Call Your Mother, Crute is one of the few out actors on prime-time network television playing a queer character.As a 25-year-old gay Black man, he knows the importance of this representation.
Most gay characters on network TV have a Modern Family aesthetic, where “they’re grown and figuring out how to have kids and do stuff,” Crute explains.
Seeing a young single gay guy living in Los Angeles hits differently than most roles.“There are not that many millennial, Gen Z queer icons right now,” says Crute, who is adding some needed flavor to the mix.The Georgia native is chameleon-like in his roles; it’s hard to believe they’re all the same person.