Sndal star Jeff Perry opens up about portrayg a gay character on the show. Fd out what he had to say...
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- HOW A STRAIGHT GUY AND GAY GUY MAKE THE PERFECT UPLE
- COULD ‘SNDAL’ FEATURE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT?
- SNDAL STAR JEFF PERRY OPENS UP ABOUT PORTRAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW
HOW A STRAIGHT GUY AND GAY GUY MAKE THE PERFECT UPLE
Jeff Perry, who plays the seri’ Machiavellian Whe Hoe Chief of Staff, didn’t know his character was gay until the fourth episo.
Dan Butsky had already played a gay man the 2001 film, “All Over The Guy, ” which he wrote and produced. Perry is a straight married man wh a dghter, but playg a gay man. “I’m a gay dad and wrer real life, ” says Butsky “and I am a gay dad wrer on the show.
Confsns of a Gay Dad. “If were 10 years ago and the Whe Hoe Chief of Staff were gay, ” he says. “Twenty-five years ago I didn’t want anyone the world to know I was gay, and now I am balls-to-the-wall who I am real life.
COULD ‘SNDAL’ FEATURE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT?
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“You don’t need a big back story of why he’s gay – he jt is, ” Perry said. “And I was remd by someone, gosh, if that happens, he’d be our first gay print!
SNDAL STAR JEFF PERRY OPENS UP ABOUT PORTRAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW
"I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns. "I was takg my mom somewhere one day and she jt asked 'are you gay?
"I was so sred of what actually meant to ll yourself gay so even the first man I dated, I still thought that afterwards I was gog to eventually meet a girl and get married bee that's what men did, " he said. "But I was steadfast that like 'I'm gay and I probably shouldn't have been talg to someone that was 20 but I'm not gog to therapy, '" he said. Apparently Bex Banks was the last to fd out he was gay.
Though he was engaged gay sex, he didn't intify as gay. At age 21, his mom had enouugh and mand an explatn for the gay porn she was fdg on the puter and phone.