Meet Danny Ramirez, the scorching-hot star set to lead Todd Haynes’ explicit gay romance
May December, trailblazing queer filmmaker Todd Haynes began teasing his next movie last year: An “intense” 1930s-set gay love story about two men fleeing from LA to Mexico.Seeing that it’s a queer period-piece romance, excited fans have already jokingly dubbed it “Carol for men”—referring to Haynes’ 2015 film with Cate Blanchett & Rooney Mara—but it sounds like this upcoming feature will be decidedly more… explicit.Haynes says the film is based off an idea from Joaquin Phoenix, who is attached to star.
Apparently, the actor’s been encouraging the director to push the film into “dangerous” sexual territory, and that it’ll “likely” be rated NC-17—which we have to imagine means lots of explicit nudity!Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.We’ve heard precious few details about the yet-to-be-titled film since last fall, but now a new name has been confirmed to star opposite Phoenix and things are really heating up.Danny Ramirez to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ upcoming movie.It will follow two men who are intense lovers as they leave California for Mexico.(https://t.co/Cmr9ZqnPCl) pic.twitter.com/AnQpWmeruZAccording to Deadline, Danny Ramirez has signed on as the film’s other romantic lead, an actor best known for his roles in the 2022 blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick and as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Joaquin Torres, a hero set to assume the mantle of Falcon in next year’s Captain America: Brave New World.In other words, the 28-year-old Ramirez’s career is on fire, and it’s pretty cool to think that one of the MCU’s next big superheroes apparently has no qualms diving head-first into an erotic gay love story.In his controversial feature debut, Todd Haynes offered up a cinematic threeway on “otherness.”Original reports seemed to imply Phoenix would play a corrupt cop, while the other character was intended to be Native-American.
