The actor discs the show's new season—and why he hop to bee the gay black hero he never had.
Contents:
- 'UNREAL' STAR JEFEY BOWYER-CHAPMAN ON PLAYG A 'STRONG, OPENLY GAY CHARACTER'
- JEFEY BOWYER-CHAPMAN TALKS UNREAL, BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR AND MORE
- GAY SIMULATOR
'UNREAL' STAR JEFEY BOWYER-CHAPMAN ON PLAYG A 'STRONG, OPENLY GAY CHARACTER'
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The out gay man was actually as straight as n be, almost to an unsettlg gree. "She lled me up and said, 'We want to wre Jay after you, startg wh makg him an openly gay man, '" Bowyer-Chapman says. " As an out gay man himself, Bowyer-Chapman uldn't believe his luck.
"I set an tentn very early on my actg reer that I only wanted to play queer characters and thoughtfully wrten gay characters bee the early 2000s there weren’t many characters like that beg wrten, " he says.
I uld have ntued to listen to the fear-centered thoughts that the dtry feeds queer actors all the time that you have to play straight, you n't be openly gay out your personal life or on set bee then the dience is only gog to see you as one thg and you won't be sellable or sirable to middle Ameri or women. "Jay has 25 male nttants to play wh this season and as a gay producer… you n e your imagatn and gus where that uld possibly go, " he has always been the moral center of the seri, dog his bt to keep the other producers check when they go too far wh manipulatg the nttants.
JEFEY BOWYER-CHAPMAN TALKS UNREAL, BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR AND MORE
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Jefey Bowyer-Chapman ma a bold choice a ago: He would be both an actor and openly gay. “I had exampl om a very young age of gay actors or personali g out late 90s and early 2000s who faced a lot of backlash and didn’t have a lot of support and risked g their reers, " he told NBC spe of that, Bowyer-Chapman ma the cisn to proudly and openly be himself. ”Jefey Bowyer-Chapman speaks SAG-AFTRA Foundatn Conversatns Wh The Cast Of "UnREAL"at NYIT Audorium on Broadway on June 28, 2016 New York Kotsky / Getty ImagThat cisn has paid off, and Bowyer-Chapman now stars Lifetime's h drama, "UnREAL" - where his character happens to be openly gay.
“As an actor, was important to me to play gay characters, bee growg up was somethg I never really saw done on televisn and film, and I was qutng why there weren’t more people like me. ""I always knew this day would e – ’s always been my tentn- to play a strong, openly gay character on televisn and film. “When [the executive producer] lled me and told me they were rewrg the character of Jay to be an openly gay man, and reflect me sentially, that was a dream, " he said.
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It’s always been my tentn to play a strong, openly gay character on televisn and film. Bee Jay as a gay man would be an ally to a transgenr suor, " he explaed.
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Paste recently ught up wh Bower-Chapman to talk about the groundbreakg seri, why ’s important to be an openly gay actor Hollywood and his love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Paste Magaze: In the origal pilot Jay was kd of a womanizg d, but the seri creators changed him to an openly gay character bee of you. ” and I was Jefey, havg nversatns wh them about femism or gay rights.
Paste: You gave a speech last year at the HRC Gala Seattle and said you wanted to be the “gay face of normaly the land of Hollywood. Bowyer-Chapman: The way that gay people and people of lor are picted for the most part TV and film is so accurate and so damagg the long n. They put their view of them and their judgement of the characters on any gay person or person of lor that they see out the real world.
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Could some gay people relate to him? The damagg part of that is some straight people who have narrow views of this world tend to lump all gay people to that tegory. There are many, many different shas of gay.
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