Ryan Reynolds is reportedly hopeful that Deadpool ’s pansexuality will be represented on screen in future Marvel pic because " this world … take to represent and reflect the world in very real path . "
For many years, viewers have been asking for more (and better!) LGBTQ+ representation in their favorite TV shows and movies. However, it’s not just the fans — many actors have been, too.
Here are 15 actors who asked the studio to make their character queer:
1.From his audition withJohn BoyegaforStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,Oscar Isaacfelt “an absolute natural chemistry” with him, so he didn’t find it “a total shock” when fans began shipping his character, Poe, with John’s character, Finn. He “kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would have been taken further in the other films, but [he doesn’t] have control over that.”
He toldVariety , " I call back , it was an sense of hearing and the two of us just , like , did that first scene back to back , butt to butt , you know , just like doing the scene together , practicing it in this room . And it was just like directly all kind of ruse , everything just collapsed , and there ’s like an intimacy that was very just , like , there . And I think the fact that neither of us shied away from that while we were shooting as well , I imagine it was just like , these are two guy that are glad being intimate with each other emotionally . "
2.While working onThe Amazing Spider-Man,Andrew Garfieldsuggested to producer Matt Tolmach and director Marc Webb that his version of Peter Parker could be gay orbisexual. He asked them, “What if MJ is a dude? Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking! … So whycan’the be gay? Whycan’the be into boys?”
He even had the perfect actor in mind to bet MJ .
He toldEntertainment Weekly , " I ’ve been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan sinceThe Wire . He ’s so magnetic and gifted . It ’d be even better — we ’d have interracial hermaphroditism ! "
3.A year after Stephanie Beatriz came out as bisexual on Twitter, Daniel Goor, theBrooklyn Nine-Nineco-creator, asked how she’d feel about making her character, Rosa Diaz, bi as well. She agreed, and they worked together to create the storyline.
She told theIndependent , " It was important to me that ' bisexual ' was said because I grew up in a time where it was n’t heard often . "
4.When Asia Kate Dillon joined theJohn Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellumcast as the Adjudicator, they “just said to [director] Chad [Stahelski] and Keanu [Reeves], ‘You have a real opportunity here. I’m a nonbinary person. This character could be nonbinary.'”
They toldInsider , " There ’s nothing in the motion picture to indicate that they have to be a cisgender somebody with a binary gender identity . … add gender diversity to theJohn Wickuniverse was something that Keanu and Chad and Lionsgate were whole on board for , because to them , it ’s just a no - brainer . They want the John Wickworld to be as diverse as potential . So it was a real kick for me to get to bring that to the table and have it be cordially get . "
5.While filmingStranger Things, Maya Hawke “started to feel like [her character Robin] and Steve shouldn’t get together, and that she’s gay.” So, she talked it over with the series creators and directors, who all felt the same way.
She told theWall Street Journal , " The Duffer Brothers and I — and Shawn Levy — had a lot of conversation throughout shooting and it was n’t really until we were scoot Episode 4 and 5 , I think , that we made the final determination . It was a collaborative conversation , and I ’m really , really happy with the path that it went . "
6.ForThor: Ragnarok, Tessa Thompson pitched the idea of Valkyrie being bisexual (like she is in the Marvel comics) to director Taika Waititi. He fought to keep a scene where a woman walked out of Valkyrie’s bedroom in the movie as long as he could, but it ultimately had to be cut.
Tessa toldRolling Stone , " There were things that we spill about that we allow to subsist in the word-painting , but mayhap not be explicit in the movie . … There ’s a great snapshot of me falling back from one of my sisters who ’s just been slain . In my head , that was my devotee . "
However , Valkyrie ’s gender was confirmed on screen in the next film , Thor : Love and Thunder .
7.Anna Kendrick acknowledged thePitch Perfectfans who shipped her character, Beca, with Brittany Snow’s character, Chloe. She also confirmed that she and Brittany played their characters as if “they’re secretly in love.”
