K Hargton Says Gay Incln Was a 'Big Reason' to Jo 'Eternals'

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• THE ETERNALS: K HARGTON 'SO PROUD' OF MARVEL'S FIRST GAY UPLE AND GAY KISS
• K HARGTON THKS A GAY ACTOR PLAYG A SUPERHERO WOULD BE “INCREDIBLY POWERFUL”THE GAME OF THRON STAR ON PLAYG A CLOSETED ACTOR THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, XAVIER DOLAN’S FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM.BY JULIE MILLERSEPTEMBER 13, 2018PHOTOGRAPH BY JT BISHOP.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEK HARGTON DID NOT HAVE TO DO MUCH REARCH BEFORE PLAYG A WORLD-FAMO TELEVISN STAR TRYG TO KEEP HIS PERSONAL LIFE PRIVATE THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, XAVIER DOLAN’S NEW DRAMA, WHICH BUTED AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL THIS WEEK.“I THK THERE’S A PART OF YOU, IF YOU’RE FAMO . . . THERE IS A EP-SEATED, VERY, VERY REAL FEAR OF BEG FOUND OUT FOR SOMETHG—BEG EXPOSED, BEG UGHT UP SNDAL, YOUR SECRETS BEG BLURTED OUT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE,” THE GAME OF THRON STAR SAID. “WE ALL HAVE SECRETS; WE ALL HAVE SKELETONS THE CLOSET.”HARGTON’S SECRET, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, IS HIS CHARACTER’S HOMOSEXUALY. HARGTON’S DONOVAN IS FAMO FOR STARRG ON A CW-STYLE TEEN DRAMA, HELLSOME HIGH, AS A HIGH-SCHOOL STUNT WHO N MAKE OBJECTS LEVATE OR BLDS SLAM SHUT, JT BY BROODG HARD ENOUGH. HELLSOME HIGH MAY NOT BE CRILLY REVERED PROGRAMMG, BUT NNECTS EPLY WH SOME VIEWERS—CLUDG A PEN PAL PLAYED BY JAB TREMBLAY. DONOVAN’S AGENT (KATHY BAT) TRI TO BOOST DONOVAN’S REER BY LANDG HIM THE PLUM SUPERHERO ROLE OF JACK HARVT, A FARMER WH TELEKETIC POWERS. BUT WHEN THE SOUL-BARG LETTERS DONOVAN WROTE TREMBLAY’S CHARACTER ARE MA PUBLIC—AS HE IS ON SET SURROUND BY -STARS AND CREW MEMBERS—HE SUFFERS AN EMOTNAL BREAKDOWN. THE LAST SCENE OF THE FILM WAS PARTICULARLY NIGHTMARISH FOR HARGTON TO SHOOT.“SEEG JOHN F. HAVE HIS MOST HIDN—AND REALLY SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE—BUT HIS MOST HIDN PART OF HIMSELF, HIS SEXUALY, EXPOSED LIKE THAT, WHILE HE’S ON SET WH EVERYONE LOOKG AT HIM, IS, FOR ME, WHAT NIGHTMAR ARE MA OF,” SAID HARGTON. “I HAD GREAT EMPATHY FOR HIM BEYOND THE UAL EMPATHY FOR A [CHARACTER], BEE I KD OF KNOW WHAT THAT MIGHT FEEL LIKE. I’VE DREAMT . I’VE BEEN THERE.”HARGTON WAS STG WH DOLAN, THE 29-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN FILMMAKER WHOSE TROPHY SHELF ALREADY CLUS SEVERAL CéSARS AND A CANN JURY PRIZE. WHEN DOLAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN WOULD BE HIS FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM, NATALIE PORTMAN, SAN SARANDON, BAT, AND JSI CHASTA EAGERLY BOARD THE PROJECT. (SOMEWHAT NTROVERSIALLY, DOLAN END UP CUTTG CHASTA’S SCEN BEE THEY FELT “PATIBLE” WH THE RT OF THE FILM. TEASED DOLAN, “JSI PLAYED SORT OF A VILLA STRAIGHT OUT OF A BATMAN MOVIE.”)THE FILM IS SET ABOUT A AGO, WHICH RAIS THE QUTN OF WHAT WOULD TAKE FOR AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE ST AS A STUD SUPERHERO THE DAYS HOLLYWOOD.