Rising trans star Andreja Pejic on playing a cis woman caught in ‘Spider’s Web’
At a time when Hollywood still routinely gives trans roles to cisgender actors while most trans actors are all but shut out of the industry entirely, in ‘Spider’s Web’ Peji? plays a cisgender woman.

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Mac Comes Out as Gay to His Father in Stunning ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Dance Sequence: WATCH

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia saw Rob McElhenney’s character Mac come out as gay in 2016 to his friends, but not his father, a set-up which prompted a stunning dance number in Wednesday night’s Season 13 finale.

Vulture sets it up: “In the finale, Frank (Danny DeVito) is trying to convince Mac to prance on the gang’s gay pride parade float, but Mac isn’t feeling it. In his own way, Frank tries to help: “I never really got you and, to be honest, now that you’re gay I get you even less. Nothing against it, I just don’t get it.” Nevertheless, he vows to help Mac find his pride, which involves coming out of the closet to his imprisoned father, Luther (Gregory Scott Cummins). But Mac can’t open up to his father, at least, not with words. Which is a good thing because if he did, it would sound something like what he threw at Frank when he tried to explain his internal struggle: “There’s like this storm inside of me and it’s been raging my whole life, and I’m down on my knees, and I’m looking for answers, and then God comes down to me and it’s a very hot chick and she pulls me up and we start dancing.” That sounds like typical Mac nonsense, but the surprise comes when Mac ultimately manifests his internal musings into a full dance number that he performs in prison for his father, Frank, and the other inmates.”

Mac has gone from heavy to “comically jacked” as AV Club notes, and now we know why: “In this week’s season finale, it was revealed that the reason Mac is in such good shape is that he’s been preparing an elaborate modern dance piece in order to express his emotional turmoil to his imprisoned father. Recently, Vulture got the inside story on this breathtaking surprise performance, which apparently took months of work and planning to make happen. First, in order to get into the shape necessary to pull this off, McElhenney worked with celebrity trainer Arin Babaian, who gained notoriety working with Channing Tatum on Magic Mike. Once he was in good enough shape to dance for two hours a day, he reached out to choreographers Alison Faulk and Leo Moctezuma, and together they crafted the emotional modern routine that McElhenney would ultimately perform alongside professional ballerina Kylie Shea.”

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Michael C. Hall Comes Out as Sexually Fluid: ‘I Would Say I Was Not All the Way Heterosexual’

Michael C. Hall gave a thoughtful interview to The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman on a wide variety of topics including his sexual orientation.

Said the actor, who played gay in Six Feet Under, and trans as Hedwig on Broadway: “I think there’s a spectrum. I am on it. I’m heterosexual. But if there was a percentage, I would say I was not all the way heterosexual. I think playing the emcee required me to fling a bunch of doors wide open because that character I imagined as pansexual…I think have always leaned into any fluidity in terms of my sexuality.”

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Hall, who is married for the third time to Morgan MacGregor, said that he’s never been intimate sexually with a man: “I think, maybe because of an absent father, there has definitely been a craving for an emotional intimacy with a man. I don’t mean to suggest that an emotional relationship between a father and son is any way homoerotic. I mean an emotional intimacy or connection that at least in the milieu I grew up in was considered fey. I had an appetite to have emotional connections with men beyond beer, sports, and fist pumping that were considered ‘gay.’”

Hall also talked about the debate over “straight” actors playing gay roles: “Its undeniable that the public finds it more palatable to see a straight actor do their own sexual or gender stunt work­—‘Oh look at him, pretending to want that man, it’s so convincing’—as opposed to looking at a gay or trans person being themselves. It’s acting no matter what. It’s a character.”

Hall said that when he played David Fisher in Six Feet Under he was aware of the irony that not many gay actors pursued that role because of fear that it would expose their sexual orientation.

He also criticized the addition of token gay characters to entertainment just for the sake of having a gay character: “Sometimes I feel like executives say, ‘Let’s put someone in this show who is incidentally gay so we can check a box,’ rather than telling the full stories of gay and trans people.”

Read the full interview HERE.

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