'The Whe Lot' Gay Sex Scene Explaed by Mike Whe - Variety

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• MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
• ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
• FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
• NEED A NEW TV OBSSN? RIGHT THIS WAY TO HBO'S THE WHE LOT MIKE WHE’S NEW LIMED SERI, WH CONNIE BRTON, JENNIFER COOLIDGE AND MORE, NCERNS RICH, SELF-ABSORBED WHE PEOPLE WHO GO TO HAWAII—AND TAKE ALL THEIR DANGERO BS WH THEM. BY CASSIE DA COSTAJULY 7, 2021BY MAR PEREZ/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN 2011, WRER-DIRECTOR MIKE WHE ENCHANTED AN PECIALLY VOTED SECTOR OF THE PRTIGE-TV-SERI-WATCHG PUBLIC WH ENLIGHTENED. THE SHOW WAS AN ULTRA-WOO, ENVIRONMENTALLY-NSC, EARNT SATIRE OF SORTS, STARRG LRA DERN, WHO ALSO -CREATED THE SHOW WH WHE. IN THE SHOW, DERN PLAYS AMY JELLIE, A VERY CALIFORNIAN RPORATE EXECUTIVE WHO HAS A PSYCHIC BREAK AND GETS MOTED POST-REHAB ONLY TO BEG UNRAVELG A NSPIRACY THAT GO TO THE VERY TOP OF THE PANY—AND THAT NO ONE BUT HER R ABOUT. ITS MIXTURE OF HILARY, SOULFULNS, ODDY, AND SENSE OF RIGHTEO DIGNATN IS WHE’S SIGNATURE, A DIFFICULT BALANCE TO PULL OFF–HONORG THE SOMETIM-RIGHTNS OF OTHERWISE RIDICULO PEOPLE WHILE KEEPG A CLOSE EYE ON THE SUAL RPTN OF THOSE POWER.MOST CRICS WILL GH OVER THE SHOW IF YOU GIVE THEM HALF A CHANCE, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. ITS TONAL SPECIFICY—CLUDG PERFECTLY PCHED PERFORMANC OM DERN, HER REAL-LIFE MOTHER DIANNE LADD, MICHAELA WATKS, MOLLY SHANNON, LE WILSON, AND WHE HIMSELF–ALLOW S IOLOGIL PLEXY TO SHE THROUGH. UNFORTUNATELY, S QUALY WASN’T ENOUGH TO GET THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO WATCH , AND SO HBO NCELED THE SHOW AFTER TWO SEASONS.NOW, WHE GETS ANOTHER GO AT WH THE WHE LOT, A THEMATIC FOLLOW-UP TO HIS 2017 FILM BEATRIZ AT DNER, DIRECTED BY MIGUEL ARTETA, ABOUT A MEXIN MASSAGE THERAPIST (SALMA HAYEK) WHO UNEXPECTEDLY JOS THE BS DNER OF A WEALTHY FAY SHE ED TO WORK FOR. THE WHE LOT IS LS SULAR, THOUGH SIARLY CLSTROPHOBIC; AND UNLIKE ENLIGHTENED S CENTRAL MYSTERY NARRATIVE FEELS URGENT TO UNRAVEL: SOMEBODY DIED, BUT WHO WAS ?THE SIX-EPISO LIMED SERI TAK PLACE ENTIRELY AT AN EPONYMO RORT HAWAII. ATRALIAN ACTOR MURRAY BARTLETT, WHO STARRED AS THE HUNKY GAY SAN FRANCISN DOM THE HBO SERI