The "Hannibal" team all wanted a gay kiss but knew was "too obv" to succsfully pull off.
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- HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM
- THE HANNIBAL FALE NEARLY END ON A GAY KISS, SAYS BRYAN FULLER
HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM
The "Hannibal" team all wanted a gay kiss but knew was "too obv" to succsfully pull off. * hannibal gay moments *
Fans of Bryan Fuller’s “Hannibal” have long shipped the serial killer wh crimal profiler Will Graham, maly bee of the expert homoerotic tensn created between actors Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. “It’s been a subject of homoerotic fan art. Bryan Fuller's Hannibal seri is nsired by some to be one of the most famo exampl of queerbag TV history, but almost gave the gay kiss we wanted and served.
"I was jt followg the lead of the actors, as opposed to havg a gay agenda. The gay agenda me later. It was super, any onle fanbase this day and age seems to tote around some form of gayns, explic or not.
Some of the biggt exampl of “gayns” talked about shows and film are never once ma explic and rely pletely on the fanbase to ci upon and discs what they see as subtext. If you’re onle long enough, that promise of proper gay reprentatn los ’s she pretty quickly.
THE HANNIBAL FALE NEARLY END ON A GAY KISS, SAYS BRYAN FULLER
I’m no exceptn; burned out om shows that were airg around the same time like Sherlock and Supernatural, and movi that promised gay characters who ultimately barely existed for a blk of screen time, I did not go to Hannibal wh a very high bar. As pictns of homosexualy have bee progrsively ls prohibed televisn and movi, portrayg timate emotnal relatnships that don't volve sex seems to have bee even more plited. Aled Hchck's 1951 film Strangers on a Tra featur a relatnship between two male characters that is parable to that between Will and Hannibal, and is wily regard as havg strong homoerotic subtext.
Yet Strangers on a Tra was ma an era where, thanks to the Hays Co, wasn't possible to have explicly gay characters Amerin films. That le clearly don't apply to Hannibal, the latt season of which saw Margot Verger and Alana Bloom get married and have a child together - so why did Fuller choose not to make Hannibal and Will's relatnship explicly homosexual? "But that do not necsarily prevent om a homoerotic subtext.
" When asked why he wanted to clu so much homoeroticism between two characters who don't and never will have a sexual relatnship, Fuller explaed that the fact that sex is not volved is what mak Will and Hannibal's teractns so tertg. There’s a scene at dner where we were tacklg the ed bay bee was so transparently homoerotic. In the real world, some straight men attempt to navigate the boundari of iendship wh other men by addg the veat "no homo" to exprsns of affectn, appreciatn of male bety, or any other statement that might be terpreted as havg gay nnotatns.