[Luke Grimes True Blood]
oped: Good for him....enough is enough of Hollywood bullying actors to accept their perverted agenda!
By Price Peterson
Today in celebrity gossip: True Blood's
Luke Grimes was allegedly recast after refusing to play gay, Justin
Bieber's being sued again, and Channing Tatum is NOT divorcing Jenna
Dewan-Tatum.
At the time of last Sunday's season premiere of True Blood—its
last ever—the most controversial thing about the episode seemed to be
viewers' inability to decide if it was brilliant or horrible. For
whatever reason the mainstream turned on the show in a big way around
Season 4 and every subsequent year has inspired more and more vitriol.
But a long view of the series shows that it began as a
frequently laughable exercise in insanity and has never wavered from
that mission, so those claiming a drop-off in quality are very much
misremembering its origins. But exhaustion is exhaustion, no matter how
restrained, tense, and intimate this final season promises to be, so
fine. Anyway, you didn't come here for a critical essay about how one of
TV's top-rated shows devolved into an underdog story. No, you came here
because for the first time in a while the typically desperate-to-shock True Blood has managed to generate an honest-to-goodness controversy!
In a truly good piece of reporting, BuzzFeed's Louis Peitzman busted wide open the case of Luke Grimes,
the actor who joined Season 6 as James, Jessica's high-cheekboned,
brooding loner boyfriend in the vampire concentration camp. Tons of
eyebrows were raised last December when reports surfaced that Grimes had
left the production—his highest profile role to date—over "creative
differences." But now we know what those creative differences might've
actually been: The True Blood writers were refashioning James as a not only a love interest for Jessica, but also a love interest for Lafayette.
So, in a truly retrograde bit of homophobia, Grimes decided that
playing a gay (or, really, bisexual) role was unacceptable, whereas
playing a blood-sucking demon and occasional murderer was totally fine.
Also, before anybody claims that Grimes was right to walk away from a
role when he wasn't given fair warning about his character's sexuality
shift, remember that this is TRUE BLOOD, one of the gayest shows
of all time and one in which almost every vampire character becomes
bisexual over time. Both of the show's male heroes have had same sex
dalliances (Bill Compton in fantasy sequences, and Eric Northman in
actual sexual intercourse with a man he intended to murder). So yeah.
Gay stuff is never not in the cards on True Blood. Anyway,
Grimes' publicist informed Peitzman that Grimes' exit was almost
entirely due to scheduling issues, but of course his publicist would say
that. Meanwhile it's 2014 and career-panic homophobia continues to
thrive in Hollywood. Very cool! [BuzzFeed]
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