Orville Peck admits cowboy Brad Pitt was his sexual awakening, says he’d “risk it all” for the A-lister
Thelma & Louise.With barely seven minutes of screen time, he makes quite the impression—particularly the scene when, post-coitus, his handsome hitchhiker J.D.
role-plays a robbery shirtless, donning a white cowboy hat and using hairdryer as a prop gun.You want to talk about iconography?
In that moment, each and every one of Pitt’s abs became an icon.Subscribe to our daily newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.So, it’s perhaps none-too-surprising that masked country crooner Orville Peck cites the A-list actor’s breakthrough role as one of his personal sexual awakenings because, duh, who didn’t feel some time of way the first time they laid eyes on then-twenty-something Pitt in those perfectly snug bluejeans?But also, as far as early crushes go, this one makes a lot of sense for Peck, a singer-songwriter whose entire persona plays into that same cowboy mystique, and lassoing its queer appeal.This revelation came up in the premiere episode of Grindr‘s giggle-inducing new podcast, Who’s The A**hole?
hosted by none other than drag superstar Katya Zamolodchikova (but your dad just call her Katya).A post shared by Katya Zamolodchikova (@katya_zamo)As the pod’s first guest, Peck is in the hot seat for the queen’s hilarious, probing line of questioning.
