Contents:
- ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
- MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
Do all whe Lot hotels have a gay manager? Bartlett, whose break Ameri me via a Sex and the Cy episo, playg a handsome gay shoe importer who dazzl Carrie the episo “All That Glters, ” has had other major rol HBO drama Lookg and the most recent screen eratn of Tal of the Cy.
”Armond’s sexualy is not the reason for his ath, so if he is no more, is not a homophobic murr. I hear what you’re sayg about gay characters historilly gettg a raw al, but for me Armond beg gay has nothg to do wh him dyg. It didn’t feel like was any kid of rogatory diss on queer people or a gay man.
”“I do thk there are still lgerg stigmas, and some ceilgs to break through”In his standout rol—as Armond The Whe Lot, as Dom Lookg, and as Michael Tolliver the most recent screen eratn of Armistead Mp’s Tal of the Cy for Netflix—Bartlett is unique; an out gay actor playg an assortment of varied, eply wrten gay men progrsg through middle age on mastream TV. As an actor you want to play a range of rol, and I’ve had the opportuny to play gay and straight rol, but I often get to play gay rol which I absolutely love bee we are a time where we are still tryg to have more reprentatn unr-reprented muni, cludg the queer muny. ”Bartlett don’t know if he was offered the rol on the strength of his prev gay rol—which n be sometim how producers and stg directors n see you.
MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
“I don’t know if people thk, ‘He n only play gay rol, ’ or is that the only way they have seen me and so thk, ‘He’s right for this’?
“I was super-fortunate as a young person who had an credible mother who loved me no matter what, and didn’t have any issue wh me beg gay. Fortunately, that worked out really well for me bee the opportuni I got have been wonrful, but may have guid my trajectory that I have played more gay rol than I would have if I hadn’t been open. ”He fell love wh the cy, extend his tourist visa—and then, a bolt of good fortune, booked his first job on Sex and the Cy playg Oliver, the handsome gay Asie who first gets Carrie served a crowd, flhy gay bar, and then briefly displac Stanford (Willie Garson) as her gay bt iend.
” (Mar Perez/HBO) “I didn’t want him to be a mpy riture of a gay man, ” says Bartlett — who’s been out his entire reer — by phone om Los Angel when asked about his Armond approach. Both feature a character walkg on gay sex behd closed doors, and both occur two episos before the fale. “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe said.