‘It’s Always Sunny Philalphia’ creator Rob McElhenney may thk he’s exposg hypocrisy by makg the ultranservative Mac gay, but he’s perpetuatg a trope that absolv the straight muny of rponsibily for homophobia, says Louis Stapl
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- 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
- IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR ROB MCELHENNEY BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”
- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
- ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
- MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
- THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
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. * gay character it's always sunny *
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. 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.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season 14. * gay character it's always sunny *
"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. 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.
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR ROB MCELHENNEY BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * gay character it's always sunny *
'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season Sep.
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
Ronald "Mac" McDonald is a gay character om FX's It's Always Sunny Philalphia. Mac hails om a workg class Irish-Catholic fay South Philalphia. He is Dennis Reynolds' roommate of many years, and has been bt iends wh Charlie Kelly sce childhood. Mac is a member of The... * gay character it's always sunny *
In Season 11, the wrers ially had Rob’s character e out as gay to his iends, but he eventually cid to "go back the closet. " So, what prompted Rob (who also -created the show) to make Mac It’s Always Sunny gay? It’s Always Sunny star Rob McElhenney talks about makg Mac an terview wh Rollg Stone, Rob talked about why he cid to make his super nservative character gay.
‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA
It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty. * gay character it's always sunny *
' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic, ” he elaborated. Why the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ wrers cid to make Mac gay. McElhenney says the cisn to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character’s ultra-nservative beliefs.
’ And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. And that’s when I thought, ‘Let’s jt make him gay. Though may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the velopment me to them later.
But somethg that ught their attentn was the reactn they received when Mac me out as gay. “There was an episo where we had a nng gag that Mac was the closet and refed to e out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him. The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.
MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
It's Always Sunny Philalphia -creator and star Rob McElhenney talked about the show's treatment of his character's gay inty. * gay character it's always sunny *
The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. “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 f*cked-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.
THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
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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.