“When I accepted this role and what it entailed, my family and friends were like, ‘Why do you want to play a gay dude?’ They also wanted to know why every time a Black man is shown on TV as gay he has to be on the down low. But they didn’t look at the ramification: I’m playing a very successful down low rapper on a network television show. That’s never happened before.”
— The L.A. Complex actor Andra Fuller on playing closeted rapper Kaldrick King
(via Rod 2.0)
I bet his friends and family would never ask him why he wanted to play a serial killer, or even a bank robber. But a gay dude? That’s just too nasty…
Pathetic.