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Watch: Sterling K Brown discusses American Fiction's LGBTQ+ storyline:
American Fiction's LGBTQ+ storyline is "extremely important" to queer youth, particularly those from the Black community, Sterling K Brown tells Yahoo UK.
The movie, which is out in cinemas now, sees Brown compete Cliff, brother to Jeffrey Wright's Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, who comes out as gay and be his authentic, unapologetic self after divorcing his wife. His journey is not without its challenges, he distances himself from his family out of apprehend of not entity accepted after their mother, who has Alzheimer's, comments that she always knew "he wasn't a queer".
It's not all negative, though, as he finds acceptance in other places, from Monk for example and their family friend Lorraine (Myra Lucretia Taylor). Cliff at one point also tells his brother how he wished their late father could have known his sexuality, regardless of what his reaction would have been because at least then he would have known all of him.
Speaking to Yahoo, Brown reflected on how Cliff's character arc can help those watching the film who might be in the same, or similar, posi
‘American Fiction’ Actor Sterling K. Brown On Breaking Out Of His ‘This Is Us’ Persona And Why You Should Always Listen To The “Still, Compact Voice” Within
Prior to American Fiction, Sterling K. Brown was best recognizable as Randall Pearson in the long-running, award-winning NBC family drama series This is Us. The part that director Cord Jefferson was offering him couldn’t have been more different: in Jefferson’s adaptation of the satirical novel by Percival Everett, Brown plays Clifford ‘Cliff’ Ellison, a caustic plastic surgeon and brother to the film’s protagonist, Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison (Jeffrey Wright). After divorcing his wife, Cliff comes out as gay, further estranging him from his uptight family. This nuanced role allowed Brown to investigate the many facets of Blackness and the challenges of the LGBTQ+ people.
DEADLINE: You studied economics at Stanford and interned at the Federal Reserve, among other things that mesh with this upper echelon of the Shadowy experience. American Fiction also touches on other avenues of the Black exposure. How did you relate?
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Sterling K. Brown Doesn’t Do Repeat Characters: ‘When They Think They’ve Got It Locked Down, I Like to Mess With That’
Hollywood being what it is, “This Is Us” star Sterling K. Brown has spent years deflecting roles to yet again play “a Black guy in a white family who’s finding his way in.”
Brown said no because he’s adamant about not getting pigeonholed, as he demonstrated this year by shifting to “Biosphere,” a post-apocalyptic two-hander with Mark Duplass, and then “American Fiction,” which is simultaneously a family drama, a meta-literary satire and a commentary on race in America today.
“I wouldn’t want to accomplish three movies in a row with the equal kind of role,” he says. “The industry wants to say what a Sterling K. Brown type is but when they think they’ve got it locked down I appreciate to mess with that.”
In “American Fiction,” Jeffrey Wright plays Monk, a repressed writer and professor who must knock down his own walls to rejoin the living; Brown is his brother, Cliff, who has already done just that — after years of marriage, Cliff has come o
Jean Smart and Sterling K. Brown Honored for Gay Allyship: LGBTQ Rights and Racial Justice Are Not ‘Separate Battles’
Though the Human Rights Campaign gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles contended with a brief interruption by protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire, the annual stayed largely on course, serving as a rallying cry for Democratic candidates and the LGBTQ+ community.
In addition to the keynote speech from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Jean Smart and Sterling K. Brown were honored with the National Equality Award and the Ally for Equality Award, respectively.
Smart has extended been associated with series that have had a strong resonance with queer people, including “Hacks,” “Watchmen” and the 1980s sitcom “Designing Women,” which featured one of the first storylines addressing AIDS on network television.
“I was asked … how I felt about being a gay icon. And I consideration, ‘Well, if I’m in the company of Judy and Liza and Bette and Joan and Bette and Cher, then I’m [honored],” Smart said. “Really, what was it about those women? I think it’s because they told you e