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- JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
- IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?
- OPENLY GAY JONATHAN GROFF DATG WENT OFF, BOYIEND LOVE REMAS
JONATHAN BENT WANTED TO CREATE A GAY UNCLE BUCK FOR THE HOLIDAY STER
The Hallmark Channel is set to make history — and make good on s promise for more LGBTQ-cln — wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay lead character. The 33-year-old Bridgerton star, who portrays Anthony Bridgerton on the Netflix h, opened up about his experience g out as gay a new profile wh GQ.
Thkg back to the early days of his reer, Bailey relled how one of his actor iends was once told durg pilot season, "There's two thgs we don't want to know: if you're an alholic or if you're gay.
Though Bailey's Bridgerton character intifi as straight, the actor has prevly argued that gay men should be able to play their own experienc on the screen.
IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?
"I thk shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of urse, there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playg straight leadg rol, " he told Digal Spy December 2020. "And also, there's a reason why gay characters are so tertg. Bee much like the women Bridgerton, there are a lot of hurdl and there's a lot of self-growth, and there's a real strength to gay men.
Bailey ntued, "So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play inic gay rol and to be ld for that is fantastic, that that story is beg told. But wouldn't be brilliant to see gay men play their own experience? " She then elaborated on the impact Bailey has had on younger actors who are gay but are still hidg the closet:"I have a uple of younger actors that I've discsed wh.
In the play, the character of John - played by Bailey the revival - falls love wh a woman spe always intifyg as a gay man and havg a boyiend of seven years. Meanwhile, his mastream succs is clearly spirg other actors who would like to live their tth but are perhaps aaid of the nsequenc that g out as gay uld have their reers.
OPENLY GAY JONATHAN GROFF DATG WENT OFF, BOYIEND LOVE REMAS
RELATED | Bridgerton Queen Golda Roshvel Lov Her 'Joyo' Gay Life. In the movie, which buts Sunday, Bent plays Sam, a gay guy whose personal life suffers at the st of his profsnal life — work over marriage. '" Add to the formula the actor's love of the '80s classic Uncle Buck starrg John Candy, pl his sire to see a movie that was "really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022.
" And that turned to me and my love for Uncle Buck, the movie wh John Candy that I grew up on, and I kd of put those ias together and I said, "What if Uncle Buck was gay? Sam is beg really thentic to what 's like beg a gay man 2022 and what that experience is.
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