Contents:
- ‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
- GAY CHARACTERS DON’T NEED TO HOOK UP JT BEE THEY’RE GAY, HANDSOME DEVIL POTS OUT
‘HANDSOME DEVIL’ IS THE KD OF MOVIE JOHN HUGH WOULD’VE MA IF HE WERE IRISH, GAY, AND VERY INTO RUGBY
It was to feature two teenage boys, whose sexualy would never explicly be revealed, and the backdrop would be a fee-payg gby-obssed Irish school wh a culture of unthkg homophobia. The 40-year-old actor, bt known for playg Moriarty the BBC drama seri Sherlock, me out as gay 2013. “That’s not bee I’m gay or straight.
”It’s certaly te that Stt is an actor of great range and talent: one mute starrg as a gay rights activist Pri, the next takg on the part of an MI6 spook the Bond film Spectre, or playg barrister Anthony Juli the David Hare-scripted Denial.
GAY CHARACTERS DON’T NEED TO HOOK UP JT BEE THEY’RE GAY, HANDSOME DEVIL POTS OUT
“Your homo- or heterosexualy is neher a virtue nor a flaw. ”Would he like to see an openly gay cultural figure such as Jam Bond or Doctor Who?
“Visibily and diversy is massively important but there’s no pot wrg a terrible gay- or female-led drama if ’s not thentic, ” he says. ”He has ltle time for the media tryg to lump together the experience of “gay” actors: “You don’t pare Sylvter Stallone and someone who is the Twilight movie bee they’re straight, ” he says.
Both he and Butler, who also wrote the script, felt was important to tackle the issue of homophobic bullyg regularly receiv “eply affectg” letters om teenagers stgglg wh their inty and he wants to be able to tell them that “g out is nothg to do wh sex.