according to Sarah Michelle Gellar.Sarah explained people thinking Fred is gay is something "everyone's thought for a long time," and the movie was going to lean into it.
In a Reddit AMA, Matthew Lillard also talked about Fred being gay in the original script, however a lot of things were cut following a test screening with parents.Several cast members have said that they did film the scene, including Rebel Wilson, who told fans at a red carpet that "the studio didn't want to put it in the finished movie."Georgia also said that the Succession characters lived "in a circle" where "anything goes," so any of the characters could've explored their sexuality.
She always thought Roman felt "a bit fluid and pan," too.Looking back on The Color Purple, he said, "I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss.
I got a lot of criticism for that." He continued, saying that thoughts of making Spencer bi were "shut down by the fourth episode with his crush on JJ."Speaking about the A League of Their Own TV series, which focuses more on the queer and Black stories the original movie omitted, Rosie said, "There were lots of cultural events for the gay community that we hadn’t yet lived [in 1992], and so it just touches me to see what Abbi [Jacobson] has done and how she incorporated the reality of the Black women in the league and the gay women in the league and kind of opened it up to a 2022 worldview."Marlene recalled, "They were like, 'Ew, she's a lesbian, and she's looking at her vagina!' And we were like, 'What?