Jeremy Pope Will Play A Gay Mare Elegance Bratton’s First Feature | Them

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• Y, JEREMY POPE IS GAY AND DATG HIS PARTNER BENJAM JONATHAN, RELATNSHIP TIMELE
• JEREMY POPE B, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH, HEIGHT, FAY
• JEREMY POPE IS READY TO BE A BLACK, QUEER HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARA NEW PATH“THE INSPECTN” IS THE FIRST LEAD ROLE A FILM FOR THE RISG IT BOY. AFTER YEARS OF BEG TOLD THAT BEG OUT AND PROUD WOULD LIM HIS REER, HE’S FG A NEW FUTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED NOV. 16, 2022 4:54AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEAST/A24JEREMY POPE DON’T SO MUCH REFLECT ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE MAKG THE INSPECTN AS PREACH ABOUT . THE FILM, WHICH IS OUT ON FRIDAY, IS THE FIRST LEADG ROLE FOR THE ACTOR, WHOSE RECENT HOT STREAK ON BROADWAY ( THE PLAY CHOIR BOY AND THE MIL A’T TOO PROUD) AND ON NETFLIX (RYAN MURPHY’S HOLLYWOOD) EARNED HIM TWO TONY NOMATNS AND AN EMMY NOD THE SPAN OF TWO YEARS.HE’S THE KD OF PERSON WHO BELIEV MOMENTS, AND THIS ONE—WH THIS FILM AND THIS ROLE—FEELS JT RIGHT. “FOR THIS TO BE MY BUT IS AN AFFIRMATN FOR ME TO NTUE TO WALK STEP, BEE THE THGS N AND WILL HAPPEN,” POPE TELLS THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED. “I TALK ABOUT HAVG TO HAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF FAH YOURSELF AS AN ARTIST, AND BELIEVG THGS YOU N’T SEE. BUT ’S MORE SO BELIEVG THGS THAT THE WORLD ISN’T READY TO SEE FOR YOU YET.”WE’RE TALKG GEIA AT THE SCAD SAVANNAH FILM FTIVAL, WHERE POPE WON THE DISTGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD FOR THE INSPECTN.THE FILM IS WRTEN AND DIRECTED BY ELEGANCE BRATTON. IT’S BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE AS A YOUNG MAN WHO BEME HOMELS 20 YEARS AGO WHEN HIS MOTHER KICKED HIM OUT FOR BEG GAY. HE ENLISTED WH THE MAR TO FD STCTURE AND MEANG HIS LIFE, SPE BEG THE ERA OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL.” POPE PLAYS ELLIS FRENCH, AN AVATAR FOR BRATTON, WHO STGGL THROUGH THE UNFIVG, FULL METAL JACKET TENSY OF BOOT MP, ALL WHILE ATTEMPTG TO RENCILE HIS SEXUALY AND FEELG SPERATE TO FE A NNECTN AGA WH HIS MOTHER, PLAYED BY A NEARLY UNREGNIZABLE GABRIELLE UNN. A24 POPE ME OUT AS GAY 2013, WHEN HE WAS STARRG CHOIR BOY, THE PLAY BY MOONLIGHT OSR-WNER TARELL ALV MCRANEY ABOUT A MEMBER OF A GOSPEL CHOIR AT A PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR BLACK STUNTS STGGLG WH HIS SEXUALY. AS POPE MA PHONE LLS TO HIS FAY, IENDS, AND LLABORATORS, HE REFERRED TO THE PROCS AS VG OTHERS TO “E ” TO HIS INTY AND EXPERIENCE, RATHER THAN G OUT.THERE WERE PEOPLE OVER THE URSE OF HIS REER WHO WARNED HIM AGAST BEG PUBLIC ABOUT HIS QUEERNS.“GRADUATG LLEGE YEARS AGO, WAS THAT THG OF, LIKE, ‘DON’T BE OUT,” HE SAYS. “DON’T, BEE YOU WON’T GET JOBS. YOU WON’T WORK. IF PEOPLE KNOW THAT PIECE ABOUT YOU, THERE’S NO SUCCS. I DIDN’T GROW UP SEEG BLACK QUEER MOVIE STARS. IT’S NOT A THG.”IF POPE’S WORK THE INSPECTN SUGGTS ANYTHG, ’S THAT NOW IS. THERE’S AN CREDIBLE SCENE THE INSPECTN WHICH FRENCH AND THE CLOST THG HE HAS TO A NFIDANT AT BOOT MP, RAúL CASTILLO’S DRILL STCTOR ROSAL, ARE A VAN. FRENCH HAS JT SUFFERED AN EXPLOSIVE BREAKDOWN. ROSAL ASKS HIM WHY, GIVEN THE TOUGH TIME HE’S BEEN HAVG, HE WANTS TO BE A MARE.FRENCH’S EY IMMEDIATELY FILL WH TEARS. HIS MOM WON’T TALK TO HIM, HE SAYS. HIS IENDS ARE AD OR JAIL. HE’S OUT OF OPTNS HIS LIFE. “BUT IF I DIE THIS UNIFORM, I’M A HERO TO SOMEBODY.” HIS LIFE WOULD HAVE MEANT SOMETHG AFTER ALL. “ELEGANCE WAS HOMELS FOR MANY YEARS AND HAD REACHED SUCH A SPERATE PLACE THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE WORLD HAD SHOWED HIM THAT ‘BEE I’M BLACK AND QUEER, I DIE,’” POPE SAYS. “BUT HAVG THAT UNIFORM, HE ULD SAY, ‘WHEN I DIE, I’LL AT LEAST MATTER TO SOMEONE.’ THAT’S REALLY TOUGH TO KNOW, THAT THAT’S WHERE HIS BRA WENT. THAT [THIS OPTN] FELT MORE PROMISG THAN THE STREET THAT HE HAD BEEN LIVG ON FOR SO MANY YEARS.”THE SCENE IS AN EMOTNAL HIGH POT OF THE FILM. AND, THOUGH THE CIRCUMSTANC MAY BE SPECIFIC TO BRATTON’S LIFE, WHICH SPIRED THE STORYLE, THE SENTIMENT IS A POWERFUL THG TO UNRSTAND: AS POPE SAYS, “TO WANT TO MATTER.” GETTG TO CHANNEL THAT SIRE AND ARTICULATE THOSE WORDS WAS ONE OF THE MOST THARTIC MOMENTS OF HIS REER SO FAR.“I’VE SPENT SO MANY YEARS BEG AN ARTIST AND TRYG TO NAVIGATE THE BS OF HOLLYWOOD NYG MY BLACKNS AND NYG MY QUEERNS, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SPACE FOR ME,” HE SAYS. “AND IF THERE IS SPACE, ’S ONLY A LTLE B. YOU N’T TAKE UP TOO MUCH. SO YOU ADAPT.” “I’VE SPENT SO MANY YEARS BEG AN ARTIST AND TRYG TO NAVIGATE THE BS OF HOLLYWOOD NYG MY BLACKNS AND NYG MY QUEERNS, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SPACE FOR ME.” BUT LIVERG THAT MONOLOGUE THE INSPECTN NNECTED HIM TO SOMETHG PERSONAL. “IT’S ABOUT LOVG MYSELF AND RPECTG MYSELF ENOUGH TO REALIZE THERE ARE CERTA RELATNSHIPS THAT I HAVE THAT DON’T SERVE THAT [LOVE]. AND BEE OF THAT, I HAVE TO BE WILLG TO LET THEM GO. BEE I NEED TO NTUE TO WALK TO MY PURPOSE. WHEN I WALK MY PURPOSE, GOOD THGS HAPPEN.”THAT PARTICULAR SCENE IS A TURNG POT FOR FRENCH, ONE THAT POPE REGNIZ, SOME WAYS, OM HIS OWN LIFE AND EXPERIENCE. “THAT IS HIM STEPPG HIS PURPOSE,” HE SAYS. “ONCE I STEPPED TO OWNG MY BLACKNS AND STOPPED BEG ASHAMED OF OWNG MY QUEERNS, THGS BEGAN TO HAPPEN THAT ARE VERY SGULAR AND TAILORED FOR ME MY EXPERIENCE MY JOURNEY AS AN ARTIST.”ROL LIKE THE ONE HE PLAYED CHOIR BOY, FOR EXAMPLE, OR THE ONE HE PLAYED HOLLYWOOD—A GAY, BLACK ASPIRG SCREENWRER A FICTNALIZED VERSN OF THE GOLN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD—DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. A SHOW LIKE POSE, WHICH HE JOED FOR S FAL SEASON, DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. THE DTRY IS CHANGG AND OPPORTUNY IS EXPANDG, BUT ALSO REQUIR ARTISTS BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE “FIRSTS” AT THE FOREONT OF THAT CHANGE. THEY FACE THE UNKNOWN OF WHAT ULD HAPPEN, BUT ALSO THE THRILLG POSSIBILY. A24 “I FEEL VERY GRATEFUL BEE I ULDN’T SEE THIS WHEN I HAD MY HEAD DOWN,” HE SAYS. “I THK ABOUT, IF ONLY I HAD SEEN SOMETHG LIKE CHOIR BOY OR THE INSPECTN, HOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO JT OPEN MY EY A B SOONER. AND MAYBE I WOULDN’T HAVE SPENT SO MANY YEARS HIDG AND SHAPE-SHIFTG TO BE SOME VERSN THAT ISN’T ME FOR SOME OTHER PERSON WHO DON’T ULTIMATELY SERVE ME, ISN’T GOG TO PROTECT ME, AND DON’T ULTIMATELY LOVE ME.”AND WHAT THOSE PEOPLE ALL THOSE YEARS AGO HAD WARNED HIM ABOUT—THAT IF HE TOOK PUBLIC PRI ALL ASPECTS OF HIS INTY, THAT HE WOULD LIM HIS REER—HAS PROVEN MONSTRABLY FALSE. IN 2019, FOR EXAMPLE, POPE DIDN’T JT STAR CHOIR BOY. HE PLAYED A MEMBER OF THE TEMPTATNS A’T TOO PROUD, AND WAS TONY-NOMATED FOR BOTH. HE -STARRED AS JACKIE WILSON 2020’S ONE NIGHT MIAMI. HE’S ABOUT TO STAR AS ARTIST JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT A STAGE AND UPG FILM PRODUCTN, THE COLLABORATN.“IT’S SHOWG ME THAT BOTH N EXIST, THAT I N DO BOTH,” HE SAYS. “THAT YOUR QUEERNS ISN’T YOUR ONLY INTY. THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE LIKE, ‘DON’T LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THAT [PART OF YOURSELF]. BEE THEN YOU’LL ONLY BE THAT.’ I’M NOT ONLY THAT. THAT’S JT A LAYER TO MY EXPERIENCE.” KEV FALLON
• JEREMY POPE EXAM MASCULY AS A GAY BLACK MARE ‘THE INSPECTN’
• JEREMY POPE WILL PLAY A GAY MARE ELEGANCE BRATTON’S FIRST FEATURE

