Turns out ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ almost had a gay hero… until the scene was cut
A Quiet Place: Day One has been one of the major success stories of the summer box office, with audiences making plenty of noise for the alien invasion flick to the tune of $253 million.And though we always stan and support queen Lupita Nyong’o, it didn’t appear Day One had much else to offer the gays, which—as a viral tweet puts it—was for good reason: Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.There are no gay people in A Quiet Place because y’all never shut upBut, as a new deleted scene from the apocalyptic film reveals, there may have actually been a queer character in the movie the entire time!*Spoilers ahead for the plot of Quiet Place: Day One*Nyong’o plays Sam, a terminally ill cancer patient traveling into Manhattan with her hospice program when the sh*t hits the fan and extraterrestrial creatures begin falling to earth, using their extra-sensory hearing to swiftly wipe out much of the city’s population.Having already made her peace, Sam decides she just wants to get to Harlem for one last slice of pizza from her favorite spot before she dies, and she has some help along her perilous journey thanks to a young, English law student named Eric (rising star Joseph Quinn).Sam initially meets Eric as he’s escaping from a flooded subway station and, at least within the official theatrical version of the film, we never learn much about who he is—or was—before the aliens arrived.However, People has exclusively premiered a deleted scene where Eric discussions what brought him to NYC in the first place—and its a story that’ll feel especially familiar to any queer kid who left their small town behind for the big city.Apparently, there were practical reasons a gay wedding scene was cut from the upcoming ‘Borderlands’—but we’ve been here before!In a rare moment of rest, Sam asks Eric where he was headed on that fateful subway ride, which inspires him to open up about his chidlhood:“When I left.
