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• PRI STAR: I WAS SHOCKED BY GAY TABOO
• PRI: WATCH GEE MACKAY AN EXCLIVE CLIP OM THE DRAMA ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WHO JOED THE MERS' PROTT - VIO
• IS GEE MACKAY GAY?

PRI STAR: I WAS SHOCKED BY GAY TABOO

Are you gay? A pole young man Gee MacKay might be, but at jt 27 he’s had plenty of practice tryg on other personas: a closeted gay activist Pri, a sgg Sttish squaddie Sunshe On Leh and – most recently – Lance Corporal Will Schofield Sam Mens’ first world war smash, 1917. MacKay’s cross-drsg Ned Kelly, for stance, is charged wh sexual energy: there’s a homoerotic isson between him and Nicholas Hoult, who plays a young nstable terted Kelly’s sister; and his relatnship wh his onscreen mother (played by the director’s wife, Essie Davis) would make Frd blh.

Perhaps ’s not que accurate to ll their relatnship homoerotic—the bonds of iendship are jt a real as the bonds of romance, of urse. 63" Sundance premiere Q&A on January 28, 2016, Park Cy, Utah | Source: Getty ImagGee MacKay Once Said He Was Raised around Gay PeopleMacKay starred 2014's "Pri, " where he played a young man who jos the activist group Lbians and Gays Support the Mers.

PRI: WATCH GEE MACKAY AN EXCLIVE CLIP OM THE DRAMA ABOUT THE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WHO JOED THE MERS' PROTT - VIO

In the 2023 LGBTQ+ thriller "Femme, " he also plays a eply closeted gay man leadg fans to wonr about his sexualy.

IS GEE MACKAY GAY?

The actor has not spoken about his sexualy but has been lked to once nfsed he "had been brought up around lots of gay people, " as his mother worked ballet and theater. Risg star Gee MacKay says his latt role, as a young man the Eighti who hasn’t e out to his stra-laced fay, was tough to play — bee his own upbrgg meant he uldn’t image beg gay as 22-year-old plays Joe Pri, which tells the te story of Lbians and Gays Support the Mers, a group which raised money for a Welsh mg muny durg the 1984 film, which also stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Stnton and Domic Wt, follows the eventual iendship between LGSM and the people of Dulais Valley near Neath. MacKay, who also starred Sunshe On Leh and How I Live Now, said he was astonished to learn of the bigotry faced by the gay muny the Eighti.

“My mum worked ballet and theatre when she was younger and I had been brought up around lots of gay people so I had never had any issue and uldn’t image how hard was to be out. ”The actor, who was romantilly lked to his How I Live Now -star Saoirse Ronan, said he hoped the film would help anyone nervo about the reactn om fay and iends to e out as gay. Pri tells the te story of a group of gay rights activists who, through the "Ps and Perverts" mpaign, joed up wh mers to monstrate agast Thatcher.