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Reply With QuoteI really hope that hypocritical Hollyweird doesn't can his career for this.
Good for him!
Dr. Simon Tam (Sean Maher) from Firefly comes out
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'Playboy Club' and 'Firefly' Actor Sean Maher: I'm Gay
Sean Maher, an actor best known for his role as Dr. Simon Tam in Firefly, and now the recently-premiered NBC drama The Playboy Club, tells Entertainment Weekly that like his closeted character on the show, he's gay:
“I’ve never discussed it publicly...I’ve never been asked about it publicly, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t paint a different picture."
Maher said that when he moved to L.A. in '97 for a short-lived cop role, he was told by the Hollywood machine to stay in the closet:
"I’m 22, I move to L.A., and it’s such a cliché, but the day I arrive, publicists from the show took me out to The Ivy for lunch...They’re telling me, ‘You know, gosh, we’d really appreciate it if you could keep your girlfriend on the side because we want to appeal to the female demographic of the show.’ ...At that moment, I didn’t think to say, ‘Oh, I’m gay,’ because right before I left New York [where he went to college at NYU], I had my manager tell me: ‘You need to get a girl on your arm or people will start talking.’ I remember telling him: ‘I’m gay.’ He had no idea. And he said: ‘All the more reason to get a girl on your arm.’ My agent was also like, ‘It’s best if you keep your options open. Maybe bisexual?’”
Maher admits that the decision was ultimately his:
“It was so exhausting, and I was so miserable. I didn’t really have any life other than work and this façade I was putting on. So I kept my friends from college [where he was out] separate from my work friends, and that was very confusing. I just kept going on and on painting this picture of somebody I wasn’t. I didn’t have time for a personal relationship anyway. And you just don’t realize that it’s eating away at your soul.”
And Maher's role in The Playboy Club, as a closeted husband, is not coincidental:
Maher decided to use his role on NBC’s The Playboy Club — a character coincidentally also named Sean, a closeted man who’s married to lesbian Playboy Bunny Alice (Leah Renee Cudmore) – to finally engage in a dialogue about how being closeted has strained his life in Hollywood. “I was working on other stuff, and then this role came up, which was like a light bulb going off,” Maher remembers. “I was like, This is perfect. I want to do this, and I want to use it as a platform to come out.”
As viewers saw in the premiere episode on Sept. 19, his character is involved with launching the Chicago chapter of the Mattachine Society, an underground gay-rights group from the ’50s and ’60s.
If I get my hands on the clip (I saw it last night), I'll post it.
Good for him, but waaaahhhhh!!! Why are the gays getting all the good ones?
FUCK YOU AND GIVE ME MY GODDAMN VENTI TWO PUMP LIGHT WHIP MOCHA YOU COCKSUCKING WHORE BEFORE I PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I just get unpleasant in my car. - Deej
I really hope that hypocritical Hollyweird doesn't can his career for this.
Good for him!
This is good, more should follow.
I didn't start out to collect diamonds, but somehow they just kept piling up.-Mae West
well, duh. Like that wasn't obvious.
I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.
Hopefully this'll inspire a new wave of Mal/Simon slash fanfic
Ugh - I bloody love Sean Maher and want him to be succcessful, but the Playboy Club? LeMann best keep her publicity seeking claws off Simon Tam, or I might blow a fuse.
Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers, If you do find one... what’s your plan? - twitter.com/verygrumpycat
Shut up. Give him back!Originally Posted by Grimmlok
FUCK YOU AND GIVE ME MY GODDAMN VENTI TWO PUMP LIGHT WHIP MOCHA YOU COCKSUCKING WHORE BEFORE I PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I just get unpleasant in my car. - Deej
Firefly was such a good show.
Sean Maher always reminded me of an American Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, only without the drunken crazy. I bet he ages a whole lot better, too.
Don't care if Maher is gay or straight, Simon still had the best chemistry with River on that show, lol.Hopefully this'll inspire a new wave of Mal/Simon slash fanfic
"I threw up on your bed"
"...Yep, definately my sister"
Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers, If you do find one... what’s your plan? - twitter.com/verygrumpycat
Ahh Sean is so cute, I'd forgotten about his cuteness.
I smile because I have no idea what's going on
yup
not exactly shocking
My fellow 1982 Scorpion! Never occurred to me that penises go into ears until your twitpics@NickoMoralesXXX
@Sexy_Seth_1982 awe sexy! You're just too cute to be true- I can't take my eyes off of you-
Maybe Eddie will cheat with him?
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran
I went fromMaybe Eddie will cheat with him?to
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Yes I want WeWe to pink wig. But Simon Tan dirtied with slimeball Eddie-ooze? I'll so NOT be in my bunk!
Dear paranoid people who check behind their shower curtains for murderers, If you do find one... what’s your plan? - twitter.com/verygrumpycat
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