Armond is a gay character om The Whe Lot. Armond is the hotel manager of the Whe Lot. He is skilled at puttg on a face and alg wh guts, but much like all the other staff, secretly tts his job but is trapped his suatn. Armond has a history of substance abe. He...
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- MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
- ‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
- FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
- WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
MIKE WHE AND ‘THE WHE LOT’ STARS BREAK DOWN THAT JAW-DROPPG TWIST: I WANT TO ‘MAKE GAY SEX TRANSGRSIVE AGA’
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Both feature a character walkg on gay sex behd closed doors, and both occur two episos before the fale. “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgrsive aga, ” Whe said.
‘WHE LOT’ STAR ON THAT POOP, GAY ROL, AND BEG OUT HOLLYWOOD
” (Mar Perez/HBO) “I didn’t want him to be a mpy riture of a gay man, ” says Bartlett — who’s been out his entire reer — by phone om Los Angel when asked about his Armond approach. Edor's note: this post ntas spoilers for episo five of The Whe Lot season 's givg a weeks-long tease, we fally got a gay sex scene on season two of The Whe Lot. In a classic Whe Lot twist, though, a gay sex scene me om somewhere else entirely.
Introduced episo three, wealthy gay man Quent (Tom Hollanr) is at the Whe Lot hotel Sicily wh a group of gay iends. Though most of them are rich olr gays, there are a few younger men their pany, cludg Jack (Leo Woodall), a charmg and sexy guy om Essex who refers to Quent as his "uncle. Quent's personaly, accent, and tast f the archetypil "proper wealthy Brish gay man, " whereas Jack looks and sounds like a future st member of Love Island.
Sendly, if a rich gay man like Quent were to hire a few younger guys to "enterta" him and his group of iends durg a trip to Sicily, stands to reason that someone like Jack would lie to Portia about Quent beg his uncle, not his "employer. Do all whe Lot hotels have a gay manager? Bartlett, whose break Ameri me via a Sex and the Cy episo, playg a handsome gay shoe importer who dazzl Carrie the episo “All That Glters, ” has had other major rol HBO drama Lookg and the most recent screen eratn of Tal of the Cy.
FROM THE 'EVIL QUEEN' TO THE 'SAD LBIAN,' 'WHE LOT' ED MANY GAY TROP. WHY DIDN'T RAISE ANY RED FLAGS FOR SOME FANS?
”Armond’s sexualy is not the reason for his ath, so if he is no more, is not a homophobic murr.
I hear what you’re sayg about gay characters historilly gettg a raw al, but for me Armond beg gay has nothg to do wh him dyg.
It didn’t feel like was any kid of rogatory diss on queer people or a gay man.
WHAT HAPPENS TO QUN IN THE WHE LOT? IS HE GAY?
”“I do thk there are still lgerg stigmas, and some ceilgs to break through”In his standout rol—as Armond The Whe Lot, as Dom Lookg, and as Michael Tolliver the most recent screen eratn of Armistead Mp’s Tal of the Cy for Netflix—Bartlett is unique; an out gay actor playg an assortment of varied, eply wrten gay men progrsg through middle age on mastream TV. As an actor you want to play a range of rol, and I’ve had the opportuny to play gay and straight rol, but I often get to play gay rol which I absolutely love bee we are a time where we are still tryg to have more reprentatn unr-reprented muni, cludg the queer muny. ”Bartlett don’t know if he was offered the rol on the strength of his prev gay rol—which n be sometim how producers and stg directors n see you.
“I don’t know if people thk, ‘He n only play gay rol, ’ or is that the only way they have seen me and so thk, ‘He’s right for this’?
“I was super-fortunate as a young person who had an credible mother who loved me no matter what, and didn’t have any issue wh me beg gay. Fortunately, that worked out really well for me bee the opportuni I got have been wonrful, but may have guid my trajectory that I have played more gay rol than I would have if I hadn’t been open.