"Sexy Beast": Ruaridh is gay for pay, Farley explores gay trauma, Gal shows his d*ck, and Vampire Bill gawks at guys.

 After reviewing Elspeth, starring the actress who played Arlene on the vampire soap opera True Blood actor, I decied to look for recent projects involving Stephen Moyer, who played Vampire Bill.  

I found him playing Teddy, the main villain in the British television series Sexy Beast (2024), a prequel to the 2000 movie:  he hires thieves and best buds Gal (James McArdle, left) and Don (Emun Elliot) for increasingly dangerous jobs, thus jeopardizing the relationships with the Women of Their Dreams. 

There is also a "Young Teddy,"  Ruaridh Moluca, who appears in a clip on AZ Nude Men smooching a heavy-lidded decadent gay guy while a woman is being strangled.  

So, is Teddy gay, or was he a straight "gay for pay" hustler in his youth?

The scene appears at the beginning of Episode 1.8, the finale: 

Scene 1: During the 1980s, Young Teddy tells either a femme man or a woman to "just get through it, don't ask names.  Think of the money."  His companion is rather looking forward to it.

They enter a nondescript building.  An elderly, decadent man in a bathrobe approaches, calls Teddy a "tart," gropes him, then leers at his companion -- Daniel -- and leads him into the main room. 

It's what straight people think a gay party is like, men in suits looking decadent by candlelight, with shirtless waiters milling about. A leatherman and a person with long hair snort poppers.  

"He's 21," Teddy tells the elderly man, who doesn't believe it.

Cut to moaning, leering, and decadent looks.  Teddy goes down on the elderly man, then sits beside him to drink.  He sees Daniel being gang-banged, hand-on-mouth, looking terrified.  The decadent men beat off while watching.

"He's suffocating!" Teddy exclaims.  He tries to intervene, but the elderly man stops him.  The participants include Sir Henry Coulson and Sir Anthony Jones (the husband of Princess Margaret) -- very powerful -- so  keep to yourself.  Young Teddy watches in dismay as Daniel dies.

In the present, Teddy remembers and is depressed during Guy Fawkes night, with fireworks exploding over Big Ben. 

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Jesse Bradford: The gay and gay-subtext roles of yesteryear have vanished, but he still has a physique. And a cock.

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"Ghosts," Episode 3.10: A gay wedding, a gay performer, a vengeful Puritan, a naked Viking, and a lot of plot complications

 

In the British version of Ghosts (2019-23), the gay ghost is closeted, with a "disgraceful secret" that he never reveals to his housemates.  I heard that the American version (2021-25) was better at gay representation, so I watched Episode 3.10, "Isaac's Wedding"

The Premise: Sam (a woman) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) inherit a house filled with the ghosts of people who have died there or nearby, and for some reason can't move on to the afterlife.  Since she was dead for a few minutes after an accident, Sam can see and hear them, but Jay can't.

Nigel (John Hartman, right), a British soldier who died during the Revolutionary War, has been in a relationship with Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones, left), the Continental soldier who he killed (by accident)).  They are going to get married today, but Isaac is worried about his ongoing fantasy about Chris, the adult performer hired for his bachelor party (the humans told him that he was performing for an empty room).  

Isaac asks Sassapis (Roman Zaragosa), a Native American who died in the 16th century, about his attraction to the stripper.  Sassapis reassures him that it's just cold feet.

The DJ hired to play at the wedding arrives -- and to everyone's surprise, it's Chris (Deniz Akdeniz)!  He's gay, he hates the show Hamilton, and he has no sense of smell -- all points in his favor.  When he eats crab and has an allergic reaction, Isaac secretly wishes that he will die, so they can date -- but he survives.

Meanwhile Peter (Richie Moriarty), a 1980s scout leader who accidentally shot an arrow through his neck, has discovered that he can leave the house by poltergeisting family members, so he follows his descendants to a Caribbean vacation, and meets a female ghost from his time period.  They have a passionate affair, but then he starts to evaporate.  

Back at the house, the wedding begins, with Sassapis officiating.  As Nigel and Issac exchange vows, Peter returns from the Caribbean, finds that he is whole again, and interrupts with his shout of jubiliation.  He tells the story of his trip and the intensity of his love, and Isaac realizes that there's something missing in his relationship with Nigel.  He backs out at the last minute.  

Not noticing, lounge singer Alberta, who was poisoned during the Prohibition Era, starts singing "At Last" anyway.  Nigel runs off crying.

Later, Isaac's housemates agree with his decision.  He's 300 years old, and he's been out for only a few years, so he shouldn't rush into a relationship right away.  He needs time to grow.

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Matt Smith: Who doesn't want to see the penis of Prince Philip, Charles Manson, Christopher Isherwood, Superworm, and Dr. Who?

 

We've been watching the 2011 series of Doctor Who, the seemingly endless British sci-fi series that sends the last remaining Time Lord through time and space to save Earth, an alien planet, or the entire universe.  Again and again.  Oddly, when his world-saving takes him to modern day Britain, there are plenty of exteriors, but when it is a distant planet or the far future, all we see are endless corridors. 

Doctors regenerate every few years, getting new bodies and personalities.  Right now it's Matt Smith, an effervescent, jokey type, with an inner trauma that sometimes comes out.  After all, he saw the destruction of his people, and he's over 1,000 years old, so dozens of human companions have died, gotten lost, or left him to go on with their lives.

Matt Smith has appeared as the Doctor in dozens of projects outside the show itself: videos exploring odd corners of his universe, video games, a lot of four-episode miniseries, spin-offs starring former companions Sarah Jane and Amy Pond

The children's program Blue Peter. 

Comic Relief: Red Nose Day, An Adventure in Time and Space...I got tired of counting.  You have to be British to really understand his amazing popularity.

The Doctor would be enough for a career, but Matt has played a wide range of other characters, mostly based on real people:

Christopher Isherwood, the gay author of A Passage to India and Maurice, in Christopher and His Kind, a 2011 adaption of his memoirs. Left, the one without the biceps.

Rowing star Bert Bushnell in Bert & Dickie, 2012.  Neither was gay.

Prince Philip, the consort of Queen Elizabeth, in The Crown, 2016-7.

Robert Maplethorpe, the controversial gay artist, in Mapplethorpe: The Director's Cut , 2018  

Left, the one with the ring

Hippie cult leader Charles Manson in Charlie Say, 2018

Plus a variety of fictional characters. As far as I can tell, they're all heterosexual.  I guess he only takes gay roles if they're of historical significance.

A detective fighting witchcraft.

An evil clone with a nice bulge.

A zombie-fighting parson in the Regency era.

The case worker of a refugee family facing evil

An evil spirit in the psychedelic 60s

A tourist in Morocco for whom things go terribly wrong

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