‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Jim Parsons is Gay, By the Way – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• ‘BIG BANG THEORY’ STAR JIM PARSONS IS GAY, BY THE WAY
• JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL
• SPOILER ALERT'S JIM PARSONS ON WHY MOVI NEED "EVERYDAY, BORG PEOPLE" WHO JT HAPPEN TO BE GAY
• IS JIM PARSONS GAY? THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
• 'SPOILER ALERT' - JIM PARSONS AND BEN ALDRIDGE ON THEIR GAY 'LOVE STORY'
• JIM PARSONS SAYS 'IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMG' TO BE AN OUT GAY ACTOR HOLLYWOOD

‘BIG BANG THEORY’ STAR JIM PARSONS IS GAY, BY THE WAY

Jim Parsons, the lanky, Texas-born actor who has won two Emmys and a Goln Globe award for playg persnickety geni Sheldon Cooper on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, acknowledg that he is gay and a 10-year relatnship, the New York Tim reveals. Parsons is gay and a 10-year relatnship, and workg wh an ensemble aga onstage was like nourishment, he said.

JIM PARSONS, BEN ALDRIDGE ON WHY SPOILER ALERT’S GAY LOVE STORY IS UNIVERSAL

But pared to other primetime stars who intify as gay — take Morn Fay‘s Jse Tyler Fergon, for example, who has been tirels his vol support for same-sex marriage rights — there’s no nyg that Parsons has been extremely quiet on the topic. Cred Zachary Quto, another -mand gay actor straddlg both Broadway and Hollywood, wh havg fed the template: In late-2011, the Star Trek and Amerin Horror Story star gave an terview to New York magaze, ostensibly about his performance another New York theater revival wh gay them — Tony Khner‘s Angels Ameri.

SPOILER ALERT'S JIM PARSONS ON WHY MOVI NEED "EVERYDAY, BORG PEOPLE" WHO JT HAPPEN TO BE GAY

“And at the same time, as a gay man, ma me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many thgs that need to be looked at and addrsed. The film, based onTVLe founr Michael Aiello's memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Di, about his hband's ath om ncer, is a universal story of love and loss wh a gay uple at s Boys the Band's Parsons plays Aiello the film, while Aldridge (Pennyworth, Fleabag) stars as his hband, K Cowan, who is diagnosed wh nroendocre ncer.

"Bill Irw, Sally Field, Ben Aldridge, and Jim ParsonsFor Parsons, who's played gay characters before projects cludg The Boys the Band and The Normal Heart, Spoiler Alert afford him an opportuny to play a gay character a film that was about more than queerns.

IS JIM PARSONS GAY? THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

"From the moment I read Michael's book that 's based on, seemed very ak to the type of movi that I grew up watchg and lovg that were they weren't about gay upl. ""It's the first time that I've had the chance to play a story that -- 's hard to say that them beg homosexual is sendary -- but kd of is 's really jt about two people who love each other and this journey that they go on, " he adds.

'SPOILER ALERT' - JIM PARSONS AND BEN ALDRIDGE ON THEIR GAY 'LOVE STORY'

Of urse, queer reprentatn is on the rise, and Parsons n now brg to the big screen, as both producer and star, a film like Spoiler Alert, a story featurg romance, edy, drama, and two lead characters who happen to be gay A. Club, the sexualy of the “characters” both is and isn’t tegral to the story—and both is and isn’t part of his recent reer trajectory toward gay rol, om The Normal Heart to The Boys In The You’ve ed the phrase “a regular life, borg love, ” reference to your own sexual orientatn.

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JIM PARSONS SAYS 'IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMG' TO BE AN OUT GAY ACTOR HOLLYWOOD

How do we reach a pot where a film like this isn’t “a gay romance volvg ncer, ” but is stead “a romance volvg ncer—oh, and the characters happen to be gay”? And Showalter and I were talkg afterwards and he said—I may not get the words exactly right—but the sence was, “We assume when you buy a ticket to this movie that we don’t have to expla why gay people are human or why gay people are jt like . AVC: I like that ia, that ’s “both and”—’s tegral to our viewg experience that they’re gay and ’s also cintal the story.

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