Jim Parsons says he has “awakened” in recent years about how much he loves “putting myself to work” portraying LGTBQ+ characters.
Parsons, 49, said “the majority” of the roles he’s been offered are for gay characters during an interview with Variety for the publications’ Just for Variety podcast on Wednesday.
“I wouldn’t necessarily call it a lot of LGBTQ+ content, but there are a lot of gay characters I’m offered,” Parsons said when asked what kind of scripts he sent. “The majority, I would say, that is offered to me is gay.”
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“I think if you had told me ten years ago that I’d be an out-actor and that’s why I’d be offered loads of gay roles, I would have said, ‘Well, that seems like an easy job, tired thing to to happen,” he added.
In addition to his latest role in Spoiler Alert, Parsons has recently played LGBT characters in the HBO movies The Normal Heart (2014), The Boys in the Band (2020), and Hollywood (the miniseries). Parsons came out as gay in a 2012 profile in the Newyork Times.
“They are such rich characters and in such interesting storylines that waking me up from how much I love an actor – and, if I may say, artist – put myself to work,” Parsons said about these roles.
Elsewhere during the interview Parsons noted that he “grew up in a time when the first thing I think of every time” on the topic of being openly gay in Hollywood” is when Ellen [DeGeneres] game out.”
“It was so exciting. As much as it helped in the end, it was also f—— scary as a gay who… wanted a career for himself, on the same path, in the same industry,” the actor added. “So it’s been a long time .”
The critically acclaimed and moving memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello was made into the movie Spoiler Alert, starring Parsons and Ben Aldridge.
The film depicts the 13-year relationship between Ausiello (Parsons) and photographer Kit Cowan (Aldridge), who passed away in February 2015 at the age of 43 after a grueling 11-month battle with a rare and aggressive cancer.
The creator of the movie is Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer, The Big Sick, The Eyes of Tammy Faye). As Cowan’s parents, Sally Field and Tony winner Bill Irwin star in the film alongside Queer Eye’s Jeffery Self, Nikki M. James, Tara Summers, Paco Lozano and Antoni Porowski.
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For its domestic release on December 9, Spoiler Alert will premiere in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on December 2. A worldwide release is expected on December 16.
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In an interview with Variety’s Just for Variety podcast published Wednesday, Parsons, 49, revealed that “the majority” of the roles he gets are for gay characters.
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