I always start profiles with three questions: 1. Any nude photos? 2. Is he gay in real life? 3. Has he played any gay characters?
With Mark Duplass, #1-#2 are answered instantly. I first heard his name on the Nude Celebrity Subreddit, and a google search yields images on AZMen, the OMG Blog, Mr Man, LPSG, AusCaps, Cocktails & Cocktalk -- well, everywhere.
And his heterosexual identity established in the second word of a google search: Age: 46. Spouse: Katie, married in 2006. Yes, I know that he could be bi or closeted, but we'll skip over that to make things easier.
How about gay roles?
Mark was born in New Orleans in 1976, and attended the University of Texas at Austin and the City College of New York. He and his brother Jay started Duplass Brothers Productions in 1996 (when he was only 20 years old). He has written all of the 15 movies they have released, produced eight,starred in six, and directed four.
Plus he has about 40 other acting roles listed on the IMDB. I'll check out the ones he says he's most famous for, and the ones with nudity.
Maurice drew my attention, but it's not the gay romance based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, it's a short about the owner of the last porno theater in Paris (and maybe the world). Well, we already knew that Mark was straight.
Humpday (2009) has a DVD cover of two naked guys glaring at each other. They're Mark and Joshua Leonard, whose "bromance is taken to another level when they participate in an art film project." A review says that they just make a bet that they'll be able to overcome their homophobia long enough to have sex. Wait -- that's not what homophobia is.
So I'm supposed to watch two guys doing things that I like, but they find disgusting? I'm getting a stomach ache just thinking about it. Apparently it's "mumblecore," lots of long, pointless conversations.
The French DVD cover says "a heterosexual film for the gays, a gay film for the heteros." Shudder.
True Adolescents (2009): Mark chaperones his cousin "and a pal" on a camping trip. Could they be a gay couple? According to a review, he opens the tent and the boys are kissing. This constitutes a "hint" that Oliver is "questioning his sexuality." No, dude is gay.
Your Sister's Sister (2011): "After the death of..." Well, who cares? These movies all begin with someone's death.
Anyhow, Jack (Mark) visits his friend Iris's private island and has sex with her sister Hannah, who is a lesbian -- I guess she's straight around the edges. She gets pregnant, and Jack and Iris become a couple and decide to raise the baby themselves.
This reminds me of a Woody Allen comedy, or one of those snobbish short stories in The New Yorker
Um...Mark Birbiglia plays Al.
Duck Butter (2018): Dissatisfied with dating men, two women vow to spend 24 hours together, "hoping to find a new way to create intimacy." Lesbians already exist, ladies. Or did they all turn straight when Mark had sex with them?
But their discovery that women can get together results in obsession, violence, and death.
Mark and his brother Jay play themselves, producing the film that the focus character is starring in.
Mark's next four movies are about death:
Creep (2014): a videographer takes a job recording the last messages of a dying man (Mark) to his wife and unborn child, but it turns into a cat-and-mouse game of despair.
Paddleton (2019): not the one with the teddy bear. A guy (Mark) buddy-bonds with his dying friend. Yuck.
Wes is Dying (2022): Two filmmakers document their journey to see their dying friend, hoping that they will make it big. Did you just read Chapters 1 and 2 of the filmmakers handbook, Mark? There are other plotlines besides converting lesbians and dying.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit.
Biodome (2022): Everybody on Earth dies except for two men, the former U.S. president (Mark) and his advisor (Sterling K. Brown), who are stuck in a biodome for the rest of their lives. The only way they can possibly engage in intimate behavior is if one of them turns into a woman, because same-sex desire and behavior is disgusting. They manage it, and even manage to have a child together before they die.
Left: Sterling's bulge.
The League (2009-15): His character disapproves of breast-feeding: "breast are to be ogled and fondled, not used to nourish infants."
The Mindy Project (2012-17): His character is a male midwife. I thought midwives did breastfeeding.
The Morning Show (2019-23): A closeted lesbian in a scandalous relationship that could destroy all their lives.
The Long, Long Night (2022): Best friends (Mark, Barrett O'Brien) struggle to find meaning after yet another death.
Mark and Barrett are close friends in real life. Dude has a lot of male friends, yet he can't understand gay people.
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F*k the Sadness. Let's get some Adam Devine in here.
And some more dicks.
"Love Lies Bleeding": Lesbian neo-noir in the New Mexico desert, with some musclemen and bonus dicks
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