Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorRonen Rubinstein was anxious for his family and friends back in his native Staten Island to watch the second episode of “9-1-1: Lone Star.” He told them he was playing Rob Lowe’s gay son on the Fox procedural, but he wasn’t sure what they’d think of the very steamy encounter between his character, T.K.
Strand, and his future police officer boyfriend Carlos Reyes, played by openly gay actor Rafael L. Silva.“Carlos and I have a huge make-out scene where we, like, burst through the door, and we’re ripping our clothes off,” Rubinstein says. “It’s super hot and it just goes on.