Ahead of the film's 15-year anniversary this fall, Brian Falduto opens up about growg up beg viewed as "a young gay figurehead" and how he's fally found peace wh that.
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‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’S’ BILLY WR ABOUT BEG LABELED “THE GAY KID”
Brian Falduto, an actor and mician bt known for playg Billy (or “Fancy Pants”) the Jack Black mil film School of Rock, opens up about his experience growg up as “the gay kid” om the film an emotnal say for The Advote. Sayg that he’s now “OK wh , ” he explas that, bee of his role the film, which me out 15 years ago October, he was labeled as “gay” early on.
He explas that, at the time, “there also weren’t seasons of The Voice like the current one where sexually diverse and genr-fluid talents are reprented or openly gay Olympic figure skaters like Adam Rippon. ” And, he says, “The add element of beg a young gay figurehead when I didn’t have any personal role mols to pend on, well, plited thgs, to say the least. The film is makg history as the first mastream stud movie to feature a gay teen romance.