I have so many guys waiting to be profiled that I forget who some of them are. Today I looked in a folder entitled "Johnny Gray,", with a lot of screen shots, probably taken from the IMDB or his Instagram before I moved on to other tasks. They haven't even been adjusted (converted to .jpgs, cropped, reduced, brightened, desaturated).
The research sent me down quite an internet rabbit hole. Various configurations of John/Johnny and Gray/Grey yielded:
A famous brand of guitars.
A runner who won at the Olympics four times and holds the record for the 600 meter sprint.
A rugby player who received the Sir Willie Purves Quaitch Award in 2014.
The author of the gender-polarized and heteronormative best-seller Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
A Wall Street broker, played by Mickey Roarke, who gets involved in heterosexual BDSM games in 9 1/2 Weeks.
A "secretly gay" 18th century gentleman, played by Oscar Kennedy and David Berry (left), in the tv series Outlander.
Returning to the folder for clues, I found photos of two n*de guys. Maybe boyfriends or co-stars?
Found him.
Our Jonny Gray was born in 1999, and grew up in a suburb of London, Ontario His on-screen career began in 2012, when he reported on the King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Hua Hin, Thailand.
It's to support elephant conservation, but it still looks strange.
Next came Disney stardom with Max & Shred, and three Bruno & Boots movies: Go Jump in the Pool (2016), This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (2017), and The Wizzle War (2018).
Based on the Macdonald Hall book series by Gordon Korman, the movies feature two students at an exclusive private school near Toronto. Jonny changes from superego to id as the impulsive "let's put an iguana in the headmaster's bed" Bruno, who buddy-bonds with the wet-blanket "but I have to write a report on thumbtacks" Boots (Callan Potter).
The book series seems to push up the gay subtext and eliminate the hetero-romance. I'm not sure about the movies.
More after the break