“THE QUTN REALLY IS NOT, ‘IS POSSIBLE TO BE OUT?’” SAID DOLAN. “THE QUTN IS, ‘WHAT ARE YOUR OPPORTUNI, AND ARE YOUR PROFSNAL HORIZONS NARROWED BY THE FACT THAT YOU EMBRACE YOUR INTY?’ PROBABLY. IF YOU WANT TO EMBRACE YOUR SEXUAL INTY, SHOULDN’T RHAPE YOUR REER, BUT I THK THAT DO. I THK THAT ACTORS HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT IF THEY E OUT, THEY’RE PART OF A GROUP, THEY’RE PART OF A GHETTO, AND THEY’RE GONNA BE TREATED AS SUCH. IMAGE IF CHRIS EVANS WALKED THE RED RPET WH A GUY . . . WOULD HE STILL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE CAPTA AMERI?”SAID HARGTON, “I THK WE ARE ACTUALLY AT A PLACE WHERE ULD VERY WELL HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE A YOUNG ACTOR HIS MID-TWENTI, ABOUT TO GET ONE OF THOSE SUPERHERO ROL, AND HE FILMS THE FILM, AND THEN HE OUT AS GAY . . . AND HE’S NOT YOUR TYPIL EFFEMATE, MP GAY MAN. HE FS THE MOLD OF THAT MASCULE SUPERHERO, BUT HAPPENS TO BE GAY . . . I THK THAT WOULD BE AN CREDIBLY POWERFUL THG TO HAPPEN . . . THERE ARE LOTS OF ACTORS OUT THERE, MAYBE [OF] MY ILK, WHO ARE GAY AND CHOOSE TO HI , AND YOU NNOT BLAME THEM FOR DOG SO. THEY FEEL ’S GOG TO AFFECT HOW THEY’RE ST, AND ’S A PART OF THEIR PRIVACY, AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HI .”MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSH“THE FAIRY-TALE ENDG OF JOHN F. DONOVAN,” SAID HARGTON, “WOULD BE HIM WALKG DOWN ONE OF THOSE RED RPETS WH HIS NEW BOYIEND, ARM ARM, AND EVERYONE TAK PHOTOS, AND ’S LIKE THE NOTTG HILL ENDG—AND HE STILL GETS THE PART OF THE HERO THE MOVIE, AND THE WORLD ACCEPTS THAT THIS MAN N BE THE MASCULE SUPERHERO THE MOVIE, AND ALSO HAVE A BOYIEND. I DON’T THK WE’RE THERE YET.”AFTER SPENDG HOURS ANSWERG HEAVY QUTNS OM VAR REPORTERS, HARGTON AND DOLAN WERE GOG A B STIR CRAZY. (AT ONE POT, HARGTON PULLED OUT A VAPE PEN: “YOU DON’T MD?” HE ASKED. “IT’S JT A VAPE. I’VE BEEN THIS ROOM FOR AG.”) BUT ONE TOPIC WAS EXCG ENOUGH TO GET DOLAN MOVG: THE MAKG OF HELLSOME HIGH, THE MPY TELEVISN SHOW WH THE MOVIE. WHEN ASKED ABOUT , DOLAN JUMPED UP AND ANNOUNCED, “LET’S WATCH THE OPENG CREDS AGA!,” BEFORE PULLG THEM UP ON HIS PHONE.PERHAPS THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN WAS ACTUALLY A TROJAN HORSE THAT DOLAN ENGEERED ORR TO SHOOT THIS FAKE SHOW, AN HOMAGE TO HIS FAVORE SORTS OF SERI. BEFORE FILMG HIS MPY SCEN, HARGTON SAID THAT DOLAN GAVE HIM HOMEWORK: “HE MA ME WATCH ROSWELL,” THE WB SCI-FI SERI STARRG SHIRI APPLEBY THAT AIRED OM 1999 TO 2002.“IT’S SO GOOD. IT’S SO GOOD!” DOLAN SAID.“NO, I LOVE ,” HARGTON REPLIED DIPLOMATILLY. “I MEAN, I WAS NOT AS OBSSED WH ROSWELL AS BUFFY AND THAT SORT OF THG. I WAS ACTUALLY OBSSED WH BUFFY—BUFFY I LOVED.”AS THE FX SOAP’S OPENG CREDS WOUND DOWN, HARGTON ADPANNED, “I THK HE SHOT MORE OF HELLSOME HIGH THAN HE ACTUALLY SHOT OF THE MOVIE.”SGLE-FOCED, DOLAN TURNED TO HARGTON AND ASKED, “WHAT ARE YOU DOG AFTER GAME OF THRON?”“HELLSOME HIGH, IF YOU WANT ME,” HARGTON SAID, WHOUT MISSG A BEAT.JULIE MILLER
• IS K HARGTON GAY?

