Though she performed an out lesbian character within the completely iconic 1999 movie But I’m A Cheerleader, Clea DuVall was closeted on the time, and scared of being outed. “We started the press cycle for it, I remember feeling like, ‘Oh shit, I need to hide, I need to stop’,” she instructed The Independent.
“I was very closeted and very afraid of people finding out I was gay,” Clea mentioned. “It was the ’90s, there was no conversation about sexuality – you were just not going to talk about it.”
Though she starred in loads of queer-coded roles over her profession, Clea did not publicly come out till 2016, after writing, directing, and appearing in The Intervention. “I’ve played a lot of gay characters, but I haven’t really played a gay character that is gay in a way that is the gay that I feel like I am, if that makes sense,” she mentioned of the position.
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