miller publicly me out as gay last month, and now he's discsg his stggle g to terms wh his inty. "The first time I tried to kill myself I was 15. I waed until my fay went away for the weekend and I was alone the hoe and I swallowed a bottle of pills," Miller said a speech at the Human Rights Campaign Dner Seattle on Saturday.
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- WENTWORTH MILLER ADDRS FANS WANTG HIS PRISON BREAK CHARACTER TO BE GAY AFTER HE STEPS DOWN
- WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS, 'I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF' FOR BEG GAY
WENTWORTH MILLER ADDRS FANS WANTG HIS PRISON BREAK CHARACTER TO BE GAY AFTER HE STEPS DOWN
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Acpanied simply by a blank whe square, the 48-year-old actor — who is an out gay man — wrote a lengthy ptn on Sunday acknowledgg both his fans and his haters, statg that he “n’t be bullied out of this space” while exprsg ncern that younger queer people might see homophobic ments on his page and be “exposed to bullsh. If you're hot and bothered bec you fell love wh a fictnal straight man played by a real gay one… That's your work. “Am I sayg gay actors (gay men, specifilly) should only play gay parts?
” He also said that he wanted to see more gay parts played by gay actors, claimg that dog so mak a difference terms of performance and bee “straight actors playg ‘gay’ centers straightns. ”Addnally, Miller touched on his own experienc wh self-censorship as an actor workg Hollywood, sayg that while no one ever explicly told him to “bury his gayns, ” he had received a “don’t ask, don’t tell” msage om the culture at large, cludg the “homophobic subgroup” of the fandom he has cultivated.
WENTWORTH MILLER REVEALS, 'I TRIED TO KILL MYSELF' FOR BEG GAY
”While Miller didn’t specify what new work his “break” om the closet will entail, he exprsed a sire to make up for lost time as an openly gay actor. “My gayns was largely erased (by me, for starters) the first s of my reer, ” he said.
A 2013 survey of the labor unn SAG-AFTRA found that over half of LGBTQ+ rponnts believed that directors and producers were biased agast hirg LGBTQ+ performers, and that half of LGB rponnts reported wnsg directors and producers makg anti-gay ments about actors. "I'd like to tell -- to watch -- more stori where gay characters are rmed by their stggl, but not fed, " he said, addg, "Not gettg sacrificed so straight characters n enjoy some kd of epiphany. Wentworth Miller is speakg out about why he is not support of havg his Prison Break character e out as gay.