It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty.
Contents:
- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR EXPLAS WHY SHOW MA NSERVATIVE CHARACTER GAY
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
- ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS GAY
- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
'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. * always sunny gay character *
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.
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR EXPLAS WHY SHOW MA NSERVATIVE CHARACTER GAY
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * always sunny gay character *
' 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.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season 14. * always sunny gay character *
"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.
MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
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... * always sunny gay character *
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. 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.
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.
ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS GAY
‘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 * always sunny gay character *
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.
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
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At this pot the seri, they probably didn’t yet have any tentn to make Mac gay. Season Six — “Mac Fights Gay Marriage”.