LOOKG, PLAYS THE RORT’S MANAGER ARMOND, WHO DONS A PLASTERED ON SE AND SYMPATHETIC GAZE THAT BEG TO FLICKER OVER TIME. ARMOND, LIKE DOM DID LOOKG, FEELS TRAPPED THE SERVICE DTRY, WORN DOWN BY THE PHYSIL AND EMOTNAL LABOR MAND BY EXTREMELY WEALTHY PATRONS AND UNSYMPATHETIC BOSS. UNLIKE DOM, HE DON’T HAVE A DREAM TO KEEP HIM FOCED. INSTEAD, ARMOND GETS UGHT UP WH A PARTICULARLY OBNOX GUT, SHANE PATTON, PLAYED BY THE SEEMGLY OMNIPRENT JAKE LACY, NVCG AS AN ULTRA-RICH BLOWHARD WHO TURNS TO HIS MOMMY FOR HELP.BUT OF URSE, THERE ARE MANY OTHERS. THOUGH THE WHE LOT, LIKE ENLIGHTENED AND BEATRIZ AT DNER, ALS SIGNIFINTLY WH CLASS AND POWER, ’S LS TERTED HOW A MA CHARACTER NAVIGAT THAT WORLD THAN HOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE BEE TERNNECTED THE DYNAMICS; ’S A FULLY ENSEMBLE SHOW. INSECURE BREAKOUT NATASHA ROTHWELL IS BELDA, A TALENTED WELLNS PRACTNER AT THE RORT WHOSE PATIENCE, EMPATHY, AND TOUCH DAZZL RICH SGLE WHE FEMALE TANYA, PLAYED ENTRANCGLY BY AN EVER-ABSURD JENNIFER COOLIDGE. ALEXANDRA DADDAR PLAYS RACHEL, LACY’S FORMERLY BROKE NEW WIFE. SHE’S A MEDCRE JOURNALIST WH A SLIGHTLY BEFUDDLG SENSE OF DRS, WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE BETIFUL. EUPHORIA’S SYDNEY SWEENEY AND LTLE VOICE’S BRTANY O’GRADY ARE OLIVIA AND PLA, LLEGE IENDS WH SIGNIFINTLY DIFFERG EXPERIENC OF RACE AND CLASS—OLIVIA IS RICH, WHE, AND PLA IS THE LUCKY ONE SHE GETS TO BRG ON FAY VATN—BUT SIAR SENS OF WELL-TED SUPERRY. THEY READ NIETZSCHE AND FANON BY THE POOL, JUDGE ALMOST EVERYONE HARSHLY BUT THEMSELV, AND OSTRACIZE OLIVIA’S AWKWARD YOUNGER BROTHER QUN (FRED HECHGER). OLIVIA AND QUN’S PARENTS ARE THE SHERYL SANDBERG-QUE NILE MOSSBACHER (CONNIE BRTON) AND HER WET BLANKET OF A HBAND MARK (STEVE ZAHN).ALL OF THE PEOPLE ARE WHE EXCEPT BELDA, PLA, AND A HANDFUL OF HAWAIIAN RORT WORKERS WHO ARE NOT MERELY EMPLOYED AS HOSPALY WORKERS BUT ALSO AS PERFORMERS OF LOL THENTICY FOR RICH GUTS. PLA STRIK UP A ROMANCE WH BELLBOY AND DIGENO HAWAIIAN KAI (KEKOA KEKUMANO) THAT BEGS TO DRAW HER AWAY OM HER ALLIANCE WH OLIVIA, AND FORC HER TO RECKON WH A POSSIBLE REAL-LIFE APPLITN OF HER ANTI-LONIAL READG MATERIAL. ANOTHER EUPHORIA ALUM, LAS GAGE, PLAYS A YOUNG, WHE SURFER-BUM-TYPE RORT WORKER, WHO VELOPS AN UNEASY RELATNSHIP WH HIS BOSS, THE UNRAVELG ARMOND, PLAYED BY