Contents:
- AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
- TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
- RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
AFTER “LIFE”: AFTER BEG FIRED OM “ONE LIFE TO LIVE” OVER A GAY DIALOGUE DISPUTE, PATRICIA MCERI FDS A NEW PATH
In March of 2009, Patricia Mceri was fired om One Life to Live over a dispute wh the producers over a scene which her character — a rosary-prayg Catholic — would give full-throated endorsement to the gay liftyle.
(Note: an earlier post of this paragraph ed the term “gay marriage” stead of “gay liftyle” but when I went back and read the terview I realized the word marriage wasn’t actually ed. Then they troduced a gay storyle 2009.
TUC WATKS, ONE LIFE TO LIVE STAR, COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS HE’S A SGLE DAD TO TWS
PM: Yeah, and wasn’t so much that they troduced a gay storyle. I gus they wanted to promote a…gay storyle and they cid to e my character a way that was a total 180 gree parture om what her strength and inty was. I got the script of out of the blue that said I was gog to make a joke — My character didn’t know was a joke at the time — (and) say “Oh, I see this book you have (about) how to tell your parents you’re gay.
Now, you’re gay.
RYAN PHILLIPPE SAYS PARENTS 'SHUNNED' HIM OVER GAY 'ONE LIFE TO LIVE' ROLE
” And she’s tryg to nvce him that he is gay and she lov him and that God created him that way. ” But to…try to nvce him that he was gay and that God created him that way. And then, further on the script, they had another scene where his (female) roommate — who knew that wasn’t his book, who knew that they bought for a iend of theirs and she was playg this game…to try to force his mom to prsure him to sayg that he was gay.