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. ” (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.
RSELL TOVEY: ‘BEG GAY MA MY REER'
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Rsell Tovey has spoken ndidly about acceptg his sexualy and fdg pri beg a gay man an terview the May issue of Attu magaze. Speakg to the publitn on Wednday, the actor, 39, explaed that he was on set of a TV show where he was 'sperately love' wh an olr actor, but tried to hi om his explaed that a female -star took him to one si as she had realised his feelgs for the actor, and asked if he was gay and reassured him would be 'great' if he was.
Candid: Rsell Tovey said on Wednday he accepted his sexualy when a -star reassured him was okay if he was gay after she realised he was 'sperately love' wh an olr actorRsell explaed: 'I was dog a TV show and I was sperately love wh this much olr actor and had such a csh on him, and I didn’t thk anyone knew. This olr actrs took me for a walk along the beach where was filmg and explaed to me that I might be gay. This olr actrs took me for a walk along the beach where was filmg and explaed to me that I might be gay'The Pass star went on: 'It’s nfg bee you’re livg a world where you’re beg told there’s nowhere you n look to unrstand, what are my feelgs?