BARTLETT.IT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE TO KEEP TRACK OF, YET WHE’S WRG AND DIRECTN TERTWE THEIR STORI AN AMB, NOVELISTIC MANNER. THERE’S THE MORBID FUN OF TRYG TO GUS WHO DI AND HOW, AS WELL AS THE SUBTLER WORK OF UNRSTANDG THE CHARACTERS, NONE OF WHOSE BEHAVRS ARE EASY TO PREDICT. AT THE POOL, THE SELF-QUTNG RACHEL APPROACH NILE, AN IDOL OF HERS WHO SHE HAPPENED TO PROFILE A PHONED-, CLICKBAY WAY FOR BSWEEK. RACHEL WANTS ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO NTUE HER REER NOW THAT SHE’S MARRIED MONEY‚ BUT SHE DON’T QUE GET THE WOMAN-TO-WOMAN PROFSNAL ENUNTER SHE HOP FOR. MEANWHILE, ROTHWELL’S BELDA RELUCTANTLY BONDS WH COOLIDGE’S OFF-THE-RAILS TANYA OVER THE ATHS OF THEIR MOTHERS, AND ALLOWS HERSELF TO BE WOOED BY THE PROMISE OF A BETTER—IF SOMEWHAT PROMISED—LIFE.BUT ’S BARTLETT, A TV VETERAN LONG OVERDUE FOR A HEFTY PART LIKE THIS, WHO HOLDS THE ST TOGETHER. ARMOND GO OM ANNOYG TO SYMPATHETIC TO LICLY VENGEFUL AND BACK AROUND AGA. YOU FEEL ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG FOR HIM, SEEG BOTH THE UGLS OF THE RORT THROUGH HIS EY AND QUTNG HIS OWN MOTIV AND E OF POWER. HE’S A WHE WORKG CLASS GAY MAN, A REVERG ADDICT WHO’S BEEN SOBER FIVE YEARS, AND A PAFULLY SELF-AWARE HTLER. PERHAPS NO ONE THE SHOW IS WISER ABOUT HOW VULNERABLE WE BEE WHEN WE ZY UP TO THE POWERFUL, AND KNOWGLY, OR UNTENTNALLY, STEP OUTSI OUR OWN SOCENOMIC CIRCL AND NTEND WH THE CHOSEN FEW. THE WHE LOT CELEBRAT THE RECKLSNS OF THE EXCHANG WHILE QUTNG THEIR CENTRAL MOTIVATNS: MONEY, RPECT, AND ATTENTN. WHY ARE WE SO SPERATE TO BE SEEN BY THOSE WHO ONLY WANT TO SEE ON THEIR OWN TERMS? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RIST THIS SIRE—AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GIVE ?MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AN EXCLIVE DEEP DIVE INTO PETER JACKSON’S THE BEATL: GET BACK— JOSEPH FIENN ON HIS HANDMAID’S TALE FATE— THE 10 BT MOVI OF 2021 (SO FAR)— JANE LEVY ON THE ZOEY’S EXTRAORDARY PLAYLIST CANCELLATN— IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE?— HOW PHYSIL GOT UNR ROSE BYRNE’S SK— WHAT IS BO BURNHAM’S INSI REALLY TRYG TO SAY?— SIMU LIU IS READY TO TAKE ON MARVEL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JACKIE AND JOAN COLLS, QUEENS OF THE ROAD— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDCASSIE DA COSTA

MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’

” (Mar Perez/HBO) “I didn’t want him to be a mpy riture of a gay man, ” says Bartlett — who’s been out his entire reer — by phone om Los Angel when asked about his Armond approach.

Both feature a character walkg on gay sex behd closed doors, and both occur two episos before the fale. “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe said.

‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD

Edor's note: this post ntas spoilers for episo five of The Whe Lot season 's givg a weeks-long tease, we fally got a gay sex scene on season two of The Whe Lot. In a classic Whe Lot twist, though, a gay sex scene me om somewhere else entirely.

FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?

Introduced episo three, wealthy gay man Quent (Tom Hollanr) is at the Whe Lot hotel Sicily wh a group of gay iends. Though most of them are rich olr gays, there are a few younger men their pany, cludg Jack (Leo Woodall), a charmg and sexy guy om Essex who refers to Quent as his "uncle.

Quent's personaly, accent, and tast f the archetypil "proper wealthy Brish gay man, " whereas Jack looks and sounds like a future st member of Love Island. Sendly, if a rich gay man like Quent were to hire a few younger guys to "enterta" him and his group of iends durg a trip to Sicily, stands to reason that someone like Jack would lie to Portia about Quent beg his uncle, not his "employer. Do all whe Lot hotels have a gay manager?

NEED A NEW TV OBSSN? RIGHT THIS WAY TO HBO'S THE WHE LOT MIKE WHE’S NEW LIMED SERI, WH CONNIE BRTON, JENNIFER COOLIDGE AND MORE, NCERNS RICH, SELF-ABSORBED WHE PEOPLE WHO GO TO HAWAII—AND TAKE ALL THEIR DANGERO BS WH THEM. BY CASSIE DA COSTAJULY 7, 2021BY MAR PEREZ/HBO.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN 2011, WRER-DIRECTOR MIKE WHE ENCHANTED AN PECIALLY VOTED SECTOR OF THE PRTIGE-TV-SERI-WATCHG PUBLIC WH ENLIGHTENED. THE SHOW WAS AN ULTRA-WOO, ENVIRONMENTALLY-NSC, EARNT SATIRE OF SORTS, STARRG LRA DERN, WHO ALSO -CREATED THE SHOW WH WHE. IN THE SHOW, DERN PLAYS AMY JELLIE, A VERY CALIFORNIAN RPORATE EXECUTIVE WHO HAS A PSYCHIC BREAK AND GETS MOTED POST-REHAB ONLY TO BEG UNRAVELG A NSPIRACY THAT GO TO THE VERY TOP OF THE PANY—AND THAT NO ONE BUT HER R ABOUT. ITS MIXTURE OF HILARY, SOULFULNS, ODDY, AND SENSE OF RIGHTEO DIGNATN IS WHE’S SIGNATURE, A DIFFICULT BALANCE TO PULL OFF–HONORG THE SOMETIM-RIGHTNS OF OTHERWISE RIDICULO PEOPLE WHILE KEEPG A CLOSE EYE ON THE SUAL RPTN OF THOSE POWER.MOST CRICS WILL GH OVER THE SHOW IF YOU GIVE THEM HALF A CHANCE, AND RIGHTFULLY SO. ITS TONAL SPECIFICY—CLUDG PERFECTLY PCHED PERFORMANC OM DERN, HER REAL-LIFE MOTHER DIANNE LADD, MICHAELA WATKS, MOLLY SHANNON, LE WILSON, AND WHE HIMSELF–ALLOW S IOLOGIL PLEXY TO SHE THROUGH. UNFORTUNATELY, S QUALY WASN’T ENOUGH TO GET THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO WATCH , AND SO HBO NCELED THE SHOW AFTER TWO SEASONS.NOW, WHE GETS ANOTHER GO AT WH THE WHE LOT, A THEMATIC FOLLOW-UP TO