"I thought that orr to be happy, I need to be straight," said the out gay "Bridgerton" star.
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- BRIDGERTON'S JONATHAN BAILEY TALKS BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WORKG TODAY
- WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?
BRIDGERTON'S JONATHAN BAILEY TALKS BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WORKG TODAY
The openly gay actor, who me out his early twenti, has spoken up about feelg like " orr to be happy I need to be straight" * bridgerton anthony gay mi *
The 33-year-old Bridgerton star, who portrays Anthony Bridgerton on the Netflix h, opened up about his experience g out as gay a new profile wh GQ.
WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?
Out gay actor Jonathan Bailey is playg a straight character 'Bridgerton' and says that's "exactly the way should be." Details. * bridgerton anthony gay mi *
Thkg back to the early days of his reer, Bailey relled how one of his actor iends was once told durg pilot season, "There's two thgs we don't want to know: if you're an alholic or if you're gay. Though Bailey's Bridgerton character intifi as straight, the actor has prevly argued that gay men should be able to play their own experienc on the screen.
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"I thk shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of urse, there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playg straight leadg rol, " he told Digal Spy December 2020. "And also, there's a reason why gay characters are so tertg.
Bee much like the women Bridgerton, there are a lot of hurdl and there's a lot of self-growth, and there's a real strength to gay men. Bailey ntued, "So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play inic gay rol and to be ld for that is fantastic, that that story is beg told. But wouldn't be brilliant to see gay men play their own experience?
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Speakg wh GQ UK, Jonathan Bailey, who is openly gay, discsed the challeng of addrsg his sexualy publicly. “At the time he was told, ‘There’s two thgs we don’t want to know: if you’re an alholic or if you’re gay…’ All tak is for one of those people that posn of power to say that, and rippl through… so, yeah, of urse I thought that.
While he was publicly out before Bridgerton, beg a proment gay actor a major streamg TV show n serve as a step towards improvg this reprentatn Hollywood. When asked about his experience as a gay actor, Jonathan revealed that a iend and fellow actor, who is also openly LGBTQIA+, was told durg pilot week; "There’s two thgs we don’t want to know: if you’re an alholic or if you’re gay. It’s jt there had never been a need to talk about , " he the same terview, he also discsed the stigma which still fac LGBTQIA+ men the entertament world, sayg; "There’s a sense of shame, I thk, that’s palpable throughout gay men wh the dtry.
Speakg to Attu, he relled that the procs volved; "[T]hkg about my experienc and those of my iends, how they are and how they see themselv gay culture, what we aspire to and where we want to be our relatnships. "Everyone Should Be Able to Play Everythg" — Jonathan Bailey on Playg a Straight Character 'Bridgerton'Out gay actor Jonathan Bailey is playg a straight character 'Bridgerton' and says that's "exactly the way should be.