Ronen Rubste plays T.K. Strand the Fox seri, which is produced by Ryan Murphy. He stars along wh Rob Lowe and openly gay actor Rafael L. Silva.
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- 9-1-1: LONE STAR’S ‘TARLOS’: ARE T.K. & CARLOS’ PORTRAYERS GAY REAL LIFE?
- 9-1-1: LONE STAR ACTOR EXPLAS WHY GAY RELATNSHIP IS SO GROUNDBREAKG
9-1-1: LONE STAR’S ‘TARLOS’: ARE T.K. & CARLOS’ PORTRAYERS GAY REAL LIFE?
Playg a gay character on the show that was warmly received by fans helped him feel "safe and fortable to talk about and to fally embrace and be happy about ." * gay actors on 911 lone star *
But wasn’t until they were shootg the send season that Rubste began to ask Silva, who is openly gay: “Hey, how was for you to e out to your fay, to your iends? “When there’s so few rol that are for a gay character out there, let have an opportuny to play the rol that are about our liv today....
Actor Ronen Rubste om Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star jt me out as bisexual, sayg that playg a gay character on the Ryan Murphy show – and his girliend – helped him e out real life. Strand is gay and has a relatnship wh police officer Carlos Rey, played by out actor Rafael L.
The fans helped him overe the homophobia he experienced durg his upbrgg, he said.
9-1-1: LONE STAR ACTOR EXPLAS WHY GAY RELATNSHIP IS SO GROUNDBREAKG
Are TK and Carlos gay real life om 911 Lone Star? See Ronen Rubte and Rafael L. Silva's sexuali and if they're really queer. * gay actors on 911 lone star *
“The biggt thg for me is where I e om, ’s like people like me and people who have intified as bisexual or gay or as any part of the muny, you’re jt not weled. “It’s eher you faced sane amounts of profany, like the F-word was thrown around all the time or you would get your ass kicked if you were gay. And Carlos are gay real life.
And Carlos gay real life om 9-1-1: Lone Star? Silva, who plays Carlos, is openly gay.
He ntued, “The biggt thg for me is where I e om, ’s like people like me and people who have intified as bisexual or gay or as any part of the muny, you’re jt not weled. It’s eher you faced sane amounts of profany, like the F-word was thrown around all the time or you would get your ass kicked if you were gay. Silva, who was born and raised Brazil and moved to the Uned Stat when he was 13 years old, explaed that he had klgs he was gay when he was 4 years old but didn’t fully unrstand his sexualy until he was olr.
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” He told them he was playg Rob Lowe’s gay son on the Fox procral, but he wasn’t sure what they’d thk of the very steamy enunter between his character, T. Strand, and his future police officer boyiend Carlos Rey, played by openly gay actor Rafael L. "As a kid gog through all of this, beg closeted pletely and nowhere near acceptg the fact that I was gay, I was jt gog through all of this quietly thkg that I was actually beg the ial man, the ial Rafael.
"When Silva disvered he had been st 9-1-1: Lone Star, he quickly threw himself to preparg for his portrayal of Carlos Rey – a gay, Lato police officer om At, Texas. It's a Black trans male who happens to be a firefighter [played by Brian Michael Smh], 's also a young immigrant kid that is trag to be a firefighter [played by Julian Works] and 's a really wired-tight, gay man that also happens to be a police officer. "Then, layer upon layer, story upon story starts to get created, and that awarens allows me to see the magnu of what means to portray a gay man of lour who also happens to be a p.
As an actor that plays a policeman on a major show, Silva offers an extremely nuanced perspective, explag that he approach his portrayal of Carlos Rey not as a p but rather as "a [layered] person who happens to be a p, who happens to be Texan, who happens to be gay.