Rob McElhenney's character Mac me out as gay on It's Always Sunny, and ahead of season 14, he's vowed to rema awful.
Contents:
- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
- ALWAYS SUNNY'S ROB MCELHENNEY YELLS 'GAY RIGHTS!,' GO VIRAL
- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
- ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS GAY
- THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
- ALWAYS SUNNY GANG, SANS DENNIS, TEASE MAC'S GAY PRI, ALL-FEMALE REBOOT EPISOS SEASON 13
'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
Rob McElhenney, creator and star of It's Always Sunny Philalphia, spoke about the cisn to make his character Mac openly gay on the ntroversial s. * gay character always sunny *
This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic.
And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay. "Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them. "The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.
"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season 14. * gay character always sunny *
'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season Sep. In Season 11, the wrers ially had Rob’s character e out as gay to his iends, but he eventually cid to "go back the closet.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * gay character always sunny *
" So, what prompted Rob (who also -created the show) to make Mac It’s Always Sunny gay? It’s Always Sunny star Rob McElhenney talks about makg Mac an terview wh Rollg Stone, Rob talked about why he cid to make his super nservative character gay.
' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic, ” he elaborated.
Why the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ wrers cid to make Mac gay. McElhenney says the cisn to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character’s ultra-nservative beliefs.
MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father * gay character always sunny *
’ And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. And that’s when I thought, ‘Let’s jt make him gay. Though may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the velopment me to them later.
But somethg that ught their attentn was the reactn they received when Mac me out as gay. “There was an episo where we had a nng gag that Mac was the closet and refed to e out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him. The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.
The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. “We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very f*cked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
ALWAYS SUNNY'S ROB MCELHENNEY YELLS 'GAY RIGHTS!,' GO VIRAL
‘It’s Always Sunny Philalphia’ creator Rob McElhenney may thk he’s exposg hypocrisy by makg the ultranservative Mac gay, but he’s perpetuatg a trope that absolv the straight muny of rponsibily for homophobia, says Louis Stapl * gay character always sunny *
He don't see himself as a homosexual for beg attracted to Carmen. Of the rpective idsyncrasi of The Always Sunny Philalphia gang — such as Charlie beg illerate and Dennis beg a sexual predator — one of the funnier nng gags throughout the seri has been Mac’s latent homosexualy.
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty. * gay character always sunny *
In Wednday night’s “The Gang Group Dat, ” at one pot Dennis refers to Mac as “the gay one” and at another pot when he turns to Mac and tells him that he riv his self worth om “nvcg himself that he’s tough and straight, ” Mac fir back “I am tough. Of urse, what mak the joke work is that Mac himself is probably the only one that don’t know that Mac is gay. If he were jt a guy stgglg to bottle up his homosexualy, that would jt be prsg, and a different kd of show.
But as a strict Catholic, Mac has reprsed his homosexualy so much that he don’t even unrstand his fatuatn wh badass tough guys is bee he wants to have sex wh them. FXX has renewed Always Sunny for two more seasons followg the 10th, which I n only assume will fally be the seri’ last, and I’m really hopg before ends we get an episo lled “Mac Realiz He’s Gay.
” Until then, I’ve put together this timele that outl Mac’s homosexualy as bubbl ever closer to the surface.
ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS GAY
Ronald "Mac" McDonald is a gay character om FX's It's Always Sunny Philalphia. Mac hails om a workg class Irish-Catholic fay South Philalphia. He is Dennis Reynolds' roommate of many years, and has been bt iends wh Charlie Kelly sce childhood. Mac is a member of The... * gay character always sunny *
At this pot the seri, they probably didn’t yet have any tentn to make Mac gay.
Season Six — “Mac Fights Gay Marriage”.
THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
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Mac go on a csa agast gay marriage bee after pletg her transn to a woman, Carmen married a man named Nick. Mac sists that Nick is gay sce Carmen was born a man, seemg to miss the irony that he had sex wh Carmen before she pleted the operatn, clarg their marriage to be a “gay marriage.
This is the episo, which the gang participat a day that revolv pletely around Mac, they fally and fively realize: “I know we’ve never said this as a group, but Mac’s gay.
Mac’s “Country Mac” shows up — and not only is he tougher and more of a badass every sgle way than Mac is, but he’s also openly gay. While geics have never been scientifilly proven to have a role sexual orientatn, ’s always been a strongly held theory, so would make sense that Mac would have a gay . (Actually two gay s, as Mac ns to another gay Paddy’s the seri premiere when they accintally turn to a gay bar.
ALWAYS SUNNY GANG, SANS DENNIS, TEASE MAC'S GAY PRI, ALL-FEMALE REBOOT EPISOS SEASON 13
No character on televisn better reprents the tentn of their show better than Ronald MacDonald (aka gay Mac) of 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia.' We take a look back at Mac's journey om closeted Christian to openly gay male. * gay character always sunny *
” But jt to le out, he volunteers to see if the leprechn might have a pot of gold at the end of the rabow — this se the “rabow” beg a fictnal Philalphia gay bar actually lled The Rabow, which he bravely volunteers to search solo.
When the gang cis to go on a booze-ee Christian cise, Mac is ially flummoxed to meet a married Christian gay uple, pletely throwg a wrench to his nstant ternal stggle.