Samira Wiley Says She Was Accintally Outed As Gay by a Costar

Contents:

• ‘I’M BLACK, I’M GAY, I’M A WOMAN. MY UNTRY HAT ME!’: ACTOR SAMIRA WILEY ON LOVE, NFINCE AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE
• SAMIRA WILEY REVEALS SHE WAS ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY HER 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CASTMATE
• AN “ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK” STAR OUTED SAMIRA WILEY AS GAY
• 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' STAR SAMIRA WILEY SAYS SHE WAS TEARS AFTER BEG ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY A STAR
• ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S SAMIRA WILEY TALKS ABOUT BEG OPENLY GAY IN HOLLYWOOD
• THE HANDMAID'S TALE STAR SAMIRA WILEY SAYS SHE'S TURNED DOWN MULTIPLE ROL AFTER G OUT AS GAY BEE SHE FELT SHE WAS BEG UNFAIRLY 'TYPEST'

‘I’M BLACK, I’M GAY, I’M A WOMAN. MY UNTRY HAT ME!’: ACTOR SAMIRA WILEY ON LOVE, NFINCE AND THE HANDMAID’S TALE

I’m Black, I’m gay, I’m a woman.

SAMIRA WILEY REVEALS SHE WAS ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY HER 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CASTMATE

And the character was gay, which was all that I was foced on, ” she says. ”Wiley had e out to her parents, who were supportive, when she was 20 – they officiated her weddg – and she has done terviews wh gay prs, though plenty of LGBTQ+ actors choose not to.

AN “ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK” STAR OUTED SAMIRA WILEY AS GAY

“I fely did specifilly not talk about for a while, but people jt assumed I was gay.

'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' STAR SAMIRA WILEY SAYS SHE WAS TEARS AFTER BEG ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY A STAR

“ Bee Posey is gay?

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’S SAMIRA WILEY TALKS ABOUT BEG OPENLY GAY IN HOLLYWOOD

Photograph: Marc BrennerShe worried that if she took The Handmaid’s Tale part, havg played one gay character jt before , she might be typest. “My wife was like, if you do gay for anythg, you do gay for this.

THE HANDMAID'S TALE STAR SAMIRA WILEY SAYS SHE'S TURNED DOWN MULTIPLE ROL AFTER G OUT AS GAY BEE SHE FELT SHE WAS BEG UNFAIRLY 'TYPEST'

When I thk about now, ’s a ltle naive to say, I don’t want to play gay, bee that’s the heteronormative ia that we’re all the same.

For me, how powerful is , to have a Black gay woman portray an actual Black gay woman on TV? But Wiley, who married wrer Lren Morelli last year, wasn’t always fortable beg out as a gay woman offscreen.