Y, JEREMY POPE IS GAY AND DATG HIS PARTNER BENJAM JONATHAN, RELATNSHIP TIMELE

After Jeremy Pope me out as gay, fans were cur about his relatnship wh his boyiend. When Pope was starrg Choir Boy 2013, he me out as gay.

JEREMY POPE B, GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH, HEIGHT, FAY

Jeremy Pope is a real-life queer person who portrays a gay character Hollywood. In high school, he claimed he wasn’t ready to intify as gay or bisexual, but he later me to terms wh his sexualy.

JEREMY POPE IS READY TO BE A BLACK, QUEER HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARA NEW PATH“THE INSPECTN” IS THE FIRST LEAD ROLE A FILM FOR THE RISG IT BOY. AFTER YEARS OF BEG TOLD THAT BEG OUT AND PROUD WOULD LIM HIS REER, HE’S FG A NEW FUTURE.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED NOV. 16, 2022 4:54AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY LUIS G. RENDON/THE DAILY BEAST/A24JEREMY POPE DON’T SO MUCH REFLECT ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE MAKG THE INSPECTN AS PREACH ABOUT . THE FILM, WHICH IS OUT ON FRIDAY, IS THE FIRST LEADG ROLE FOR THE ACTOR, WHOSE RECENT HOT STREAK ON BROADWAY ( THE PLAY CHOIR BOY AND THE MIL A’T TOO PROUD) AND ON NETFLIX (RYAN MURPHY’S HOLLYWOOD) EARNED HIM TWO TONY NOMATNS AND AN EMMY NOD THE SPAN OF TWO YEARS.HE’S THE KD OF PERSON WHO BELIEV MOMENTS, AND THIS ONE—WH THIS FILM AND THIS ROLE—FEELS JT RIGHT. “FOR THIS TO BE MY BUT IS AN AFFIRMATN FOR ME TO NTUE TO WALK STEP, BEE THE THGS N AND WILL HAPPEN,” POPE TELLS THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED. “I TALK ABOUT HAVG TO HAVE AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF FAH YOURSELF AS AN ARTIST, AND BELIEVG THGS YOU N’T SEE. BUT ’S MORE SO BELIEVG THGS THAT THE WORLD ISN’T READY TO SEE FOR YOU YET.”WE’RE TALKG GEIA AT THE SCAD SAVANNAH FILM FTIVAL, WHERE POPE WON THE DISTGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD FOR THE INSPECTN.THE FILM IS WRTEN AND DIRECTED BY ELEGANCE BRATTON. IT’S BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE AS A YOUNG MAN WHO BEME HOMELS 20 YEARS AGO WHEN HIS MOTHER KICKED HIM OUT FOR BEG GAY. HE ENLISTED WH THE MAR TO FD STCTURE AND MEANG HIS LIFE, SPE BEG THE ERA OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL.” POPE PLAYS ELLIS FRENCH, AN AVATAR FOR BRATTON, WHO STGGL THROUGH THE UNFIVG, FULL METAL JACKET TENSY OF BOOT MP, ALL WHILE ATTEMPTG TO RENCILE HIS SEXUALY AND FEELG SPERATE TO FE A NNECTN AGA WH HIS MOTHER, PLAYED BY A NEARLY UNREGNIZABLE GABRIELLE