Rob McElhenney, creator and star of It's Always Sunny Philalphia, spoke about the cisn to make his character Mac openly gay on the ntroversial s.
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- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
- MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
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Revealed as a gay man at the end of the prev season, Mac is still unable to fd his footg the world.
“I don’t know where I f as a gay man, and ’s startg to get to me, " Mac tells Danny DeVo's Frank. Not only do “Mac Fds His Pri” nta heartfelt dialogue — like Mac admtg to Frank, “I don’t know where I f as a gay man and ’s startg to get to me.
MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * always sunny gay dance *
In the fale, Frank (Danny DeVo) is tryg to nvce Mac to prance on the gang’s gay pri para float, but Mac isn’t feelg .
In his own way, Frank tri to help: “I never really got you and, to be hont, now that you’re gay I get you even ls.
")"I don't know where I f as a gay man and 's startg to get to me, " an earnt Mac tells Frank. This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty. * always sunny gay dance *
So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic. And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay.
"Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them. "The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly. "The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.
It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father * always sunny gay dance *
We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. Of the rpective idsyncrasi of The Always Sunny Philalphia gang — such as Charlie beg illerate and Dennis beg a sexual predator — one of the funnier nng gags throughout the seri has been Mac’s latent homosexualy. In Wednday night’s “The Gang Group Dat, ” at one pot Dennis refers to Mac as “the gay one” and at another pot when he turns to Mac and tells him that he riv his self worth om “nvcg himself that he’s tough and straight, ” Mac fir back “I am tough.
Of urse, what mak the joke work is that Mac himself is probably the only one that don’t know that Mac is gay. If he were jt a guy stgglg to bottle up his homosexualy, that would jt be prsg, and a different kd of show.
Mac Fds His Pri: Directed by Todd Biermann. Wh Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kal Olson. Frank tri to rec Mac for the gang's float for the Gay Pri Para; Frank to the realizatn that Mac will never be secure wh his sexual inty unls he out to his father." data-id="ma * always sunny gay dance *
But as a strict Catholic, Mac has reprsed his homosexualy so much that he don’t even unrstand his fatuatn wh badass tough guys is bee he wants to have sex wh them. FXX has renewed Always Sunny for two more seasons followg the 10th, which I n only assume will fally be the seri’ last, and I’m really hopg before ends we get an episo lled “Mac Realiz He’s Gay.
” Until then, I’ve put together this timele that outl Mac’s homosexualy as bubbl ever closer to the surface. At this pot the seri, they probably didn’t yet have any tentn to make Mac gay. Season Six — “Mac Fights Gay Marriage”.
Mac go on a csa agast gay marriage bee after pletg her transn to a woman, Carmen married a man named Nick. Mac sists that Nick is gay sce Carmen was born a man, seemg to miss the irony that he had sex wh Carmen before she pleted the operatn, clarg their marriage to be a “gay marriage. This is the episo, which the gang participat a day that revolv pletely around Mac, they fally and fively realize: “I know we’ve never said this as a group, but Mac’s gay.