It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty.
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- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
- MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
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. * mac always sunny gay dance *
Revealed as a gay man at the end of the prev season, Mac is still unable to fd his footg the world. “I don’t know where I f as a gay man, and ’s startg to get to me, " Mac tells Danny DeVo's Frank.
Not only do “Mac Fds His Pri” nta heartfelt dialogue — like Mac admtg to Frank, “I don’t know where I f as a gay man and ’s startg to get to me. In the fale, Frank (Danny DeVo) is tryg to nvce Mac to prance on the gang’s gay pri para float, but Mac isn’t feelg . In his own way, Frank tri to help: “I never really got you and, to be hont, now that you’re gay I get you even ls.
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.
MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * mac always sunny gay dance *
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.
'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
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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.
It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father * mac always sunny gay dance *
")"I don't know where I f as a gay man and 's startg to get to me, " an earnt Mac tells Frank. I really didn't unrstand and I don't get the nnectn between dancg wh a woman and beg gay, I was expectg his dad to say "What the fuck is happeng" when he stood up e I didn't know what was happeng neher.
A or so ago, Mac was ostensibly around season four beme abundantly clear that the only straight Mac was--as Sweet Dee and McElhenney's real-life wife Kal Olsen puts --was "straight up gay.
And he wants what any God-fearg Christian man wants:Mac's obssn wh relign is also a direct rult of the guilt he feels for beg gay, a guilt his (played by Seann William Stt) do not share:Bee It's Always Sunny is far om your typil s, Mac's homo guilt don't manift self any typil ways. Instead, Mac's relign is hot check out his visn of what Heaven is 's ternalized his homosexualy so much that he remas blissfully unaware of jt how gay he is--that is, until the latt episo when all that nuendo me flyg out of the closet and Mac realized what everyone has known all "The Gang Go to Hell, " Mac's relig fanaticism draws the gang to a Christian cise, but 's the kd of Christian cise that wel gays, as Mac fds out too late.
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When he se a uple kissg on the shuffle board urt, he seeks an answer om God and he cis to nvert the gays--for their own good. The gays are havg none of , however, and suggt that they nvert mut later:Sometim all tak is the love of a good man. Followg his high seas sexpa, Mac also to the ncln that there's no God, but before we n see what all this means for the gang, they apparently end up--as the episo tle suggts--, this episo was part one the two-part season fale, so we'll probably have to wa till next year for the Adventur of Gay Mac.