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.
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- 20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
- ‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE
- MEET THE 16 OUT GAY AND BI FOOTBALL PLAYERS THE NFL’S 103-YEAR HISTORY
- 12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
- HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
20 STRAIGHT CHARACTERS WE DIDN'T KNOW WERE OPENLY GAY IN REAL LIFE
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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. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
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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.
"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.
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"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.
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. Why the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ wrers cid to make Mac gay. McElhenney says the cisn to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character’s ultra-nservative beliefs.
’ And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
12-YEAR-OLD'S IENDS DIDN'T CELEBRATE AFTER HE ME OUT AS GAY. SO A PARK FULL OF STRANGERS DID
And that’s when I thought, ‘Let’s jt make him gay. Though may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the velopment me to them later. But somethg that ught their attentn was the reactn they received when Mac me out as gay.
“There was an episo where we had a nng gag that Mac was the closet and refed to e out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him. 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.
HOW ACCURATE IS ‘MRS. AMERI’S’ PORTRAYAL OF PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY’S GAY SON? WE REARCHED
“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 f*cked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. In the past, celebri who were gay would tend to keep to themselv, not wantg their personal life aired out for the public to have an opn on.