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"I’ve never played a gay character before, but really I was jt terrified of the possibily of beg at all clichéd or stereotypil." * is molly shannon gay *

Comedian and actor Molly Shannon opened up about her closeted gay dad a touchg terview wh Howard Stern, scribg how she found out and what had done to him.

“Your dad was dyg of prostate ncer, and you put together that your dad might have been a closeted gay man his whole life, ” Stern said. “And this is the horror of our world, bee the asshol, attackg gay people even today and makg ‘gay’ bad, maybe that’s why he was drkg and why he was an alholic. Levy is an out gay man.

MOLLY SHANNON'S GAY DAD INSPIRED HER TO STAR MIL,OTHER PEOPLE

When she asked if he was tellg her that her dad is gay, “He was like, ‘I don’t want to tell you! Was he gay? Fdg out shortly before her father's ath that he was a closeted gay man ma 's heart break for also shed light on Jam Shannon's stggl wh alhol for much of his life, which ntributed to a r crash when Shannon was 4 that killed her mother, younger sister and "Saturday Night Live" alumna wr about this surprisg revelatn her new memoir, "Hello, Molly!

" She relled an terview on “The Howard Stern Show" Tuday how she found out her father was gay. "He said, 'I saw this psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist told me I’m a latent homosexual, ' and she said, 'Oh, that psychiatrist never should’ve told you that. "I jt one day asked him by the pool, 'Have you ever thought you might be gay?

"Shannon told NPR that she then asked him when he first knew he was gay. Shannon is g out of the closet to the world about her father beg gay and wr about how the LGBTQ+ muny has fluenced her reer many ways. What would you like to tell gay rears about your father?

BIG GAY FOLLOWG: MOLLY SHANNON

Straight people have to fend gay people and tell their stori. I am tellg my story om a perspective of a child whose father was a closeted [gay man].

WCT: Did you spect he was gay? When I was gog to drama school at NYU, I would see a picture of Joan Crawford and thk my dad would love , but I never associated that he was gay! Miss Colleen is mad bee her hband is gay.

WCT: Your reer has reflected many gay projects over the years. A reporter asked my director, Chris Kelly om the film Other People, why Molly do so many gay projects.

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I wanted him to go to gay bars and dance then fall love. WCT: You talk about a gay bar lled Traxx the book and we have a gay bar lled Sitrack that you n vis while you are town.

MS: Jack was also gay. WCT: In the movie Other People, you played the mother of a gay son.

Key plotl clu the unveilg of a new Hadid (who is kept hidn unr a sheet until ready), wild party gays turned terr sign fluencers, and pop stars who make more headl om changg their hair lor than they do om actually releasg liv of Brooke (played by Heléne Yorke) and Cary Dubek (Drew Tarver) may stay jt as strange and huiatg as they were Season 1, but this first season for HBO Max se a major change for the show and a bigger role for Molly the first season, Brooke and Cary the the failg "other two" siblgs to Bieber-like pop star Chase Dreams (Case Walker), while this time they are playg send fiddle to mom Pat (Shannon), who be a hugely succsful daytime TV host somewhere between Ellen DeGener (pre productn troubl) and Ricki Lake. "In Season 2, we particularly get a lot of velopment of Cary, a new kd of gay character for TV. While other TV shows have shamed gay men for wantg to be sexually promiscuo and prais them for livg Mchell and Cam om Morn Fay-style domtic liv, Cary go om pre-wedd bliss to beg more sexually open as the show go on.

MOLLY SHANNON TALKS ABOUT HER GAY DAD

"A lot of Cary's Season 1 was tryg to get over his self-hatred and his own ternalized homophobia. "In Season 2, at first he go om that to this sort of a wholome sanized versn of gayns.

Well, maybe my parents will accept my homosexualy if I'm not wh a man. ' It's kd of this like a straight versn of gay.

In both Mil and Other People -- films that premiered this past year -- Molly Shannon portrayed the mother and ally of a gay person.

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Her father spent most of his life the a Friday Q&A celebratg the theatril release of Mil -- a movie about a gay teen's fight to bridge the genr divi a high school sports team -- Shannon opened up about the story of her dad and how he fally me to tell her he was gay.

"My dad was gay and closeted -- born 1926, where wasn't an optn. In her youth, Shannon did not know her father was gay. I didn't associate that he might be gay; I jt thought, 'He'll love this!

Molly Shannon's Gay Dad Inspired Her to Star 'Mil,' 'Other People'

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