Ade M"Cormack: The "Elephant Escape" kid grows up, gets a BFA, directs a gay movie, stars in "Castlevania," and doesn't come out. With bonus nude dudes.

  

In The Great Elephant Escape (1995), 14-year old Matt (Joseph Gordon Levitt) goes on safari in Africa, where local boy Jomo (Frederick Tocumboh M’Cormack) falls in love with him.  It's a one-sided but very nearly textual romance.  Also they help an elephant escape.

We know what happened to Joseph Gordon-Levitt:

He played the aliens' son in Third Rock from the Sun (1996-2001).

A gay guy on  That 70s Show (1998).

A straight guy in the gay-themed Latter Days (2003)

A teenager turned gay by abuse in  Mysterious Skin (2004).

And then a lot of straight characters, like a cop in Dark Knight Rising (2012), porn addict Don Jon (2013), a party boy in Christmas in The Night Before (2015), and Jimminy Cricket in Pinocchio (2022)

But what about Frederick Tocumboh M’Cormack, now named Adetokumboh, or just Ade?

Great Elephant was the Sierra Leone-born actor's first film role. He grew up in Nigeria and Kenya, then moved to the U.S., where he attended the Conservatory of Theater Arts at SUNY Purchase.  He starred in The Cider House Rules, Julius Caesar, and A Comedy of Errors, and graduated magna cum laude with a BFA (and the President's Achievement Award) in 2004.

He lived in New York for several years, starring in the off-Broadway productions of The Three Sisters, Salt Chocolate, and My Children, My Africa (all about apartheid in South Africa), and the movie Whiskey Echo (about the war in Sudan).

Viewers of Lost know Ade as Yemi, the younger brother of the mysterious Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, left). In three episodes (2006), he grows up, becomes a priest, is forced into an airplane loaded with drugs, and crashes on the paranormal island.

Viewers of Heroes know him as the mobster Tuko, who appears in four episodes (2007): he runs afoul of the superheroes while searching for an important shipping box with his buddies Will and Ricky (Dominic Keating, Holt McCallany)

Ade returned to Sierra Leone in 2006 for a small part in Blood Diamond opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou (left).

Many more action-adventure, police, and serious political dramas followed, including Quantum of Solace, 24, NCIS, Criminal Minds, The OA, Los Angeles, and X-Men 97.

His biggest role to date is Isaac in the animated Castlevania (2018-2021).  The "I hate all humans!" and "There is  no such thing as love in this world!" thug started out as one of Dracula's generals in his war against humanity, but eventually mellowed and became king of Styria.  He doesn't display any heterosexual interest.

The animated Blood of Zeus (2020-25) is also getting a lot of fan attention.  Ade plays Kofi, an Ethiopian slave who joins Evios and Heron (Derek Philips, Chris Diamantopolous) to fight the demons and monsters threatening Olympus. He has a wife back home and a gay-subtext romance with Evios.

More after the break.  Caution: Explicit

Ade has written, produced, and directed several shorts, some with gay content.  The Irish Goodbye (2018) features a Syrian refugee and an Irish tourist (Abubakr Ali, Jack Lowe) meeting in Los Angeles, where they "embark on a journey of trust, abandonment, tragedy and privilege."  That's quite ponderous for a simple hookup, but it was shown at Outfest.

The German King (2019) is a biopic of King Rudolph Douala Manga Bell (1873-1914), who led the resistance to the German occupation of Cameroon. It is being developed into a tv series. Here Ade hangs out with Prince Camille, the King's great-grandson (I have found no references to the Prince elsewhere.)

You're probably wondering if Ade is gay. 

Obviously.  He writes gay-themed movies, gives his pronouns, posts on "trans lives matter" and gay-positive churches, and fills his Instagram with photos of his sister and brother in law and various cousins.  He attends events with men.  No women anywhere except co-stars and relatives.  Here he is wishing "you and yours" a happy Valentine's Day.  

But being open would have a severe impact on his popularity in Africa.  Here he meets with Chief John Elufa Manga Williams of the City of Lime, Sierra Leone.  He was a Distinguished Guest at the Sierra Leone Grammar School in Freetown.  Neither of those events would have happened if anyone suspected.

Maybe that's why there are no photos anywhere of Ade n*de, or even with his shirt off.  

We'll have to make do with random Kenyan guys.

And one from Sierra Leone.

See also:

Gogo Lomo-David: "Shameless" actor, singer, model, motivational speaker. Did I mention his c*ck?  Nigerian-American actor.

Theo James: Why is he n*ked all the time, and has he done anything gay-positive?  Castlevania co-star.

Gemstones Episode 1.6 Continued: Scotty flirts, BJ is spanked, and Kelvin says "Let's hook up." With bonus Kenya c*ck

  The Great Elephant Escape