'Te Blood' Actor Le Grim Qu Over Gay Role
Contents:
- NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
- TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY
- 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)
- 'TE BLOOD' STAR NELSAN ELLIS ON LE GRIM QUTG SHOW BEE HE DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY GAY: 'I'M OVER HIM'
NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
Part of Te Blood’s appeal is that the st portrays their characters so well that ’s hard to believe they aren’t real. Enter Lafayette, played by Nelsan Ellis. Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egreg but at the same time isn’t stereotypil. * is lafayette from true blood really gay *
Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egreg but at the same time isn’t stereotypil. Here, he tells VIBE how he brought Lafayette to life, what the gay muny thks about the character and how he plans to transn beyond his Te Blood role.
So that stereotype you were playg mt have been a Queenie type of gay guy, huh? What’s been the feedback om the gay muny?
I don’t thk ’s a reflectn of the gay muny that’s jt Lafayette. But this is jt om what I hear, I haven’t really spoken to the gay muny outsi him [Lghs].
TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY
But then aga, I do play a gay character. I don’t answer that qutn, “Are you gay or not, ” when down to dtry people. The Hollywood Reporter, which was first to report Ellis’s ath, quoted her as sayg he had died om plitns of heart Illois-born actor played Lafayette, a gay short orr ok, on the HBO drama om 2008 to 2014, and more recently appeared the CBS tective seri Elementary.
"Yet over s seven seasons the seri also went the extra e by cludg many gay, lbian, and bisexual characters who were jt as diverse, dangero, and memorable as Bon Temps' other rints.
Lafayette is a flamboyant, charismatic gay man. Bee he is gay, people tend to unrtimate Lafayette, but he has taken down human men. Relled by many as talented and unrrated, Ellis beme a Te Blood fan-favore for his portrayal of the scene-stealg, gay short orr ok at Merlotte’s Bar the fictnal Louisiana town.
'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)
” Ellis’s character was ld for breakg stereotyp of gay men. You qu your job bee you don’t want to play a gay part? I did a documentary lled Damn Wonrful, about gay suici, and you make a statement, a big statement, when you go, “I don’t want to play this part bee ’s gay.
'TE BLOOD' STAR NELSAN ELLIS ON LE GRIM QUTG SHOW BEE HE DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY GAY: 'I'M OVER HIM'
” If you have a child, if you have a son, and he out as gay, what are you gog to do?
If you have a dghter who out gay …?
The actor pots out that this timate a male homosexual relatnship has been rare on Te Blood and that Lafayette’s scen wh Jús (Kev Alejandro) prev seasons were ls physil. Jam beme a vampire bee of tolerance to homosexualy the 1970s.