UNN. A24 POPE ME OUT AS GAY 2013, WHEN HE WAS STARRG CHOIR BOY, THE PLAY BY MOONLIGHT OSR-WNER TARELL ALV MCRANEY ABOUT A MEMBER OF A GOSPEL CHOIR AT A PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR BLACK STUNTS STGGLG WH HIS SEXUALY. AS POPE MA PHONE LLS TO HIS FAY, IENDS, AND LLABORATORS, HE REFERRED TO THE PROCS AS VG OTHERS TO “E ” TO HIS INTY AND EXPERIENCE, RATHER THAN G OUT.THERE WERE PEOPLE OVER THE URSE OF HIS REER WHO WARNED HIM AGAST BEG PUBLIC ABOUT HIS QUEERNS.“GRADUATG LLEGE YEARS AGO, WAS THAT THG OF, LIKE, ‘DON’T BE OUT,” HE SAYS. “DON’T, BEE YOU WON’T GET JOBS. YOU WON’T WORK. IF PEOPLE KNOW THAT PIECE ABOUT YOU, THERE’S NO SUCCS. I DIDN’T GROW UP SEEG BLACK QUEER MOVIE STARS. IT’S NOT A THG.”IF POPE’S WORK THE INSPECTN SUGGTS ANYTHG, ’S THAT NOW IS. THERE’S AN CREDIBLE SCENE THE INSPECTN WHICH FRENCH AND THE CLOST THG HE HAS TO A NFIDANT AT BOOT MP, RAúL CASTILLO’S DRILL STCTOR ROSAL, ARE A VAN. FRENCH HAS JT SUFFERED AN EXPLOSIVE BREAKDOWN. ROSAL ASKS HIM WHY, GIVEN THE TOUGH TIME HE’S BEEN HAVG, HE WANTS TO BE A MARE.FRENCH’S EY IMMEDIATELY FILL WH TEARS. HIS MOM WON’T TALK TO HIM, HE SAYS. HIS IENDS ARE AD OR JAIL. HE’S OUT OF OPTNS HIS LIFE. “BUT IF I DIE THIS UNIFORM, I’M A HERO TO SOMEBODY.” HIS LIFE WOULD HAVE MEANT SOMETHG AFTER ALL. “ELEGANCE WAS HOMELS FOR MANY YEARS AND HAD REACHED SUCH A SPERATE PLACE THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE WORLD HAD SHOWED HIM THAT ‘BEE I’M BLACK AND QUEER, I DIE,’” POPE SAYS. “BUT HAVG THAT UNIFORM, HE ULD SAY, ‘WHEN I DIE, I’LL AT LEAST MATTER TO SOMEONE.’ THAT’S REALLY TOUGH TO KNOW, THAT THAT’S WHERE HIS BRA WENT. THAT [THIS OPTN] FELT MORE PROMISG THAN THE STREET THAT HE HAD BEEN LIVG ON FOR SO MANY YEARS.”THE SCENE IS AN EMOTNAL HIGH POT OF THE FILM. AND, THOUGH THE CIRCUMSTANC MAY BE SPECIFIC TO BRATTON’S LIFE, WHICH SPIRED THE STORYLE, THE SENTIMENT IS A POWERFUL THG TO UNRSTAND: AS POPE SAYS, “TO WANT TO MATTER.” GETTG TO CHANNEL THAT SIRE AND ARTICULATE THOSE WORDS WAS ONE OF THE MOST THARTIC MOMENTS OF HIS REER SO FAR.“I’VE SPENT SO MANY YEARS BEG AN ARTIST AND TRYG TO NAVIGATE THE BS OF HOLLYWOOD NYG MY BLACKNS AND NYG MY QUEERNS, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SPACE FOR ME,” HE SAYS. “AND IF THERE IS SPACE, ’S ONLY A LTLE B. YOU N’T TAKE UP TOO MUCH. SO YOU ADAPT.” “I’VE SPENT SO MANY YEARS BEG AN ARTIST AND TRYG TO NAVIGATE THE BS OF HOLLYWOOD NYG MY BLACKNS AND NYG MY QUEERNS, BEE DIDN’T FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SPACE FOR ME.” BUT