Anna toldthe Advocate , " I experience like it would be a real betrayal to not choose Brittany . I stand for , our case are pretty much in a lesbian kinship . … We ’ve joke that there will be all - out passionate love in the third movie . Too bad we still require that PG-13 valuation . "
Theyreportedlyfilmed a kissing scene forPitch Perfect 3 , but it was curve .
8.After her character Santana hooked up with Brittany onGlee, Naya Rivera was “kind of encouraging [the showrunners] to make it more serious and not play around with it ‘cause there are people out there that it’s not a joke to.”
accord toNME , she added , " It ’s their tangible lives . "
9.InThe Conversation, Harrison Ford secretly played Martin Stett as gay “so nobody would recognize [him] fromAmerican Graffiti.”
According to theGuardian , he enunciate , " There was no role there until I decided to make him [ gay ] . "
10.WhenEllen’s viewership dropped, ABCreportedlysuggested the titular character get a puppy, but behind the scenes, Ellen DeGeneres and the writers were advocating for her to come out as a lesbian.
After a lot of pushback and negotiations , the character lastly got to come out in " The Puppy Episode , " making her the first American TV track to do so . Ellen herself came out two week before the episode premiered .
11.Ryan Reynolds is reportedly hopeful that Deadpool/Wade Wilson’s pansexuality will be represented on screen in futureDeadpoolmovies because “this universe…needs to represent and reflect the world in very real ways.”
During a2018 San Diego Comic - Con board , he said , " The peachy thing aboutDeadpoolis that we ’re allowed to do things that other superhero picture do n’t needfully do . It ’s something that I ’d fuck to see more of , sure enough through Wade , certainly through this universe because it ’s something that we ’re build out more . "
12.After Lachlan Watson was cast as Theo onChilling Adventures of Sabrina, they asked showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers to slow down his onscreen transition. They “influenced” Theo’s arc “by existing and showing up and being a different person, a different identity that the writers may not have even known about before.”
Lachlan toldMTV News , " I showed that it was potential to just keep off a 2nd , and to just live in the gray-haired area . … What was really , really important for me with this … season was to show a powerful , strong , queer character reference who never has to be saved . They can , in fact , save other hoi polloi . "
13.InFinding Forrester, Sean Connery “wanted to play [William Forrester] as gay,” but “the studio didn’t want us to advertise it.” So, he carried out that characterization secretly.
Director Gus Van Sant say theGuardian , " It was n’t in the script . "
Sean toldEntertainment Weekly , " I guess there could be undercurrents that [ my ] character is closeted . It depends on the response of masses , and who ’s watching . "
14.In the fourth season ofGrey’s Anatomy, Sara Ramírez told series creator Shonda Rhimes that they “wanted to pursue a storyline where Callie would discover that she was attracted to women as well as men.”
Callie terminate up becoming the longest - running LGBTQ+ character on TV . She get to have a quixotic storyline with Jessica Capshaw ’s character , Arizona Robbins , and they ended up getting marry .
nous author Krista Vernoff toldVariety , " I do n’t think it can be overstated what the societal impact of Callie ’s androgyny was on the culture at large . Bisexuality was almost unseeable on television receiver at that stage . I in person have two kidskin who have come out as bisexual person , and I do n’t call up it ’s disconnected from Callie and Sara publically come out . "
15.And finally, onRutherford Falls, Bobbie Yang was “originally male-identifying and gay.” However, Jesse Leigh wanted “to make the role [them]self,” so they “wore what [they] wear every day — [their] bell-bottoms — and [they] put on a cute wing liner and some blush.” After they got the part, Bobbie was rewritten to be nonbinary.
Jesse toldPulse spike , " It was n’t until I actually booked the function that I ride down with the writers and they had asked me about growing up and being nonbinary and stories about being nonbinary from my childhood . I felt passing lucky that the character was kind of sculpted around my liveliness . "
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Ryan Reynolds is reportedly hopeful that Deadpool’s pansexuality will be represented on screen in future Marvel movies because “this universe…needs to represent and reflect the world in very real ways."
