Michael Cimo and Gee Sear talk to Out about their epic return for season 2 of Hulu's beloved gay edy-drama!
Contents:
- ‘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
- ‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR
- LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY
- IS GEE SEAR GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
- IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
- HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS
- GAY GAY
‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS
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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.
”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.
WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE
Is Victor willg to sacrifice a part of his inty orr to fe a new one? A rep of ‘Gay Gay,’ episo 5 of season 2 of Love, Victor, streamg on Hulu. * gay actors on love victor *
’”Cimo has said multiple terviews that he has been warned agast takg gay rol for fear of typestg. 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... 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.
‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR
A spoff seri of the movie Love, Simon, the new Hulu show sts actor Michael Cimo as a young gay teen who looks to Simon (Nick Robson) for spiratn on g out, growg up, and livg life as a gay man. As far as gay love stori go, ’s touchg, but the show’s BIPOC perspective is burned by the origal whe character. * gay actors on love victor *
Sce the Love, Victor creators no longer had to wre and produce this send batch of episos for the fay-iendly ey and sensibili of a Disney+ dience, they really got to up the ante and explore sis to Victor post-g out that they weren't able to do prevly, and the show really benefted om this more thentic (and sometim msy) portrayal of young, morn queer got the chance to terview the seri' two leads, Michael Cimo (Victor) and Gee Sear (Benji), about returng to the Simonverse and talked about the show's reprentatn of queer people of lor, plex and realistic pictns of a gay teen uple, what 's like g out to relig parents, and so much more!
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LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY
Victor (Michael Cimo) starts his story by DMg Simon Spier (Nick Robson) about his experience realizg he was gay, and om there, Victor mak his own way at Creekwood high school.
He later realiz that he is gay, and starts fallg for Benji, who is out and proud at school.
IS GEE SEAR GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
He is gay, but he hasn’t e out to his parents yet, and he seeks Victor’s help and advice on dog that. Mia and Andrew have history, but before datg Mia, Andrew got together wh Lucy when Mia was gone the summer after Victor revealed that he is gay. Nick is also gay, and he and Victor attempt a sual relatnship.
Adrian is shield om Victor beg gay until Benji outs Victor untentnally an argument wh Victor’s mom.
IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
Armando around more quickly to Victor beg gay than Isa, and he even disvers the lol PFLAG chapter. When 20th Century Fox released “Love, Simon” 2018, was the first major stud blockbter to center around a gay teen character g out.
That’s why ’s both moralizg and unsurprisg to learn that the long-held belief that unknown actors shouldn’t play gay is still alive and well Hollywood; at least acrdg to promisg newer Michael Cimo, who plays a teenager disverg his queerns Hulu’s adorable romantic edy for young adults, “Love, Victor. It’s almost impossible to image anyone advisg Cimo agast takg such a substantial role a high-profile project, but Cimo said the fear around playg gay — whether the ncern behd is real or imaged — persists among actors. “I’ve heard for years: ‘You shouldn’t take a gay role for your first big role bee then people are gonna thk you’re gay, or they’re gonna thk you only play gay rol.
HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS
Gone are the days when tablished A-list actors chafed at playg gay, as was mon before Tom Hanks broke that barrier “Philalphia” (1993).
) While this new trend n be a sometim tratg way to take opportuni om out gay actors, for Cimo, was enuragg.
When addrsg the particular nuanc of homophobia the Latx muny, Cimo speaks om personal experience, havg wnsed firsthand his ’s g out stggl. “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 Homo Sapiens Agenda, is set the same world as the book and the film, but foc on the g out journey of teenager Victor (Michael Cimo) and his burgeong relatnship wh his boyiend Benji (Gee Sear).
GAY GAY
Havg jt told his relig parents that he’s gay at the end of the first season, season two picks up where thgs left off wh Victor navigatg their differg reactns to the news, as well of those of his younger sister Pilar (Isabella Ferreira), his ex-girliend Mia (Rachel Hilson), his high school basketball teammate Andrew (Mason Goodg), and his bt iend Felix (Anthony Turpel) and his girliend Lake (Bebe Wood).
Meanwhile, as the newly out Victor is learng to embrace his sexualy, he be ls reliant on turng to Simon for advice and fact as the season progrs he fds himself servg as a mentor figure to a fellow gay stunt, and Pilar’s new bff, Rahim (Anthony Keyvan). Photo by: Greg Gayne/Hulu. Some of my olr iends who are gay who watch the show ually say, ‘wow, I wish I had a show like that growg up.