LIVERG THAT MONOLOGUE THE INSPECTN NNECTED HIM TO SOMETHG PERSONAL. “IT’S ABOUT LOVG MYSELF AND RPECTG MYSELF ENOUGH TO REALIZE THERE ARE CERTA RELATNSHIPS THAT I HAVE THAT DON’T SERVE THAT [LOVE]. AND BEE OF THAT, I HAVE TO BE WILLG TO LET THEM GO. BEE I NEED TO NTUE TO WALK TO MY PURPOSE. WHEN I WALK MY PURPOSE, GOOD THGS HAPPEN.”THAT PARTICULAR SCENE IS A TURNG POT FOR FRENCH, ONE THAT POPE REGNIZ, SOME WAYS, OM HIS OWN LIFE AND EXPERIENCE. “THAT IS HIM STEPPG HIS PURPOSE,” HE SAYS. “ONCE I STEPPED TO OWNG MY BLACKNS AND STOPPED BEG ASHAMED OF OWNG MY QUEERNS, THGS BEGAN TO HAPPEN THAT ARE VERY SGULAR AND TAILORED FOR ME MY EXPERIENCE MY JOURNEY AS AN ARTIST.”ROL LIKE THE ONE HE PLAYED CHOIR BOY, FOR EXAMPLE, OR THE ONE HE PLAYED HOLLYWOOD—A GAY, BLACK ASPIRG SCREENWRER A FICTNALIZED VERSN OF THE GOLN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD—DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. A SHOW LIKE POSE, WHICH HE JOED FOR S FAL SEASON, DIDN’T EXIST BEFORE. THE DTRY IS CHANGG AND OPPORTUNY IS EXPANDG, BUT ALSO REQUIR ARTISTS BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE “FIRSTS” AT THE FOREONT OF THAT CHANGE. THEY FACE THE UNKNOWN OF WHAT ULD HAPPEN, BUT ALSO THE THRILLG POSSIBILY. A24 “I FEEL VERY GRATEFUL BEE I ULDN’T SEE THIS WHEN I HAD MY HEAD DOWN,” HE SAYS. “I THK ABOUT, IF ONLY I HAD SEEN SOMETHG LIKE CHOIR BOY OR THE INSPECTN, HOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO JT OPEN MY EY A B SOONER. AND MAYBE I WOULDN’T HAVE SPENT SO MANY YEARS HIDG AND SHAPE-SHIFTG TO BE SOME VERSN THAT ISN’T ME FOR SOME OTHER PERSON WHO DON’T ULTIMATELY SERVE ME, ISN’T GOG TO PROTECT ME, AND DON’T ULTIMATELY LOVE ME.”AND WHAT THOSE PEOPLE ALL THOSE YEARS AGO HAD WARNED HIM ABOUT—THAT IF HE TOOK PUBLIC PRI ALL ASPECTS OF HIS INTY, THAT HE WOULD LIM HIS REER—HAS PROVEN MONSTRABLY FALSE. IN 2019, FOR EXAMPLE, POPE DIDN’T JT STAR CHOIR BOY. HE PLAYED A MEMBER OF THE TEMPTATNS A’T TOO PROUD, AND WAS TONY-NOMATED FOR BOTH. HE -STARRED AS JACKIE WILSON 2020’S ONE NIGHT MIAMI. HE’S ABOUT TO STAR AS ARTIST JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT A STAGE AND UPG FILM PRODUCTN, THE COLLABORATN.“IT’S SHOWG ME THAT BOTH N EXIST, THAT I N DO BOTH,” HE SAYS. “THAT YOUR QUEERNS ISN’T YOUR ONLY INTY. THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE LIKE, ‘DON’T LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THAT [PART OF YOURSELF]. BEE THEN YOU’LL ONLY BE THAT.’ I’M NOT ONLY THAT. THAT’S JT A LAYER TO MY EXPERIENCE.” KEV FALLON

