It's Always Sunny In Philalphia Didn't Always Plan To Make Mac Gay

Contents:

• '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

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.

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY

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. 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 Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season Sep. 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 BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”

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. ' 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.

‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA

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. 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.

‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’ CAST ON MAC’S GAY PRI DANCE SEQUENCE, “MASSIVE RPONSE” FROM LGBTQ VIEWERS – TCA

If he were jt a guy stgglg to bottle up his homosexualy, that would jt be prsg, and a different kd of show. 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.

MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH

” 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. Mac’s “Country Mac” shows up — and not only is he tougher and more of a badass every sgle way than Mac is, but he’s also openly gay.

THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’

While geics have never been scientifilly proven to have a role sexual orientatn, ’s always been a strongly held theory, so would make sense that Mac would have a gay .

(Actually two gay s, as Mac ns to another gay Paddy’s the seri premiere when they accintally turn to a gay bar.