Big Sky actor for his role as One Life to Live's Billy Douglas, the first gay character on a soap opera, which he portrayed during the early '90s."I'd grown up going to Baptist school, Christian school, and stuff," Phillippe told KFC Radio. "My first role ever, though, coming out of the Christian school when I was a senior in high school, I played the first gay character on a soap opera, the first gay teenager ever.
So I was shunned at that point, so they were already out of the picture."His religious parents were also unpleased with his follow-up role: Sebastian Valmont, the lecherous antihero of the 1999 film Cruel Intentions, which also included queer characters.