THE ETERNALS: K HARGTON 'SO PROUD' OF MARVEL'S FIRST GAY UPLE AND GAY KISS

After years and years and years of wag, LGBTQ+ Marvel fans are gog to fally be blsed wh the kd of meangful reprentatn they've been wantg when they get troduced to gay hero Phastos (and his lovg hband and son) the Chloe Zhao-directed blockbter epic Eternals! There’s been a big nversatn takg place about reprentatn Hollywood pecially when ncerns straight actors takg LGBTQ was mass cricism over Srlett Johansson signg on to play a trans man, which she subsequently dropped out of, while Disney was nmned for stg Jack Whehall as a gay man Jungle Cise, a role that is said to be the stud’s first ever openly gay movie Hargton has joed the nversatn of late, as he promot his latt movie The Death and Life of John F. The actor plays the tular character who is a closeted gay TV star stgglg to ntrol both his public and private recently asked why there hasn’t been an openly gay Marvel actor or character so far the superhero genre, though when speakg to Yahoo Movi UK he fend his and other straight actors’ right to play LGBTQ rol.

K HARGTON THKS A GAY ACTOR PLAYG A SUPERHERO WOULD BE “INCREDIBLY POWERFUL”THE GAME OF THRON STAR ON PLAYG A CLOSETED ACTOR THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, XAVIER DOLAN’S FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM.BY JULIE MILLERSEPTEMBER 13, 2018PHOTOGRAPH BY JT BISHOP.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEK HARGTON DID NOT HAVE TO DO MUCH REARCH BEFORE PLAYG A WORLD-FAMO TELEVISN STAR TRYG TO KEEP HIS PERSONAL LIFE PRIVATE THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, XAVIER DOLAN’S NEW DRAMA, WHICH BUTED AT THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL THIS WEEK.“I THK THERE’S A PART OF YOU, IF YOU’RE FAMO . . . THERE IS A EP-SEATED, VERY, VERY REAL FEAR OF BEG FOUND OUT FOR SOMETHG—BEG EXPOSED, BEG UGHT UP SNDAL, YOUR SECRETS BEG BLURTED OUT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE,” THE GAME OF THRON STAR SAID. “WE ALL HAVE SECRETS; WE ALL HAVE SKELETONS THE CLOSET.”HARGTON’S SECRET, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, IS HIS CHARACTER’S HOMOSEXUALY. HARGTON’S DONOVAN IS FAMO FOR STARRG ON A CW-STYLE TEEN DRAMA, HELLSOME HIGH, AS A HIGH-SCHOOL STUNT WHO N MAKE OBJECTS LEVATE OR BLDS SLAM SHUT, JT BY BROODG HARD ENOUGH. HELLSOME HIGH MAY NOT BE CRILLY REVERED PROGRAMMG, BUT NNECTS EPLY WH SOME VIEWERS—CLUDG A PEN PAL PLAYED BY JAB TREMBLAY. DONOVAN’S AGENT (KATHY BAT) TRI TO BOOST DONOVAN’S REER BY LANDG HIM THE PLUM SUPERHERO ROLE OF JACK HARVT, A FARMER WH TELEKETIC POWERS. BUT WHEN THE SOUL-BARG LETTERS DONOVAN WROTE TREMBLAY’S CHARACTER ARE MA PUBLIC—AS HE IS ON SET SURROUND BY -STARS AND CREW MEMBERS—HE SUFFERS AN EMOTNAL BREAKDOWN. THE LAST SCENE OF THE FILM WAS PARTICULARLY NIGHTMARISH FOR HARGTON TO SHOOT.