Christopher meloni gay
GREG IN HOLLYWOOD
Does his popularity among gays surprise him?
‘With the ass that I’m sporting? No,’ the actor tells The Advocate before bursting into laughter.
He’s joking but he’s probably not far off the mark!
Chris is a longtime linear ally to the LGBTI community.
He says he was particularly impressed by college football star Michael Sam who came out as same-sex attracted before the NFL draft.
‘My son plays football, and I remember when Michael Sam came out. I told him, “That’s a actual man. That’s a guy with courage.” Right before he’s about to seize the next step toward furthering his career, he said “I’m gay. Let’s move on.”‘
‘I contemplate that’s the caring of example, the type of conduct, that’s going to push us forward,’ Meloni says. ‘For more people to say, “I don’t want to haul this silly burden anymore, this silly secret, let’s transfer on. It’s not the focal gesture of who I am.”‘
‘That said,’ he adds, ‘I’m not gay and I don’t deal with it on a daily basis, but that’s how it strikes me and I think we’re already way far into it.’
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Actor Christopher Meloni
Character study
With his steely sky eyes, sculpted Italian features and brawny physique, let’s just say actor Christopher Meloni (Hist’83) doesn’t have much to worry about in the looks department.
No, it’s no surprise that People magazine named the long-time star of television’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit one of its Sexiest Men Alive in 2006. Whether he’s playing quarterbacks or psychopaths, cops or vampires, “hot” seems to be a common denominator — though there was this one time when his agent called…Aco
“He said, ‘I’ve got an offer for you. It’s four days of work and it will accept you four hours of prosthetic makeup.’ That really intrigued me,” Meloni says by phone from Hollywood. “Then he said the character’s name was Freakshow and I was like, ‘That’s absolutely perfect, I don’t even need to read the script.’”
And so a Hollywood sex symbol came to play one of the most hideous film characters in recent memory, the dermatologically challenged, frazzle-haired, backwoods denizen in two over-the-top Harold and Kumar comedies.
Of course, nobody could tell it was Meloni under all that latex, and Freakshow is just one small — disgusting —
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