Actor Jack Falahee is tired of being asked if he’s gay
“It’s pretty reductive to ask just the actor playing the gay character what his sexuality is if you’re not going to ask that question of people playing straight characters on the show.”
— How to Get Away with Murder‘s Jack Falahee, who plays Connor Walsh, a promiscuous queer man, on his frustrations with the press wanting to know if he’s gay in real life.
“People have been asking me about my sexuality ever since that OUT interview,” the actor told Culture Vulture’s Sona Charaipotra, adding, “I’m very confident in my sexuality, and I really don’t like talking about my romantic life in the press…. I really don’t see what my sexuality has to do with the characters, and I think that’s private. But I find it interesting, the fascination with picking apart or outing actors who play homosexual characters on TV or in films. We don’t have that same fascination with actors who are portraying heterosexual characters.”
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