The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a
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- 'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
- HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
- A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
- THE CW’S NEWT SHOW CENTERS A GAY, BLACK BILLNAIRE INVENTOR
- TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR TENSE GAY SEX SCENE
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
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The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a new sci-fi mystery drama that expands the “Nancy Drew” universe on The by “Nancy Drew” shownners Noga Land and Melda Hsu Taylor and “Empire” wrer Cameron Johnson, “Tom Swift, ” which premier Tuday, follows the vilishly charmg ventor (played by Tian Richards) who is scribed as a young man “wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth” who many men would kill to be — or be wh. “I thk the spiratn for me om the fact that I’ve jt never seen a Black gay billnaire onscreen before, and I really wanted to see one.
HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
Assistant, Barclay (voiced by LeVar Burton), whose sights and tough love have been a nstant throughout his an executive producer who is both Black and openly gay, Johnson said he wanted to create a show that not only felt thentic to his own experienc but also felt universal. “And the same way, [wh] ‘Tom Swift, ’ you may not be gay nor Black nor a billnaire … but you might regnize the fay dynamics and the prsure that we experience om our parents and the bonds that we build wh people who we tst — jt agast the backdrop of a really thentilly Black world.
”The rponsibily of playg one of work televisn’s first Black gay lead characters isn’t lost on Richards, whose actg creds clu the films “Burn, ” “Dumpl’” and “A Bad Moms Christmas.
A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
“For Tom to be somebody who’s out, gay, Black, rich and has a darker sk tone — all the thgs that we never get to see look like this — that is so important for people to see, ” pecially STEM, he said. “And the versn of that is, everybody knows you’re gay, you’ve said you’re gay, but they jt ignore you and ntue to try to ph you a different directn. “What I particularly love about The CW is that, the wrg of , they never asked to dial back or make ls gay, ” Johnson said.
“That is gog to be really excg and betiful and h, bee I don’t know that we get to see a love story like this wh a Black gay man at the center of as the object of sire that much, pecially one set a world of sci-fi. The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV.
THE CW’S NEWT SHOW CENTERS A GAY, BLACK BILLNAIRE INVENTOR
Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth.
Growg up Black and gay, he didn't see characters like himself the lead role or the center of any stori, let alone one that shows someone like him as a billnaire or brilliant ventor or playboy, and he n't help but wonr how his life might have been different if he had. " That's how Richards end up alg wh all the add prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead — by focg on all of Tom's layers and makg him a three-dimensnal human rather than a symbol for an entire muny. Wh playg a gay character, you don't want them to be an archetype or fall to a trope, and I ma sure to stay mdful of that.
TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR TENSE GAY SEX SCENE
On the surface, he always knew he had a lot mon wh Tom as a gay Black man growg up today's world, but he had no ia jt how much the show was gog to change his life on an ternal level. As far as I’m aware, there are no shows about gay Black billnair that are currently on air. But that uld soon be changg, as The CW is reportedly velopg a new drama based on popular Stratemeyer Syndite character Tom urse, anyone faiar wh the character through his appearanc books like Tom Swift and His Giant Telpe (where the cunng, science-obssed ventor was often scribed as “Swift by name and swift by nature”) might not immediately image him as Black and gay.
Acrdg to Deadle, the upg drama, simply tled Tom Swift, will follow “the serialized adventur of s tular Black, gay, billnaire ventor who is thst to a world of sci-fi nspiracy and unexplaed phenomena after the shockg disappearance of his father. ” Which is to say, if you’ve been lookg for a slightly olr-skewg versn of A Seri of Unfortunate Events that also featur ccial sci-fi elements and a gay protagonist, you’re feature more "queer ntent. Cameron Johnson, a gay Black wrer behd some of Empire’s strongt episos, is also on board as -creator.
Together, the tr of Hsu Taylor, Land, and Johnson will wre and executive there is no word yet on when we n expect the upg seri, multiple reports nfirm that Tom Swift will make his first appearance on The CW the currently-filmg sophomore season of Nancy Drew, which will premiere 2021. The seri, which follows the young Black gay billnaire of the tle, jt premiered CW has nceled “Tom Swift” before all of the first season’s episos have “Nancy Drew” sp-off lnched on the work May and served as a major tone seri terms of reprentatn.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
Tian Richards took on the tular role of Swift, a Black gay billnaire ventor who after the myster disappearance of his father is, “thst to a world of sci-fi nspiracy and unexplaed phenomena. To be young, gifted, Black, and Gay!
The lead this adaptn is both Black and gay, which is a super rare occurrence for a lead character on televisn, pecially work TV. Tom tells her that his father never pletely accepted the fact that he was gay, and Isaac says the le “even trans guys have annoyg ex.