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ROBERT SHEEHAN DON'T WANT HIS UMBRELLA AMY CHARACTER TO BE LABELLED AS JT "THE GAY ONE"
One of the stars of Netflix's The Umbrella Amy wants fans to embrace his character for more than only beg "the gay one" on the adaptatn of My Chemil Romance ontman Gerard Way's ic book seri sprgs om page to screen this week, as the survivg members of a supernaturally-gifted fay rne to solve the mystery of their adopted father's member of the fay is Fortu star Robert Sheehan's Kls Hargreev (aka The Séance), a troubled addict who has the power to munite wh the ad. "Like or not, if your character is labelled as a 'gay character', then that label be fg and kd of rc all else about the character, " the actor told . "Oversimplifitn if you jt say, ‘Oh, well he’s the gay one’.
”He went on: "I was wh my iend Rory, who’s gay, and we were talkg about Into The Spir-Verse. That popular culture has been credibly misogynistic, one-sid, no voice for gay people like myself terms of the big movi’. "[Kls] wasn’t even gay when we began.
Or he didn’t have gay tennci when we began. Netflix“I suppose I brought a character to the table who they uld envisn beg probably gay-er than they origally envisned. "It’s very, very lovely that maybe young people who are embarrassed about the fact that they’re gay and they’re keepg to themselv, n feel a ltle ls unfortable about by seeg a character like Kls who is very out there and very lourful and unashamed about the fact that he is pansexual, or whatever you want to ll .