“SEEG JOHN F. HAVE HIS MOST HIDN—AND REALLY SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE—BUT HIS MOST HIDN PART OF HIMSELF, HIS SEXUALY, EXPOSED LIKE THAT, WHILE HE’S ON SET WH EVERYONE LOOKG AT HIM, IS, FOR ME, WHAT NIGHTMAR ARE MA OF,” SAID HARGTON. “I HAD GREAT EMPATHY FOR HIM BEYOND THE UAL EMPATHY FOR A [CHARACTER], BEE I KD OF KNOW WHAT THAT MIGHT FEEL LIKE. I’VE DREAMT . I’VE BEEN THERE.”HARGTON WAS STG WH DOLAN, THE 29-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN FILMMAKER WHOSE TROPHY SHELF ALREADY CLUS SEVERAL CéSARS AND A CANN JURY PRIZE. WHEN DOLAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN WOULD BE HIS FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM, NATALIE PORTMAN, SAN SARANDON, BAT, AND JSI CHASTA EAGERLY BOARD THE PROJECT. (SOMEWHAT NTROVERSIALLY, DOLAN END UP CUTTG CHASTA’S SCEN BEE THEY FELT “PATIBLE” WH THE RT OF THE FILM. TEASED DOLAN, “JSI PLAYED SORT OF A VILLA STRAIGHT OUT OF A BATMAN MOVIE.”)THE FILM IS SET ABOUT A AGO, WHICH RAIS THE QUTN OF WHAT WOULD TAKE FOR AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR TO BE ST AS A STUD SUPERHERO THE DAYS HOLLYWOOD.“THE QUTN REALLY IS NOT, ‘IS POSSIBLE TO BE OUT?’” SAID DOLAN. “THE QUTN IS, ‘WHAT ARE YOUR OPPORTUNI, AND ARE YOUR PROFSNAL HORIZONS NARROWED BY THE FACT THAT YOU EMBRACE YOUR INTY?’ PROBABLY. IF YOU WANT TO EMBRACE YOUR SEXUAL INTY, SHOULDN’T RHAPE YOUR REER, BUT I THK THAT DO. I THK THAT ACTORS HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT IF THEY E OUT, THEY’RE PART OF A GROUP, THEY’RE PART OF A GHETTO, AND THEY’RE GONNA BE TREATED AS SUCH. IMAGE IF CHRIS EVANS WALKED THE RED RPET WH A GUY . . . WOULD HE STILL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE CAPTA AMERI?”SAID HARGTON, “I THK WE ARE ACTUALLY AT A PLACE WHERE ULD VERY WELL HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE A YOUNG ACTOR HIS MID-TWENTI, ABOUT TO GET ONE OF THOSE SUPERHERO ROL, AND HE FILMS THE FILM, AND THEN HE OUT AS GAY . . . AND HE’S NOT YOUR TYPIL EFFEMATE, MP GAY MAN. HE FS THE MOLD OF THAT MASCULE SUPERHERO, BUT HAPPENS TO BE GAY . . . I THK THAT WOULD BE AN CREDIBLY POWERFUL THG TO HAPPEN . . . THERE ARE LOTS OF ACTORS OUT THERE, MAYBE [OF] MY ILK, WHO ARE GAY AND CHOOSE TO HI , AND YOU NNOT BLAME THEM FOR DOG SO. THEY FEEL ’S GOG TO AFFECT HOW THEY’RE ST, AND ’S A PART OF THEIR PRIVACY, AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HI .”MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSH“THE FAIRY-TALE ENDG OF JOHN F. DONOVAN,” SAID