Rsell Tovey, star of HBO's short-lived gay seri "Lookg," rells the negative reactns he faced om his own muny.
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RSELL TOVEY: GAY MALE BACKLASH TO ‘LOOKG’ ‘BROKE ME, HONTLY’
Creator Michael Lannan’s seri about the s and outs of three gay bt iends San Francis ran for two seasons 2014 and 2015, followed by a 2016 straight-to-HBO movie place of a third season. And those hopg “Lookg” would be HBO’s gay answer to “Sex and the Cy” might have been disappoted wh what they received stead: an die film-style dramedy that played to the often driftg rhythms of s characters’ liv, seekg love and sex a Bay Area beg swallowed by the tech boom.
Tovey, an out Brish actor who’s sce ma a name on stage (“Angels Ameri”) and screen (“Amerin Horror Story: NYC”) for playg rol both queer and straight but mostly the former, is now airg out his feelgs about the gay male rponse to the seri at the time.
RSELL TOVEY: ‘BEG GAY MA MY REER'
” (A handful of gay iends I polled for this story didn’t have shy thgs to say. But Tovey was most stung by reactns om his own gay male muny.
He relled shootg Season 2 scen outsi a San Francis ffee shop, where he was approached by gay men passg by the set. For young kids to be able to say, ‘Cool, I’ll watch “Glee” tonight and then go to a gay bar’ – that is an credible gift that’s been hand down. I wonr if Rsell was first a fan of Ryan Stack - aka ex-gay porn star - before they met.
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