'Love, Victor' Star Michael Cimo Reveals He Got Death Threats for Playg Gay Character | Entertament Tonight

Contents:

• IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS
• WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE
• MICHAEL CIMO SAYS HE CONSULTED HIS GAY CO ABOUT LOVE, VICTOR ROLE: 'IT WAS VERY SPECIAL'
• 'LOVE, VICTOR' STAR MICHAEL CIMO REVEALS HE GOT DEATH THREATS FOR PLAYG GAY CHARACTER
• MICHAEL CIMO [ACTOR] WIKI, GAY, GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, AGE
• MICHAEL CIMO ACTOR, B, WIKI, AGE, HEIGHT, GAY, LOVE VICTOR, MOVI, AND NET WORTH

IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?

He beme one wh the character and played his part so perfectly that fans soon started wonrg if Michael is gay real life. Michael Cimo do not intify as a gay person.

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS

However, Michael has repeatedly mentned how exced he was to portray a gay person the show and how much work he put to thentite his performance. In an terview wh People, Michael revealed that his gay played a signifint role gettg him ready for the show. That was a really big drivg force for me, as well as I have a lot of iends that are gay.

WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE

On the flip si, Michael found himself an ongog bate that argued whether the portrayal of gay characters should be rtricted to real-life gay actors.

MICHAEL CIMO SAYS HE CONSULTED HIS GAY CO ABOUT LOVE, VICTOR ROLE: 'IT WAS VERY SPECIAL'

Michael even mentned that numero people advised him agast playg a gay character for his first major role.

Michael wanted to eradite the stereotype and stigma agast gay rol and th took up the challenge to portray Victor.

Michael Cimo, the straight star of Hulu’s gay-themed g-of-age seri “Love, Victor, ” says he has been attacked by some the LGBTQ muny and even some of his own fay members. In a new terview wh Attu, Cimo — who plays the tular Victor — says: “I got some homophobic ments — I kd of expected that to happen.

'LOVE, VICTOR' STAR MICHAEL CIMO REVEALS HE GOT DEATH THREATS FOR PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

”He add, “Some of them reached out, sayg, ‘You ed to be so ol; now you’re so gay. “It’s weird … [the Latx muny] is liberal when to thgs about Latos, but when to gay rights, ’s like, eh, qutn mark, ” Cimo said the terview.

”In the Attu terview, Cimo said, “There’s nothg wrong wh beg gay. ’”Cimo has said multiple terviews that he has been warned agast takg gay rol for fear of typestg.

MICHAEL CIMO [ACTOR] WIKI, GAY, GIRLIEND, NET WORTH, AGE

Meanwhile, the young actor has also faced fierce blowback for takg a role that an out gay actor might have played. “But there are some straight actors who play gay characters, who are all about supportg LGBT rights while they’re promotg their project, but once they’re done, a year later, ’s kd of fotten. ”Straight actors playg gay rol has been the subject of bate for some time, often hgg on Hollywood’s history of forcg gay actors to the closet real life and offerg only limed chanc to explore the humany of gay characters on-screen.

Grant, who received an Osr nomatn for playg a gay character “Can You Ever Five Me?, ” said: “I’ve always had that ncern...

MICHAEL CIMO ACTOR, B, WIKI, AGE, HEIGHT, GAY, LOVE VICTOR, MOVI, AND NET WORTH

The transgenr movement and the #MeToo movement means, how n you jtify heterosexual actors playg gay characters? Criss, who has famoly played queer characters cludg Andrew Cunanan “The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story” and Hedwig “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” onstage, said he wouldn’t take gay rol anymore, bee “I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy takg a gay man’s role.