Outlanr's John Bell rells 'wantg to pray the gay away'

Contents:

• ‘OUTLANR’ STAR SAM HGHAN ADDRS RUMORS THAT HE IS GAY IN MSAGE WHERE HE CONFSED THAT HE GOT BULLIED FOR MANY YEARS
• OUTLANR’S JOHN BELL ON GROWG UP QUEER FILM: ‘I HAD MOMENTS OF WANTG TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
• ‘OUTLANR’S’ LORD JOHN GREY, A GREAT GAY CHARACTER, NEEDS A SPOFF

‘OUTLANR’ STAR SAM HGHAN ADDRS RUMORS THAT HE IS GAY IN MSAGE WHERE HE CONFSED THAT HE GOT BULLIED FOR MANY YEARS

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Outlanr star John Bell is about to play a gay character for the first time – and he n’t wa. He is jt 24 years old and he already has a legn of fans across the world – but somehow, he’s never had the chance to play a gay character.

OUTLANR’S JOHN BELL ON GROWG UP QUEER FILM: ‘I HAD MOMENTS OF WANTG TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

“It was an opportuny to play somebody gay, and I’d never done that before my reer, even though I am gay.

When John spoke to PkNews, he was still rehearsals for The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me – but he was already startg to notice how different felt to play a gay character pared to a straight character.

“It’s funny, I thk ’s actually more exposg playg gay characters, ” John says. I love my character Outlanr, don’t get me wrong, but dog this play, this is a young gay man a very sry time history on his journey of self-disvery gog through experienc both highly posive and credibly negative.

‘OUTLANR’S’ LORD JOHN GREY, A GREAT GAY CHARACTER, NEEDS A SPOFF

There isn’t “as much to hi behd” when you’re a gay man playg a gay character, John says – and he’s found that experience exhilaratg. “There’s a new generatn of gay people that are adults now, and they’ve never experienced the AIDS crisis and HIV the way was back then. It wasn’t que AIDS that killed people, was homophobia.

’ My mum isn’t gay, she wouldn’t have been the muny as such, but what I took om what she was sayg is that wasn’t que AIDS that killed people, was homophobia. John Bell thks ‘mak sense’ to st gay actors as gay characters.

John is a gay man who’s about to take on one of the most veted one-man queer plays of the last 30 years – so seems ftg to ask what his thoughts are on straight actors playg gay characters.