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.
People here will whine and moan then go and spend thousands on Disney junk and subscriptions the next day.
Exactly. They are recruiting and aggressive about it. I’ve already lost several young relatives. No way one of them is a lesbian. She LOVED the mens, until she went to college and got “re-educated.” Massive brainwashing. Liberalism has become a cult.
I definitely wish him the best in his treatment and that he’s not quite ready to leave us just yet.
I wish I could find it. There was a website that showed pictures of nice, normal kids before they went to college and then the freakshows they became after. There were masculine boys who ended up in makeup and dresses and feminine girls who had shaved heads and piercings.
Going to send my son to a conservative university. Hopefully, my school, Texas A&M is still such. Maybe Baylor.
Found it! You’ll probably have to zoom in to the picture to really make sense of it.
https://funnyjunk.com/channel/cringe-channel/What+cultural+marxism+does+to+people/hycnLul/
[[I’m liberal when it comes to people doing what they want as long as it doesn’t harm me or mine]]
You shouldn’t be- what they do DOES hurt others- they hurt doctors, nurses, other drug users, and they rack up massive costs that raise your insurance costs Billions of dollars go into aids treatments- and many gay people on average have over a 1000 partners in their lifetime- yeas you read that right- spreading diseases far and wide- which make their way into hetero world too- gay grandpa or grandma or whatever- gets herpes- kisses young children when they come to visit- spreads it to the kids- or the grandparents gets aids, goes to hospital, nurse takes their blood- accidental gets stuck by infected needle- or aids patient throws up or sneezes or whatever on docs, spreading diseases-
no- what gay people do doesn’t just involve them- they spread their filthy diseases far and wide- and put many many innocent people at risk
stopped watching that show long ago when they began having queers on the show
remember when the studios used to tell us that sex in the media didn’t influence the culture?
I usually watch the Monty Hall version, so I decided to check the new one out. Two shows, two homo couples. Back to Monty.
Superbarf
The only thing I hate more than Marvel are its global fanboys. All Marvel movies share the same hokey “humor” and those stupid clips that show up after the credits.
>>hey don’t want equality or freedom, they want to shove their behavior in people’s faces.
neither feminazis nor homofascists seek “equality”
they’ve been about supremacy for 50 years now.
“the future is female” isn’t an equality position. neither was saying that men are as useless as a bicycle is to a fish.
Homofascists are antiChristian, they mock people with faith and seek to rewrite biblical teachings.
Well Marvel has already done interracial anal sex on tv
...Jessica Jones is simply the richest, most engaging storytelling Marvel has managed outside of comic books, the first of its TV shows or films that plays like an introduction into a world of possibilities rather than the cross-media establishment of existing brand fundamentals....
...essica Jones is based on the Alias comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos from the early 2000s, the first true adults-only series Marvel had ever set within the same universe as Spider-Man, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four...
...The pace was more radical than the sex or the dirty talk, although at the time those were the news. In the first issue, Jessica tried anal sex in a series of panels that were about her pained face rather than the ins and outs of in-and-out. “I just want to feel something different,” she thinks, on the next page. Fandom freaked, a printer refused to print the issue, and even Marvel snickered, describing her lover, Luke Cage, this way in a later guide to its hundreds of characters: “A come-from-behind hero...”
On Netflix, the scene just plays as a too-soon hook-up. (Unlike in 2001, the coupling’s interracial aspect — Cage is black, Jessica white — seems entirely a non-issue.)...
Get woke, go broke.
So, as far as I'm concerned, the Marvel Cinematic Universe ended with Endgame. Appropriate name and at least they went out with a bang.
Never watched any of those movies. No interest. Why give $$ to people that hate you and everything you believe in ?
LOL!
Jesus wept.
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