HIS 2017 FILM BEATRIZ AT DNER, DIRECTED BY MIGUEL ARTETA, ABOUT A MEXIN MASSAGE THERAPIST (SALMA HAYEK) WHO UNEXPECTEDLY JOS THE BS DNER OF A WEALTHY FAY SHE ED TO WORK FOR. THE WHE LOT IS LS SULAR, THOUGH SIARLY CLSTROPHOBIC; AND UNLIKE ENLIGHTENED S CENTRAL MYSTERY NARRATIVE FEELS URGENT TO UNRAVEL: SOMEBODY DIED, BUT WHO WAS ?THE SIX-EPISO LIMED SERI TAK PLACE ENTIRELY AT AN EPONYMO RORT HAWAII. ATRALIAN ACTOR MURRAY BARTLETT, WHO STARRED AS THE HUNKY GAY SAN FRANCISN DOM THE HBO SERI LOOKG, PLAYS THE RORT’S MANAGER ARMOND, WHO DONS A PLASTERED ON SE AND SYMPATHETIC GAZE THAT BEG TO FLICKER OVER TIME. ARMOND, LIKE DOM DID LOOKG, FEELS TRAPPED THE SERVICE DTRY, WORN DOWN BY THE PHYSIL AND EMOTNAL LABOR MAND BY EXTREMELY WEALTHY PATRONS AND UNSYMPATHETIC BOSS. UNLIKE DOM, HE DON’T HAVE A DREAM TO KEEP HIM FOCED. INSTEAD, ARMOND GETS UGHT UP WH A PARTICULARLY OBNOX GUT, SHANE PATTON, PLAYED BY THE SEEMGLY OMNIPRENT JAKE LACY, NVCG AS AN ULTRA-RICH BLOWHARD WHO TURNS TO HIS MOMMY FOR HELP.BUT OF URSE, THERE ARE MANY OTHERS. THOUGH THE WHE LOT, LIKE ENLIGHTENED AND BEATRIZ AT DNER, ALS SIGNIFINTLY WH CLASS AND POWER, ’S LS TERTED HOW A MA CHARACTER NAVIGAT THAT WORLD THAN HOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE BEE TERNNECTED THE DYNAMICS; ’S A FULLY ENSEMBLE SHOW. INSECURE BREAKOUT NATASHA ROTHWELL IS BELDA, A TALENTED WELLNS PRACTNER AT THE RORT WHOSE PATIENCE, EMPATHY, AND TOUCH DAZZL RICH SGLE WHE FEMALE TANYA, PLAYED ENTRANCGLY BY AN EVER-ABSURD JENNIFER COOLIDGE. ALEXANDRA DADDAR PLAYS RACHEL, LACY’S FORMERLY BROKE NEW WIFE. SHE’S A MEDCRE JOURNALIST WH A SLIGHTLY BEFUDDLG SENSE OF DRS, WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE BETIFUL. EUPHORIA’S SYDNEY SWEENEY AND LTLE VOICE’S BRTANY O’GRADY ARE OLIVIA AND PLA, LLEGE IENDS WH SIGNIFINTLY DIFFERG EXPERIENC OF RACE AND CLASS—OLIVIA IS RICH, WHE, AND PLA IS THE LUCKY ONE SHE GETS TO BRG ON FAY VATN—BUT SIAR SENS OF WELL-TED SUPERRY. THEY READ NIETZSCHE AND FANON BY THE POOL, JUDGE ALMOST EVERYONE HARSHLY BUT THEMSELV, AND OSTRACIZE OLIVIA’S AWKWARD YOUNGER BROTHER QUN (FRED HECHGER). OLIVIA AND QUN’S PARENTS ARE THE SHERYL SANDBERG-QUE NILE MOSSBACHER (CONNIE BRTON) AND HER WET BLANKET OF A HBAND MARK (STEVE ZAHN).ALL OF THE PEOPLE ARE WHE EXCEPT BELDA, PLA, AND A HANDFUL OF HAWAIIAN RORT WORKERS WHO ARE NOT MERELY EMPLOYED AS HOSPALY WORKERS BUT ALSO AS PERFORMERS OF LOL THENTICY FOR RICH GUTS. PLA STRIK UP A ROMANCE WH BELLBOY AND DIGENO HAWAIIAN KAI (KEKOA KEKUMANO) THAT BEGS TO DRAW HER AWAY OM HER ALLIANCE WH OLIVIA, AND FORC HER TO RECKON WH A POSSIBLE REAL-LIFE APPLITN OF HER ANTI-LONIAL READG MATERIAL. ANOTHER EUPHORIA ALUM, LAS GAGE, PLAYS A YOUNG, WHE SURFER-BUM-TYPE RORT WORKER, WHO VELOPS AN UNEASY RELATNSHIP WH HIS BOSS, THE UNRAVELG ARMOND, PLAYED BY BARTLETT.IT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE TO KEEP TRACK OF, YET WHE’S WRG AND DIRECTN TERTWE THEIR STORI AN AMB, NOVELISTIC MANNER. THERE’S THE MORBID FUN OF TRYG TO GUS WHO DI AND HOW, AS