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‘The Eternals’ Actor Says Crew Cried on Set While Filming MCU’s First Gay Kiss
IndieWire ^ | February 13, 2020 | Zack Sharf

Posted on 02/13/2020 7:21:21 PM PST by EdnaMode

Marvel Studios has made no secret that its upcoming fall tentpole “The Eternals” will feature its first openly gay superhero. In a new interview with Logo, “Eternals” actor Haaz Sleiman reveals his character is one half of the gay couple that appears in the movie. Sleiman says his character is “married to the gay superhero Phastos, played by ‘Atlanta’s’ Brian Tyree Henry, and we represent a gay family and have a child.” Marvel’s parent company Disney has promised significant gay moments in past tentpoles only for them to not be too explicit (who can forget the live-action “Beauty and the Beast” remake?), but Sleiman promises significant gay representation in “The Eternals.” The actor says the Chloe Zhao-directed superhero film will show Marvel’s first gay kiss.

“It’s a beautiful, very moving kiss,” Sleiman says. “Everyone cried on set. For me it’s very important to show how loving and beautiful a queer family can be. Brian Tyree Henry is such a tremendous actor and brought so much beauty into this part, and at one point I saw a child in his eyes, and I think it’s important for the world to be reminded that we in the queer community we’re all children at one point. We forget that because we’re always depicted as sexual or rebellious. We forget to connect on that human part.”

The last Marvel release, “Avengers: Endgame,” faced backlash after the Russo brothers announced the movie would feature the MCU’s first openly gay character. That character ended up being played by Joe Russo and appeared in less than one minute of the movie. Fans criticized the directors for touting representation in the MCU when in reality the character was nameless and insignificant to the film’s plot. A similar backlash met “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” for its extremely brief same-sex kiss near the end of the film, after J.J. Abrams had touted “LGBT representation” in the film. It appears such criticisms won’t be lobbied at “The Eternals” as Brian Tyree Henry’s openly gay character Pastos is one of the main roles. The cast also includes Gemma Chan, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, and Salma Hayek.

The MCU’s gay future might also include Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie. The character made her franchise debut in “Thor: Ragnarok,” and the actress revealed after the film opened that her character is bisexual. When asked this week by Variety if Valkyrie will be “explicitly queer” in the next “Thor” movie (“Thor: Love and Thunder”), writer-director Taika Waititi said he’s open to the idea.

“I think so,” Waititi responded. “The IP is not mine. But with the actors, I feel whatever makes them comfortable — whether they feel like there’s a natural choice, or a natural way for that character to go — then I’m pretty supportive. If Tessa wanted to do that, I’m in.”

Disney is releasing “The Eternals” in theaters nationwide November 6.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: corporateliberalism; disney; eternals; getwokegobroke; hollywood; homofascism; homosexualagenda; marvel; mcu; rapingmychildhood; theeternals
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To: EdnaMode

They’re gonna cry when their series doesn’t get renewed


21 posted on 02/13/2020 7:48:03 PM PST by Skywise
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To: griffin

And with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, in order that judgment will come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.…


22 posted on 02/13/2020 7:49:10 PM PST by Licensed-To-Carry (MAGA, and build that wall, and Epstein didn't kill himself and no one else did either.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

All 250 lbs of ma'am, ready to wreck a store if you don't address him by its preferred pronoun.

23 posted on 02/13/2020 7:49:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: EdnaMode

As Michael Savage once said, “GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY, GAY!!!”


24 posted on 02/13/2020 7:49:44 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: EdnaMode

Why do these degenerates figure that there is a huge heterosexual damand to see 2 faggots kiss? Buttigieg is disgusting enough!


25 posted on 02/13/2020 7:50:06 PM PST by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: Bommer

I blame the coastal city millennials. They live for this crap.


26 posted on 02/13/2020 7:51:10 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: Rastus

Isn’t stage four, of almost every disease, terminal?


27 posted on 02/13/2020 7:53:04 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: EdnaMode

Look! There in the bathhouse! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s ... Super Homo! Faster than a premature ejaculation. More powerful than the queer lobby. Able to leap on a bare crack in a single bound. Fighting a never-ending battle for deviancy, random sex, and the pervert’s way ...


28 posted on 02/13/2020 7:55:40 PM PST by IronJack
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To: EdnaMode

Pretty soon they’ll all be gay, with the token straight couple of course.


29 posted on 02/13/2020 8:00:16 PM PST by robel
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

I believe we are at that point. Maranatha Lord. Claim Your Church.


30 posted on 02/13/2020 8:01:16 PM PST by griffin
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To: robel

TV is almost already there. Started with removing white people. Now, it’s all mixed or something else. Obvious brainwashing.


31 posted on 02/13/2020 8:01:22 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: Jonty30

In light of Rush, I wish not, but it seems to have a high mortality rate.


32 posted on 02/13/2020 8:02:47 PM PST by Rastus
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To: EdnaMode

No money for pervwood.


33 posted on 02/13/2020 8:03:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

Abnormal IS NOT NORMAL


34 posted on 02/13/2020 8:04:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: StolarStorm

Let’s Make a Deal is having Valentine’s Week. When he said they were only having couples make deals, I knew. And sure enough, here came the diesel dykes.


35 posted on 02/13/2020 8:05:40 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Rastus
WTF? Whatever. The Eternals is scraping the bottom of the barrel as it is, but I’m not as big a Jack Kirby fan as most. The New Gods are pretty lame, too.

I agree with your first three statements, not so much the fourth. Still, considering that woman they have working on the New Gods movie, I hope it never makes it to film. (I have all 3 times 11 issues of T.N.G., M.M., and T.F.P.). I doubt that I'll go see The Eternals, although I'm sure I'll end up buying the disk when it comes out. Sadly, part of being a collector is buying stuff you really don't want (you buy Daredevil; you buy Electra, you buy Conan; you buy Red Sonja).

36 posted on 02/13/2020 8:12:19 PM PST by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: NurdlyPeon

And I think Tom King is working on New Gods. That can’t be good.


37 posted on 02/13/2020 8:14:57 PM PST by Rastus
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To: EdnaMode

And this is why we can’t have nice things.

A full corruption and forced deep perversion of a wholesome society.

For most of my long life I didn’t care what alternative lifestyles did as long as they kept it to themselves. Now they have to force it down our throats every chance they get.

It’s not their perverse lifestyle that bothers me; it’s their forcing it on everyone including small children. I hope these bastards burn in a the hottest “eternal” hell for this.


38 posted on 02/13/2020 8:21:21 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: madison10
The Gramscian long march through the institutions.
TWANLOC
39 posted on 02/13/2020 8:22:43 PM PST by IWontSubmit
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To: IronJack
Look! There in the bathhouse! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s ... Super Homo! Faster than a premature ejaculation. More powerful than the queer lobby. Able to leap on a bare crack in a single bound. Fighting a never-ending battle for deviancy, random sex, and the pervert’s way ...

LMAO!! Well done!

40 posted on 02/13/2020 8:23:20 PM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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