Olly Alexanr: Gay show Queer as Folk shaped me, says It's A S star

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Olly Alexanr creded gay drama Queer as Folk wh shapg him as a teenager as he gears up for the premiere of It's A S.

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Oktar Yalk for The New York TimLike the character he plays “It’s a S, ” the actor and sger stggled wh beg gay. 20, 2021LONDON — When Olly Alexanr burst to tears shootg a scene of “It’s a S, ” no one was very the show, which me to HBO Max on Thursday and follows a group of iends embracg the gay culture of ’80s London unr the shadow of AIDS, was emotnal for many of the st and crew — and Alexanr is as fortable showg his vulnerabili as the character he plays, Rchie, is at flectg them. ” Peter Hoar, the director of “It’s a S, ” psed scene qutn, which after Rchie and his iends are arrted prottg the Brish ernment’s actn on AIDS, is one of many the show that explore how the epimic vastated gay men’s we meet Rchie, he is an impishly nfint but naïve 18-year-old who has jt moved to London, wh dreams of beg an actor.

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When he was 14, his parents separated; he’d only seen his father a handful of tim sce, he was an even more ght environment, and Alexanr experienced homophobic bullyg om age 9.

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”The speech ught the tert of TV producers, and, 2017, he onted a BBC documentary lled “Olly Alexanr: Growg Up Gay. “I ed to be so, so driven, ” he said, but now he was puttg ls prsure on was happy, he add, to thk back on what he’d already achieved, and how much has changed sce he was a ltle boy who wished he wasn’t gay. "When the magaze asked Alexanr what he's dog next, he rpond: "There's a lot of good stuff that gets ma, but good stuff that gets ma wh gay characters that I uld possibly play?

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The sger gave his percentage reference to actor Sacha Baron Cohen sayg he was ’23 per cent gay’ a recent terview.

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I’ve got a lot of gay iends I get on wh really well. In an terview wh ES magaze, Years & Years sger Olly Alexanr discsed the need for gay role mols, his mic, and his csh.

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After releasg the mic vio for "Dire" which celebrat fluid sexualy, Alexanr also opened up about beg gay the mic his gay-themed lyrics:"My lyrics are about same-sex relatnships, bee that's who I am. But Sam Smh already proved an important pot to the very risk-averse mic dtry, which is that you n be an openly gay male artist and sell rerds. “I started to hear people referrg to me as ‘that gay sger’ and a part of ‘that gay band, ’ and I said to myself ‘You know what?

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