'Downton Abbey' actor says playg a gay character has left him "typest"

Contents:

• 'DOWNTON ABBEY' GAY KISS EDED OUT GREECE
• THE ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ MOVIE’S GAY STORYLE ALMOST HAD A DARKER ENDG
• THE ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ MOVIE GAY BAR SCENE IS ACTUALLY PRETTY HISTORILLY ACCURATE
• DOWNTON ABBEY GAY SCENE CENSORED?!
• ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ ACTOR SAYS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER HAS LEFT HIM “TYPEST”

'DOWNTON ABBEY' GAY KISS EDED OUT GREECE

Greek state televisn me unr fire om the untry's ma opposn party and crics for edg out a gay kiss on Monday's primetime premiere of popular Brish perd drama "Downton Abbey. "This is of urse an obv se of censorship, an extreme act of homophobia and discrimatn which unfortunately, after what has been happeng recently, we nnot characterize as unprecented.

"One SYRIZA lawmaker, Dimris Papadimoulis, qutned whether the omissn was due to prsure om the far-right Goln (GD) Dawn party or relig thori wh a tweet askg: "NET 'cut' a gay kiss on the premiere of a top TV seri. "Greece has seen an upsurge right-wg extremism sce a natnal electn June hered the ultra-natnalist Goln Dawn party to parliament for the first time s latt ntroversy days after dozens of monstrators, cludg Goln Dawn lawmakers, clashed wh police outsi an Athens theatre and forced the postponement of an Amerin play that picts J and his apostl as gay. Thomas Barrow, Downton Abbey‘s valet-turned-butler, whose dark journey durg the seri saw him take some wrenchg steps to try and “cure” himself of homosexualy, received a much more hopeful treatment the new feature film of the same name.

The film, which troduc Barrow to a world he has never seen before, a clanste unrground social scene where gay men n openly nnect, where he's led by Richard Ellis (Max Brown), part of the royal entourage that has e to vis Downton. Engler also spoke about the gay storyle wh Indiewire, about some of the choic that were ma when pictg the 1920s gay scene, particular the gay ‘speakeasy' that gets raid. Said Engler: “In pictg that world, that gatherg that he go to, we had to fd a way to tell that didn't feel anachronistic even though there's almost no rearch that one uld actually do about a place like that bee there was no gay bars York 1927.

THE ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ MOVIE’S GAY STORYLE ALMOST HAD A DARKER ENDG

There's people of lor gay bars, and there's guys who go to the gym and are mcle-y gay bars. In the new film, Thomas Barrow (Robert Jam-Collier) gets to vis a gay bar lled Turton's.

But once they're si, Thomas se that 's a secret bar filled wh gay men drkg, dancg, and generally havg a good time. A Vice article about the history of UK gay bars not that 18th century spac for gay men to meet that were known as "molly ho" are well-documented, but that siar meetg spac existed long before that.

THE ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ MOVIE GAY BAR SCENE IS ACTUALLY PRETTY HISTORILLY ACCURATE

Historian Peter Ackroyd told the Guardian 2017, "As a percentage of the populatn, there were as many gay bars 18th-century London as there are today. " In 1912, a bar lled The Cave of the Goln Calf, Bra's "first 'gay bar', as we know today", opened London, but was around for only two years. It wasn't until the Sexual Offens Act of 1967 that homosexual relatnships were crimalized, but that did not mean that there was full equaly Bra.

The word homophobia may e om Greece, but we didn’t realize the practice was alive and well there!

NET, the Greek state-n televisn channel cut out the gay kiss on the premiere of Downton Abbey! This is of urse an obv se of censorship, an extreme act of homophobia and discrimatn which unfortunately, after what has been happeng recently, we nnot characterise as unprecented. Also, didn’t you guys INVENT gay kissg?

DOWNTON ABBEY GAY SCENE CENSORED?!

Downton Abbey star Rob Jam-Collier has suggted that playg a gay character the show has hurt his reer. “I thk dienc the US n intify que easily wh the qutsential English gent and English lady, ” he said, “whereas a nrotic, dark, gay character like Thomas is a hard thg to put to the Amerin market. “Bee Thomas Barrow is gay and is, sentially, the bad guy for much of the show, a lot of people wh the dtry n only see you as that, ” the actor ntued.

‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ ACTOR SAYS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER HAS LEFT HIM “TYPEST”

Jam-Collier also revealed that he has turned down theatril rol “which happened to be gay characters” sce Downton Abbey fished bee he “really wanted to show somethg different”.