Broadway's 'Take Me Out' director Stt Ellis talks how he readied his st for Richard Greenberg's play about a gay Black baseball player.
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- JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
- JSE WILLIAMS MAK HIS BROADWAY DEBUT WH A GAY ROLE ‘TAKE ME OUT’
JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT
Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Jse Williams was to the ongog bate over straight actors playg gay characters as he embarks on dog jt that Broadway's 'Take Me Out' * take me out gay kandidaten *
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'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
Jse Williams and Patrick Adams star the new Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s Tony-wng play “Take Me Out," about a gay baseball player. * take me out gay kandidaten *
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But Jse Williams is well st as the gay baseball superstar Darren Lemmg.
"Dpe the monali, the media, cludg the New York Tim, has wonred whether Williams, a straight actor, should play a gay character.
JSE WILLIAMS MAK HIS BROADWAY DEBUT WH A GAY ROLE ‘TAKE ME OUT’
Bee straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award, " Billy Porter, who is a member of the LGBTQ muny, told The Hollywood Reporter Neil Patrick Harris, who married his hband David Burtka 2014, told The Tim 2021 that he "would fely want to hire the bt actor" for any role. "Take Me Out, " which opened April 4, centers Darren, a stellar profsnal baseball player, and what happens to him and his team — the fictnal Empir — after he out as script, viewed by Insir, lls Darren "a Black man who you uld image had never suffered" and Williams told Entertament Weekly that the character "don't nsir himself part of the gay muny" and has been "straight prentg" before he mak the somewhat impulsive cisn to share his sexual orientatn wh the world at a prs 's is a versn of a g-out story, there is no nyg that.
Unfortunately, tryg to do so, he grossly unrtimat the power of racism and homophobia.
We also see the shock Darren feels when 's clear the team manager Skip (Ken Marks) isn't gog to fight to keep Shane Mungt (Michael Oberholtzer) — the player who ed explic homophobic and racial slurs agast Darren — om beg restated on the team. Williams has a lot to prove his Broadway but as Darren, and part of the reason he's succsful bee of his platonic chemistry wh stage veteran and "Morn Fay" star Jse Tyler Fergon as Darren's bs manager Mason "Marz" role, more than Williams', benefs om beg played by an openly gay actor who knows the stggle that many young people face bee of their sexualy.