Actor left home aged 16 to ‘be a happy, gay teenager’
Contents:
- LE EVANS EXPLAS WHY HE’S ‘NOT SURE’ THAT ONLY GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY LGBTQ+ ROL
- DO LE EVANS HAVE A WIFE? IS THE PEMBROKHIRE MURRS STAR GAY?
- LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’
- LE EVANS TALKS BEG OPENLY GAY HOLLYWOOD
- LE EVANS SEARCHED FOR GAY ROL BEFORE 'OUR SON' BUT 'HADN'T FOUND THE RIGHT STORY' (EXCLIVE)
LE EVANS EXPLAS WHY HE’S ‘NOT SURE’ THAT ONLY GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY LGBTQ+ ROL
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Also, what was strange was that when people did fd out that I was gay, there was a lot of articl and stuff wrten sayg that I was hidg , and I wasn’t. “I need to fd my inty, and I need to be pennt of my fay, fd my voice and be a happy, gay teenager.
”Evans add that this ma the speculatn he had purposely chosen to hi he was gay even more upsettg. “I jt wanted to get onle and I wanted to pick up the phone and say, ‘Do you realise I left home at 16 bee I was gay? The Bety and the Beast actor, 41, was named Attu's Man of the Year, wh the star reflectg on how far he's e sce beg bullied as a teen to beg an openly gay movie star.
Evans addrsed past accatns that he was hidg his sexualy om the spotlight, tellg the Brish gay liftyle magaze that simply wasn't the se.
DO LE EVANS HAVE A WIFE? IS THE PEMBROKHIRE MURRS STAR GAY?
Le Evans stars ITV's The Pembrokhire Murrs but fans have been left askg if the Welsh actor is married, has a wife or if he's gay. * is luke evans really gay *
"Also, what was strange was that when people did fd out that I was gay, there was a lot of articl and stuff wrten sayg that I was hidg , and I wasn’t. "I jt wanted to get onle and I wanted to pick up the phone and say, ‘Do you realize I left home at 16 bee I was gay?
He’s proof posive that the work of g out only begs wh a claratn of one’s sexualy, that beg open about inty is both rewardg and eply challengg Evans, an aspirg star an dtry not historilly hospable to gay people, has long been livg the aftermath of terviews, nducted very early his reer, which he scribed himself as a gay man, most notably this terview wh gay publitn The Advote. In that 2002 terview, Evans said he refed to rema the closet: “[E]verybody knew me as a gay man, and my life London I never tried to hi . He rpond to a Women’s Wear Daily terviewer askg him if he was settg a new precent as an openly gay actn star: “It’s good for people to look at me and thk this guy is dog his thg and enjoyg what he’s dog and succsful at and livg his life.
And while may not have been a full-throated claratn of gay pri, Evans’ tac acknowledgment of his unique stat — a way, he’s been out for years — signals that thgs may, slowly, be changg for Evans and for gay public figur. He may not be the gay actn hero we want, but he’s the one we have, and one we n only hope grows still more fortable.
LE EVANS ADDRS MOURS HE ULD BE FIRST GAY JAM BOND: ‘I DON’T THK MATTERS’
In Evans, gay people who’ve spent years tryg to grow fortable the world n see themselv. As of late, pecially as more queer actors have portrayed notable movie and TV characters, there’s a ntued nversatn wh the dtry regardg whether only gay actors should be playg gay rol.
LE EVANS TALKS BEG OPENLY GAY HOLLYWOOD
The latt star to share their thoughts on this Le Evans, an openly gay actor who has starred the live-actn Bety and the Beast and the Fast and Fur movi, among many other films and shows. Davi, who told the NY Tim 2021 about his negative thoughts on straight actors beg st to “act gay” for rol. When speakg to this ongog discsn regardg whether only gay actors should play LGBTQ+ rol, here what Evans got ndid about his own exprerienc the dtry:I’m not sure about that.
Gay people have fely missed out on gay rol, for sure.
But om my perspective: firstly, I wouldn’t have had a reer if gay people played gay rol and straight people played straight rol.
LE EVANS SEARCHED FOR GAY ROL BEFORE 'OUR SON' BUT 'HADN'T FOUND THE RIGHT STORY' (EXCLIVE)
I’d have played two rol out of the 36 projects I’ve worked on, or whatever [the number] Le Evans shared wh The Telegraph, if he had gone by the le for himself to only play gay characters bee he is a gay man, he would have been signifintly ls succsful. At some pot, Le Evans is expected to rume his role as Gaston a Bety and the Beast spoff (which seems to have stalled at the moment) alongsi Josh Gad after the live-actn movie attempted the first gay moment for a big screen Disney movie.