WELL AS THE SUBTLER WORK OF UNRSTANDG THE CHARACTERS, NONE OF WHOSE BEHAVRS ARE EASY TO PREDICT. AT THE POOL, THE SELF-QUTNG RACHEL APPROACH NILE, AN IDOL OF HERS WHO SHE HAPPENED TO PROFILE A PHONED-, CLICKBAY WAY FOR BSWEEK. RACHEL WANTS ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO NTUE HER REER NOW THAT SHE’S MARRIED MONEY‚ BUT SHE DON’T QUE GET THE WOMAN-TO-WOMAN PROFSNAL ENUNTER SHE HOP FOR. MEANWHILE, ROTHWELL’S BELDA RELUCTANTLY BONDS WH COOLIDGE’S OFF-THE-RAILS TANYA OVER THE ATHS OF THEIR MOTHERS, AND ALLOWS HERSELF TO BE WOOED BY THE PROMISE OF A BETTER—IF SOMEWHAT PROMISED—LIFE.BUT ’S BARTLETT, A TV VETERAN LONG OVERDUE FOR A HEFTY PART LIKE THIS, WHO HOLDS THE ST TOGETHER. ARMOND GO OM ANNOYG TO SYMPATHETIC TO LICLY VENGEFUL AND BACK AROUND AGA. YOU FEEL ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG FOR HIM, SEEG BOTH THE UGLS OF THE RORT THROUGH HIS EY AND QUTNG HIS OWN MOTIV AND E OF POWER. HE’S A WHE WORKG CLASS GAY MAN, A REVERG ADDICT WHO’S BEEN SOBER FIVE YEARS, AND A PAFULLY SELF-AWARE HTLER. PERHAPS NO ONE THE SHOW IS WISER ABOUT HOW VULNERABLE WE BEE WHEN WE ZY UP TO THE POWERFUL, AND KNOWGLY, OR UNTENTNALLY, STEP OUTSI OUR OWN SOCENOMIC CIRCL AND NTEND WH THE CHOSEN FEW. THE WHE LOT CELEBRAT THE RECKLSNS OF THE EXCHANG WHILE QUTNG THEIR CENTRAL MOTIVATNS: MONEY, RPECT, AND ATTENTN. WHY ARE WE SO SPERATE TO BE SEEN BY THOSE WHO ONLY WANT TO SEE ON THEIR OWN TERMS? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE RIST THIS SIRE—AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GIVE ?MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— AN EXCLIVE DEEP DIVE INTO PETER JACKSON’S THE BEATL: GET BACK— JOSEPH FIENN ON HIS HANDMAID’S TALE FATE— THE 10 BT MOVI OF 2021 (SO FAR)— JANE LEVY ON THE ZOEY’S EXTRAORDARY PLAYLIST CANCELLATN— IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE?— HOW PHYSIL GOT UNR ROSE BYRNE’S SK— WHAT IS BO BURNHAM’S INSI REALLY TRYG TO SAY?— SIMU LIU IS READY TO TAKE ON MARVEL— FROM THE ARCHIVE: JACKIE AND JOAN COLLS, QUEENS OF THE ROAD— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDCASSIE DA COSTA

Bartlett, whose break Ameri me via a Sex and the Cy episo, playg a handsome gay shoe importer who dazzl Carrie the episo “All That Glters, ” has had other major rol HBO drama Lookg and the most recent screen eratn of Tal of the Cy.

”Armond’s sexualy is not the reason for his ath, so if he is no more, is not a homophobic murr. I hear what you’re sayg about gay characters historilly gettg a raw al, but for me Armond beg gay has nothg to do wh him dyg.

It didn’t feel like was any kid of rogatory diss on queer people or a gay man. ”“I do thk there are still lgerg stigmas, and some ceilgs to break through”In his standout rol—as Armond The Whe Lot, as Dom Lookg, and as Michael Tolliver the most recent screen eratn of Armistead Mp’s Tal of the Cy for Netflix—Bartlett is unique; an out gay actor playg an assortment of varied, eply wrten gay men progrsg through middle age on mastream TV.