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
* 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.
THE HANNIBAL FALE NEARLY END ON A GAY KISS, SAYS BRYAN FULLER
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. 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.
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