HARGTON, “WOULD BE HIM WALKG DOWN ONE OF THOSE RED RPETS WH HIS NEW BOYIEND, ARM ARM, AND EVERYONE TAK PHOTOS, AND ’S LIKE THE NOTTG HILL ENDG—AND HE STILL GETS THE PART OF THE HERO THE MOVIE, AND THE WORLD ACCEPTS THAT THIS MAN N BE THE MASCULE SUPERHERO THE MOVIE, AND ALSO HAVE A BOYIEND. I DON’T THK WE’RE THERE YET.”AFTER SPENDG HOURS ANSWERG HEAVY QUTNS OM VAR REPORTERS, HARGTON AND DOLAN WERE GOG A B STIR CRAZY. (AT ONE POT, HARGTON PULLED OUT A VAPE PEN: “YOU DON’T MD?” HE ASKED. “IT’S JT A VAPE. I’VE BEEN THIS ROOM FOR AG.”) BUT ONE TOPIC WAS EXCG ENOUGH TO GET DOLAN MOVG: THE MAKG OF HELLSOME HIGH, THE MPY TELEVISN SHOW WH THE MOVIE. WHEN ASKED ABOUT , DOLAN JUMPED UP AND ANNOUNCED, “LET’S WATCH THE OPENG CREDS AGA!,” BEFORE PULLG THEM UP ON HIS PHONE.PERHAPS THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN WAS ACTUALLY A TROJAN HORSE THAT DOLAN ENGEERED ORR TO SHOOT THIS FAKE SHOW, AN HOMAGE TO HIS FAVORE SORTS OF SERI. BEFORE FILMG HIS MPY SCEN, HARGTON SAID THAT DOLAN GAVE HIM HOMEWORK: “HE MA ME WATCH ROSWELL,” THE WB SCI-FI SERI STARRG SHIRI APPLEBY THAT AIRED OM 1999 TO 2002.“IT’S SO GOOD. IT’S SO GOOD!” DOLAN SAID.“NO, I LOVE ,” HARGTON REPLIED DIPLOMATILLY. “I MEAN, I WAS NOT AS OBSSED WH ROSWELL AS BUFFY AND THAT SORT OF THG. I WAS ACTUALLY OBSSED WH BUFFY—BUFFY I LOVED.”AS THE FX SOAP’S OPENG CREDS WOUND DOWN, HARGTON ADPANNED, “I THK HE SHOT MORE OF HELLSOME HIGH THAN HE ACTUALLY SHOT OF THE MOVIE.”SGLE-FOCED, DOLAN TURNED TO HARGTON AND ASKED, “WHAT ARE YOU DOG AFTER GAME OF THRON?”“HELLSOME HIGH, IF YOU WANT ME,” HARGTON SAID, WHOUT MISSG A BEAT.JULIE MILLER

“if you’re askg me if I thk that this part should have been played by a gay actor I’d have to Hargton and Xavier Dolan at “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan is gay the movie he has to be played by a gay actor. ”His director Xavier Dolan is an openly gay filmmaker and says that the nversatn surroundg LGBTQ rol and reprentatn for actors is “tricky.

“Of urse, the tth is LGBTQ actors, queer artists have had much fewer opportuni than straight actors the past and straight actors have often portrayed betiful gay rol and that is, self, that n be nmned. If I’m gay and should be entled to gay rol than straight people should be entled to straight rol and I n never be an actor and be straight on screen. “I have my own life, my own secrets, my own personal privacy and thgs that are me and personal to me but I’m not a gay man who is hidg his sexualy and that’s who John is and what tears John apart by the end of the film.

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IS K HARGTON GAY?

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