Tom Swift's Tian Richards on beg first gay Black lead on work TV |

Contents:

• 'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
• HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
• FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE
• STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)
• IS TOM SWIFT GAY? WHY DID THE AMERIN MYSTERY DRAMA TELEVISN SERI GET CANCELED?
• THE CW’S NEWT SHOW CENTERS A GAY, BLACK BILLNAIRE INVENTOR

'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE

The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a new sci-fi mystery drama that expands the “Nancy Drew” universe on The by “Nancy Drew” shownners Noga Land and Melda Hsu Taylor and “Empire” wrer Cameron Johnson, “Tom Swift, ” which premier Tuday, follows the vilishly charmg ventor (played by Tian Richards) who is scribed as a young man “wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth” who many men would kill to be — or be wh. “I thk the spiratn for me om the fact that I’ve jt never seen a Black gay billnaire onscreen before, and I really wanted to see one.

Assistant, Barclay (voiced by LeVar Burton), whose sights and tough love have been a nstant throughout his an executive producer who is both Black and openly gay, Johnson said he wanted to create a show that not only felt thentic to his own experienc but also felt universal. “And the same way, [wh] ‘Tom Swift, ’ you may not be gay nor Black nor a billnaire … but you might regnize the fay dynamics and the prsure that we experience om our parents and the bonds that we build wh people who we tst — jt agast the backdrop of a really thentilly Black world. ”The rponsibily of playg one of work televisn’s first Black gay lead characters isn’t lost on Richards, whose actg creds clu the films “Burn, ” “Dumpl’” and “A Bad Moms Christmas.

HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD

“For Tom to be somebody who’s out, gay, Black, rich and has a darker sk tone — all the thgs that we never get to see look like this — that is so important for people to see, ” pecially STEM, he said.

“And the versn of that is, everybody knows you’re gay, you’ve said you’re gay, but they jt ignore you and ntue to try to ph you a different directn. “What I particularly love about The CW is that, the wrg of , they never asked to dial back or make ls gay, ” Johnson said.

“That is gog to be really excg and betiful and h, bee I don’t know that we get to see a love story like this wh a Black gay man at the center of as the object of sire that much, pecially one set a world of sci-fi. The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV.

FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE

Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth. Growg up Black and gay, he didn't see characters like himself the lead role or the center of any stori, let alone one that shows someone like him as a billnaire or brilliant ventor or playboy, and he n't help but wonr how his life might have been different if he had.

" That's how Richards end up alg wh all the add prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead — by focg on all of Tom's layers and makg him a three-dimensnal human rather than a symbol for an entire muny. Wh playg a gay character, you don't want them to be an archetype or fall to a trope, and I ma sure to stay mdful of that.

On the surface, he always knew he had a lot mon wh Tom as a gay Black man growg up today's world, but he had no ia jt how much the show was gog to change his life on an ternal level.

STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)

Tom, the tular Black, gay, billnaire ventor, crash to one of Nancy's (Kennedy McMann) vtigatns the May 12 episo "The Celtial Visor, " when Nancy terprets an event as supernatural, and Tom believ to be smilly paranormal.

IS TOM SWIFT GAY? WHY DID THE AMERIN MYSTERY DRAMA TELEVISN SERI GET CANCELED?

Tom tells her that his father never pletely accepted the fact that he was gay, and Isaac says the le “even trans guys have annoyg ex. ” Y, we knew Tom was gay before he said the le, but now he’s leang hard on as a shorthand, very 1980s way to expla the plited relatnship seems he has wh Barton. We might have thought that, 2022, the fact that Tom is gay is cintal to what he do and how brilliant he is.

But the other aspect of Tom Swift that fans n’t ignore is Tom’s romantic life, which featur one of the rnchit gay hookup scen on work televisn Episo 3. So is Tom Swift gay? Is Tian, who plays Tom, gay as well?

In fact, he’s been very open about his The CWArticle ntu below advertisementTom Swift is reimaged as a gay Black man The CW’s ‘Nancy Drew’ and ‘Tom Swift. Together, they reimage the typilly whe book character om the Nancy Drew seri as a gay Black man.

THE CW’S NEWT SHOW CENTERS A GAY, BLACK BILLNAIRE INVENTOR

I thk the spiratn for me om the fact that I’ve jt never seen a Black gay billnaire onscreen before, and I really wanted to see one.