Mart Freeman says fans felt 'betrayed' 'Sherlock' didn't end wh a gay romance - Attu

MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI

Eher that, or gay as a piic basket. Sherlock star Mart Freeman has spoken about stgglg to al wh fans of the show who believed his character was gay. Mart Freeman: Sherlock fans nsired lack of gay relatnship ‘a betrayal’.

Speakg on Dert Island Discs on Sunday (March 31), Freeman opened up about alg wh gay fan theori om “challengg” fans. Freeman add: “By the time we filmed the last on, there were some fans who were so adamant… they knew that John and Sherlock were gay, they knew , and they knew that Steven [Moffat] and Mark [Gatiss] were gog to wre an episo where we held hands off to the sunset together.

"Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England. "Roger Ebert wrote: "He plays the role not as a man pretendg to be a woman, and not as a woman trapped a man's body, and not as a parody of a woman, and not as a gay man, but as a drag queen, perd: Lola, a tall, athletic performer thigh-high red boots who l the stage of a drag club as if she were born there, and is a pretty good sger, too. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, were both Osr-nomated for their performanc (Ledger lead, Gyllenhaal supportg) this film about two men fallg love and ntug their affair for film sred 87% on Rotten Tomato, wh the se's cril nsens readg: "A betifully epic Wtern, 'Brokeback Mounta''s gay love story is imbued wh heartbreakg universaly, helped by the movg performanc of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.