Zac Eon: "I Jt Can't See What's So Wrong About Beg Gay" - Us Weekly

Contents:

• ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE
• ON ZAC EON, HOMOEROTICISM AND GAY PANRG: HOW ‘NEIGHBORS’ IS THE GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER
• "I JT N’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY" - ZAC EON OPENS UP ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• ZAC EON: “I JT CAN’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY”
• IS ZAC EON GAY?
• ZAC EON IS NOT GAY THOUGH GOT SUPPORT OM LGBTQ+ COMMUNY FOR HIS ROL
• IS ZAC EON GAY? KNOW THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

ZAC EON GAY? FALLY, HE TELLS ALL TO THE ADVOTE

Zac Eon was turng gay heads way before director Lee Daniels stripped him to his skivvi for the pulpy, '60s-set southern thriller The Paperboy, which steams up theaters October 5.

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ON ZAC EON, HOMOEROTICISM AND GAY PANRG: HOW ‘NEIGHBORS’ IS THE GAYT STUD MOVIE OF THE SUMMER

After High School Mil and Hairspray, I've always felt embraced by the gay muny, and I feel credibly grateful and honored.

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"I JT N’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY" - ZAC EON OPENS UP ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

I might've been ls aware of back then, but whout qutn I had gay role your volvement last year's Footloose remake fell through, fans worried that you might be done wh mils for good. But that will always be my home base and where I feel the most ee, and 's somethg I will fely do aga, even 's jt for pleasure and personal Paperboy also marks McConghey's first gay role. Are you terted tacklg a gay character?

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ZAC EON: “I JT CAN’T SEE WHAT’S SO WRONG ABOUT BEG GAY”

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IS ZAC EON GAY?

Zac Eon has been addrsg gay mors wh class and style for years, so why has taken him so long to get around to talkg to The Advote? Zac Eon’s terview wh The Advote is a chance for the actor to addrs gay mors that date all the way back to his High School Mil days.

“After High School Mil and Hairspray, I’ve always felt embraced by the gay muny, and I feel credibly grateful and honored, ” Zac Eon said durg his first-ever gay prs s-down. Zac Eon, whose latt role is The Paperboy, oppose Nile Kidman, went on to share, “I don’t like to live fear about thgs like mors and backlash to beg wh — that’s the way I was raised — but I jt n’t see what’s so wrong about beg gay. Will we see the heartthrob embrace a gay role on the big screen?

When asked the qutn, the 24-year-old replied, “I’d never take a role jt for the sake of playg gay, but I’m always lookg for a role that’s challengg, different, and entails some risk, so there’s no doubt my md that one of those characters will be gay at some pot the future. Like many red-blood gay men, I got my myself to a movie theater this weekend and saw ‘Neighbors. It was more about how might jt be the gayt stud-produced edy ever ma.

ZAC EON IS NOT GAY THOUGH GOT SUPPORT OM LGBTQ+ COMMUNY FOR HIS ROL

Especially nsirg don’t even have a sgle (explicly) gay character. When Seth Rogen’s Mac se Zac Eon’s Teddy the film for the first time, he offers Rose Byrne’s Kelly one of the film’s bt l: “He looks like somethg a gay guy created a lab.

IS ZAC EON GAY? KNOW THE TTH ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

From s homoerotic at hoe moments to s fetishizatn of Eon (and -star Dave Fran, for that matter) to uniquely subversive tak on the standard gay panic jok found the long leage of homophobic films that ‘Neighbors’ was born out of, the film seems to be outright panrg to gay dienc. They also aggrsively sought out advertisg and verage gay male-oriented magaz and webs. And while that technilly remas the se (at least I thk so — I uldn’t fd anythg nfirmg otherwise about s director and wrers), I was pleasantly taken aback by the remarkable amount of blatant homoeroticism ‘Neighbors’ that, for once, didn’t e wh any unrlyg homophobia.

There’s Teddy and his iendship wh Frat hoe BFF Pete (Dave Fran, who has sentially ma a reer off homoerotic viral vios — and let’s not even get started on his olr brother).