Boldly gaying where no ones gone before: Anthony Rapp cast in new Star Trek
Anthony Rapp of Rent fame is beaming up to the new CBS All Access series, “Star Trek: Discovery,” as the first character in the legendary franchise to be conceived as gay from the very start.
Rapp will play Lieutenant Stamets, a Starfleet officer aboard the Starship Discovery who is an expert in fungus — otherwise known as an astromycologist. In 2012, he was dubbed “one of the first openly gay men on Broadway,” and has starred in a number of theater productions including, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and If/Then. The movie version of Rent is among the films he’s starred in, in addition to “School Ties” and “A Beautiful Mind.”
Rapp tweeted his excitement after StarTrek.com made the official announcement:
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Although the writers, producers and director of the most recent movie, “Star Trek Beyond,” chose to reveal Lieutenant Sulu’s sexual orientation was not straight, but gay, Rapp’s character will be the first original leading man in the 50-year-old franchise to be shown as out, and to be played by an actor who is out. The man who originated the part of Sulu on television in 1966, George Takei, and Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the rebooted movie series, are also gay, but play straight characters.
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