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Zachary Quinto excited about careers he, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells are having
Zachary Quinto’s latest movie Hitman: Agent 47 hit theaters this weekend, the latest feature film in this openly gay actor’s busy career.
Quinto, 38, is also set to reprise his role of Spock in a third Star Trek movie and has the films Snowden and I Am Michael out this year.
Since coming out publicly in October 2011, Quinto has also had high-profile television (American Horror Story) and Broadway (The Glass Menagerie) roles. He is thrilled with the opportunities he and other out actors like Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells have continued to have in a business where being openly gay was once considered career suicide.
‘Matt Bomer is one of my favorite friends. I’ve known him for 15 years – longer. I know Andrew. These are friends of mine. The fact that so many of my friends who are openly gay have flourishing, thriving careers is really exciting,’ Quinto tells PrideSource.
‘That in and of itself is progress if you consider that 15 years ago, when I started acting professionally out of college, you couldn’t even count on both of your hands the number of openly gay actors in any form, television or film. It was a totally different issue 15 years ago, and that’s not a very long amount of time to have made such progress.’
Feature films have especially been a place where openly gay actors have been discouraged from being out with Quinto and Ian McKellen being among the few to be prominently involved in blockbuster franchises.
‘We can’t stop, and so I do invite any gay actor to be who they are and to stand up and fight for their capacity to play different roles and to do different things. The more people can do that and stand by it, the more we’ll see it continue as we already have.
‘The more that people from diverse backgrounds can stand up with integrity and integrate who they are in an authentic way to their creative process then everybody benefits and we all move forward together as a result. So I see myself as one of many, many people who have had their own journey that has defined them and contributed to the larger goals of advancement and equality, and that’s something that I’m proud of.’
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