2:51 pm - 01/15/2013
While you may have been watching the Golden Globes the other night, the second season of Lena Dunham's HBO comedy Girls premiered. And although it's full of girl talk, as the New York Times recently pointed out, it's all full of boys. One in particular doesn't fit the mold, with out actor Andrew Rannells (and Out100 honoree) playing Elijah, Dunham's character's gay ex-boyfriend.
If you were watching—we know you were—you may have been shocked (and/or pleased) to see Rannells, a star on NBC's The New Normal, in the buff. As Rannells told the Times:
"That was my first sex scene and nude scene. I took that nudity waiver as a badge of honor. I took a picture of it, I sent it to my friends. I didn’t even really read it. That’s the embarrassing part. I was so excited to sign it: 'I’ll show anything!' ”
"So the idea that you were gonna have a bad sex scene, where you also had to sort of fluff yourself, I was like, 'How the fuck?'" Rannells said. "Allison was my first, and she could not have been nicer about it ... She made me very relaxed."
While shooting the scene, Rannells was looking out for Williams, who has gotten through several "Girls" sex scenes while eschewing Dunham-levels of nudity. "I think I properly protected her nakedness," he recalled. "I mean, I was also trying to cover my penis. It's like really degrading -- you wear a cock-sock and you just tie it around yourself and it's pretty humiliating; although then I became wildly comfortable with it at a certain point. I was just like standing around. I remember Lena saying to me at one point, 'Do you want to put on pants?' And I was like, 'Oh, yeah, yeah, of course.'"
Rannells, an openly gay actor simultaneously playing gay roles on "Girls" and "The New Normal", (Um and he did voicework for shows like Pokemon and that Yugioh show and that show about Sonic the Hedgehog or something)initially approached the storyline with some trepidation. Reflecting on the fact that Elijah has now had sex with two of the four "Girls," he said, "It was not my personal experience coming out, I didn't do that, but I know a lot of folks who did. I asked some of my gay friends before I did it, 'Well, do you think this is realistic?' And they all said yes ... particularly at that age. I'm 34 -- I'm not going to get drunk and stick it in a girl right now. It's not gonna happen. But at 22 or 23, when you're still sorting out identity and all that bullshit, I think it's more of an option. You're like, 'Well, why not? Give it a shot.'"
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eerie ventriloquist dummy looking dude...
oh, and this popped up on my tumblr feed. what did he say about TNN?
Andrew Rannells: 'I'll Show Anything!'
While you may have been watching the Golden Globes the other night, the second season of Lena Dunham's HBO comedy Girls premiered. And although it's full of girl talk, as the New York Times recently pointed out, it's all full of boys. One in particular doesn't fit the mold, with out actor Andrew Rannells (and Out100 honoree) playing Elijah, Dunham's character's gay ex-boyfriend.
If you were watching—we know you were—you may have been shocked (and/or pleased) to see Rannells, a star on NBC's The New Normal, in the buff. As Rannells told the Times:
"That was my first sex scene and nude scene. I took that nudity waiver as a badge of honor. I took a picture of it, I sent it to my friends. I didn’t even really read it. That’s the embarrassing part. I was so excited to sign it: 'I’ll show anything!' ”
"So the idea that you were gonna have a bad sex scene, where you also had to sort of fluff yourself, I was like, 'How the fuck?'" Rannells said. "Allison was my first, and she could not have been nicer about it ... She made me very relaxed."
While shooting the scene, Rannells was looking out for Williams, who has gotten through several "Girls" sex scenes while eschewing Dunham-levels of nudity. "I think I properly protected her nakedness," he recalled. "I mean, I was also trying to cover my penis. It's like really degrading -- you wear a cock-sock and you just tie it around yourself and it's pretty humiliating; although then I became wildly comfortable with it at a certain point. I was just like standing around. I remember Lena saying to me at one point, 'Do you want to put on pants?' And I was like, 'Oh, yeah, yeah, of course.'"
Rannells, an openly gay actor simultaneously playing gay roles on "Girls" and "The New Normal", (Um and he did voicework for shows like Pokemon and that Yugioh show and that show about Sonic the Hedgehog or something)initially approached the storyline with some trepidation. Reflecting on the fact that Elijah has now had sex with two of the four "Girls," he said, "It was not my personal experience coming out, I didn't do that, but I know a lot of folks who did. I asked some of my gay friends before I did it, 'Well, do you think this is realistic?' And they all said yes ... particularly at that age. I'm 34 -- I'm not going to get drunk and stick it in a girl right now. It's not gonna happen. But at 22 or 23, when you're still sorting out identity and all that bullshit, I think it's more of an option. You're like, 'Well, why not? Give it a shot.'"
SOURCE
eerie ventriloquist dummy looking dude...
oh, and this popped up on my tumblr feed. what did he say about TNN?