The openly gay actor, who me out his early twenti, has spoken up about feelg like " orr to be happy I need to be straight"
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BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?
When asked about his experience as a gay actor, Jonathan revealed that a iend and fellow actor, who is also openly LGBTQIA+, was told durg pilot week; "There’s two thgs we don’t want to know: if you’re an alholic or if you’re gay.
It’s jt there had never been a need to talk about , " he the same terview, he also discsed the stigma which still fac LGBTQIA+ men the entertament world, sayg; "There’s a sense of shame, I thk, that’s palpable throughout gay men wh the dtry. Speakg to Attu, he relled that the procs volved; "[T]hkg about my experienc and those of my iends, how they are and how they see themselv gay culture, what we aspire to and where we want to be our relatnships.
It suggted that the send elst Bridgerton might actually be gay — or, at the very least, bisexual. And their anger seems well placed light of shownner Chris Van Den recently givg an terview and sayg that the character's storyle Season 1 was not meant to suggt he was gay and that was a "nsc choice" not to have his sexualy be fluid Season 2.