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.
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.
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