INTERVIEW: The star of ‘But I’m a Cheerlear’ and ‘The Faculty’ has llaborated wh die-pop duo Tegan and Sara on a movg teen drama lled ‘High School’. She talks to Adam Whe about adolcence, beg closeted the public eye, and what means to be a livg e-to-J moment for a generatn of baby gays
Contents:
- SPOTLIGHT | CLEA DUVALL – TOO GAY TO BE TE
- OPENLY GAY, IS CLEA DUVALL MARRIED? WHAT’S HER NET WORTH AS OF 2022?
- CLEA DUVALL ON BEG CLOSETED HOLLYWOOD: ‘I WAS VERY AAID OF PEOPLE FDG OUT I WAS GAY’
- CLEA DUVALL IS LASTLY ENJOYG ‘THE GAY THAT I FEEL LIKE I AM’
SPOTLIGHT | CLEA DUVALL – TOO GAY TO BE TE
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Clea DuVall is fally able to play a gay character that aligns wh her inty. "I've played a lot of gay characters, but I haven't really played a gay character that is gay a way that is the gay that I feel like I am, if that mak sense, " said DuVall, who is known for her lbian rol the 1999 cult h But I'm a Cheerlear, which skewers ex-gay therapy, and more recently HBO's Interventn, which will screen at the openg gala of the Outft Film Ftival next Thursday Los Angel, is also DuVall's directorial but.
OPENLY GAY, IS CLEA DUVALL MARRIED? WHAT’S HER NET WORTH AS OF 2022?
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The movie was But I’m a Cheerlear; the 1999 gay nversn mp rom was to turn DuVall to a livg e-to-J moment for Y2K’s baby lbians. Her reer has been a long, twisty one – lible supportg turns Argo and Zodiac; a n on Veep as Julia Louis-Dreyf’s licly stone-faced dghter--law; directg and -wrg Kristen Stewart’s big, gay Christmas rom Happit Season – but ’s those early parts that sparked a legacy of queer ol.
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CLEA DUVALL ON BEG CLOSETED HOLLYWOOD: ‘I WAS VERY AAID OF PEOPLE FDG OUT I WAS GAY’
” Back then, gay reprentatn was srce. “All my hero were people I wished were gay but weren’t.
“Ahh, Jte om Elasti… I was like, ‘So you’re not gay?
Are you suuuure you’re not gay? “I was very closeted and very aaid of people fdg out I was gay, ” she says of her early reer. A romantic, pastel-loured satire of nservative Ameri – and featurg RuPl as a lecturg ex-gay, no ls – st DuVall as Graham, the most rebell and sexually outspoken teenager at the “Te Directns” nversn mp.
CLEA DUVALL IS LASTLY ENJOYG ‘THE GAY THAT I FEEL LIKE I AM’
The film was, at that pot, the most overtly gay movie DuVall had been , and at first she didn’t realise that would put her sexualy unr a microspe.