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JEREMY POPE EXAM MASCULY AS A GAY BLACK MARE ‘THE INSPECTN’

Jeremy Pope Gay, Partner, Datg.

However, he reaed om intifyg as eher bisexual or gay. “Frhman or sophomore year of high school, I was alg wh my sexualy… I hadn’t really explored wh other guys, but I had been wh girls… I thk I like both.

But I wasn’t ready to intify wh the label of gay or bisexual — I remember how they ame as a choice the church… “.

JEREMY POPE WILL PLAY A GAY MARE ELEGANCE BRATTON’S FIRST FEATURE

Intertg: Derek Blasberg Gay, Partner, Datg, Net Worth. It’s based on his experience as a young man who beme homels 20 years ago when his mother kicked him out for beg gay. A24 Pope me out as gay 2013, when he was starrg Choir Boy, the play by Moonlight Osr-wner Tarell Alv McRaney about a member of a gospel choir at a preparatory school for Black stunts stgglg wh his sexualy.

”Rol like the one he played Choir Boy, for example, or the one he played Hollywood—a gay, Black aspirg screenwrer a fictnalized versn of the Goln Age of Hollywood—didn’t exist before. ”He also mentns that he didn’t know of any Black gay movie stars when he was growg up.

” Carter for The New York TimThe ProjectnistAs the Tony-nomated actor segu to the big screen the gay ary drama “The Inspectn, ” he reflects on years of shame and learng to accept himself. ’”Based on the wrer-director Elegance Bratton’s life story, “The Inspectn” sts Pope as Ellis French, a young gay man who’s been kicked out of the hoe by his mother, Inez (Gabrielle Unn), a flty prison guard who won’t accept his sexualy.