'Love Simon' Star Nick Robson Talks Gay Romance - Variety

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• IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!
• ‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV
• 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• NICK ROBSON GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, BROTHER, HEIGHT, GAY
• 'LOVE, SIMON' STAR NICK ROBSON SAYS MOVIE HELPED HIM CONNECT WH GAY BROTHER
• WHILE ACTOR NICK ROBSON WAS FILMG GAY ROLE “LOVE, SIMON,” HIS BROTHER ME OUT REAL LIFE

IS NICK ROBSON GAY? 'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT!

Nick Robson stars the new movie Love, Simon about a high-school stunt’s g out journey and fans might be wonrg if the actor is gay or straight real life. Ellen asked Nick if he hated at all to play a gay character and he said that he went back and forth wh director Greg Berlanti about . Ever sce Nick Robson embodied a gay character the movie Love, Simon fans have qutned, "Is Nick Robson Gay?

Nick Robson played Simon Spier Love, Simon, a closeted gay stunt who strik up an email relatnship wh another stunt, but he don’t actually know the inty of the anonymo classmate he’s fallen for onle. The Homo Sapiens Agenda” by Becky Albertalli.

‘LOVE, SIMON’ STARS SAY GAY TEEN ROMANCE WILL SAVE LIV

Is Nick Robson gay? The Homo Sapiens Agenda, began productn.

'LOVE, SIMON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY

I thk that he had been alg wh this for a long time and the timg was cintal, but one of the bt thgs that me out of this movie was beg able to talk to him, ” Robson, who is straight, told Ellen DeGener recently on her talk film follows high schooler Simon Spier (Robson) as he stggl to tell his iends and fay that he’s gay. ”Pollari me out as gay an terview wh The Advote this week, revealg that he saw his own stggl reflected Simon’s journey the film. Namely, ’s the first mastream stud romantic edy told om the perspective of a gay teen.

“Moviegoers want to see their stori reprented onscreen, ” said Nick Robson, who plays the tle character, a well-liked teenager who is hidg the fact that he’s gay. Although we’ve had some fantastic films that have e out the last few years, like ‘Carol’ and ‘Call Me by Your Name, ’ this really is the first big stud makg a mastream film about a gay teenager.

NICK ROBSON GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, BROTHER, HEIGHT, GAY

Alexandra Shipp, who portrays another one of Simon’s classmat, said she believ the film n have a substantive impact on gay teenagers who are stgglg to e to terms wh their sexualy and are fearful of beg met wh hate and rejectn if they e out.

"Pollari, who has played a gay character once before TV seri Amerin Crime, said he stggled wh a sense of shame before g out. Other Twter ers poted out that Robson was wily known for playg a gay teen  Love, Simon, a heartfelt love story about a young man whose fay supports him when he out to them.

This younger brother of Nick’s, whose name was not known, was a closeted gay. When Nick’s movie Love, Simon me out, where he played a closeted gay teenager himself, this brother of Nick also me out as gay.

'LOVE, SIMON' STAR NICK ROBSON SAYS MOVIE HELPED HIM CONNECT WH GAY BROTHER

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In 2018, Nick played Love, Simon, a romantic g of age story about a closeted gay guy. Is Nick Robson Gay? Nick Robson might have played the role of a gay character his most memorable performance but real life he is straight.

The heartwarmg movie about a closeted gay teen who out high school stars Nick Robson, a 22-year-old actor wh a surprisg amount of tl already unr his belt. The heartwarmg movie about a closeted gay teen stgglg high school stars Nick Robson, a 22-year-old actor wh a surprisg amount of tl already unr his belt. The movie helped him nnect wh his gay brother after he me out.

WHILE ACTOR NICK ROBSON WAS FILMG GAY ROLE “LOVE, SIMON,” HIS BROTHER ME OUT REAL LIFE

In the movg edy-drama Love, Simon ( theaters March 16) Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel star as the parents of Simon, a high schooler played by Nick Robson who stggl to tell loved on that he’s gay. The Flash actor, 26, says that even though he went to a dance high school wh a large populatn of gay stunts, he was aaid to e out to his fellow classmat.

*This article ntas spoilers om the first season of Love, Victor*When Love, Simon first premiered theaters back 2018, fans fell love wh Nick Robson’s portrayal of Simon Spier as he attempts to fd an epic love while also g to terms wh beg an openly gay teenager.

And while the film’s tular star, Nick Robson, has been makg the prs circu, om everywhere like a gut stt on Ellen to a GQ profile, ’s one of his -stars who likely fds the story’s gay storyle a b more relatable. All I’d ever hear at the time was how Hollywood treated gay men or queer men, so I was, like, “Well, I’m not gog to shoot myself the foot before I’ve even started life here, ” you know?

This movie is groundbreakg as the first gay teen love story produced by a major stud.

Robson’s reer has been marked by playg likable characters plited circumstanc, om Love, Simon’s closeted gay high school stunt to A Teacher’s Eric Walker, a qutsential popular boy who engag a sexual relatnship wh his teacher and is left to reckon wh his rultg trma. His work has begged the qutns: Do homosexualy negate masculy? The movie follows Simon Spier (Robson), a closeted gay high schooler who falls love wh an anonymo classmate he’s been chattg to via e-mail.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, and directed by the current kg of teen TV Greg Berlanti (Riverdale might rg a bell), the film is notable not only bee there’s a lead gay character, but bee ’s the first gay teen romance ever to be released by a major movie stud. “One of the thgs that I thk Simon do is that he's extremely self-aware, basilly to a flt, to the pot where he is supprsg his own personaly out of fear of anyone fdg a ltle tick or clatn that might be perceived as gay, ” Robson explas. Still, his turn as Simon is what transforms this fairly standard teen romance to emotive and sential spoke to Robson about his own high school experience, what a straight actor’s place is when playg gay characters, and beg immortalized as a, jeans, and T-shirt by Gucci.

There is an argument certa circl that gay actors should be playg gay rol. I thk that now is a better time than ever to be not jt playg a gay part, but jt general to be playg parts that are outsi of your experience or fort zone.

I really jt had to tst Greg's visn for this thg based off of his experience and what he had to is a nuanced nversatn bee 's not necsarily a bad thg for straight intifyg actors to play gay rol.

Are gays and lbians generally accepted by North Amerin society? Lookg at the advanc civil rights, would seem that the liv of gays and lbians have much improved. But the fact is homophobia hasn’t disappeared, ’s merely stealth mo.

It is media reprentatns of gay men that the new “stealth homophobia” most clearly shows s face. Gay men are out and proud on some TV shows — the new rnatn of Queer Eye for stance.

But Queer Eye still offers effemate gay men who make lgh when they remend sk products or drs hair. This year’s Osr wner for bt movie, The Shape of Water, portrayed a sympathetic olr gay iend (played by Richard Jenks) who is gentle, effemate, and of urse, sad — an archetype that has domated Amerin cema sce Sal Meo’s Plato Rebel Whout a Cse.

Recently, I saw the gay rom- film, Love, Simon downtown Toronto. The theatre was filled wh llege-aged stunts who mostly seemed to sympathize wh the leadg character — a gay, closeted, high school stunt. ‘Love, Simon’ is nsired to be the first mastream teen romantic edy wh a gay lead character (played by Nick Robson, send om left).

That Love, Simon is beg hailed as a breakthrough gay film is credibly ironic. The Guardian recently reported that “mastream cema has begun to treat gay love stori like any other romance.