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JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'
Photograph: Peter Mounta/AP‘All my characters are gay’Depp reunted the well-documented story that he was almost fired om the set of the first Pirat of the Caribbean movie bee his outlandish performance as Jack Sparrow ially had Disney executiv worried. Is dnk, is gay?
“When they asked if was gay, I said: ‘Didn’t you know all my characters are gay? Gayle Harbor...
The fact of the matter is, both Hill and Tatum are way too old to be playg characters who are tryg to pass for llege stunts, and 22 Jump Street wants dienc to know that ’s on the when Schmidt and Jenko’s bond is tted as they beg to grow apart "llege" (Schmidt beiends the mp’s art crowd, while Jenko jos a aterny and starts playg on the football team), a rather juvenile, overplayed kd of humor rears s ugly head: “OMG, wouldn’t be so funny if the guys were, like, gay?? Hill and Tatum are sentially “playg gay” for lghs. They’re actg like gay men but they’re not actually gay men bee that would be prepostero and also disgtg!
'22 JUMP STREET'S BIG GAY PROBLEM
I don’t thk that 22 Jump Street as a whole is homophobic — I jt thk that the cisn to clu the aforementned scen was misguid.
” Clearly, the wrers were aware of the need to be sensive and clive on some level, even though they still end up largely missg the tim, 22 Jump Street is a really funny movie, but ’s 2014 and our summer box office blockbters are still g "gay" as a punch le. Walters is gay, as he has a man-csh on Jenko and beg Eric's prison wife.
I am one more black gay kid gettg punched the face away om a nervo breakdown.