Sterling K. Brown

Things have fallen apart.

I'm gay.

I'm finally coming out of the closet and trying to live my truth.

And sometimes what I need out of life right now is not exactly what he needs from me.

So it's fun.

I often play the guy that has to hold it together.

It's fun to be the dude that messes with the dude who has to hold it together.

Absolutely.

That was a lot of fun.

But I think what I found out for me, like I have a lot of...

gay people in my family and friends and people who had chosen for a period of time to live in the closet and then ultimately come out of the closet.

There is no real fulfillment in life if you're not allowed to live your truth.

And I think what I was most curious about or most interested about is like, okay, how will I show up in this space?

Because I've had other characters before that have been offered me who were LGBTQ, and I didn't know if I would be able to do it.

So I passed.

What I refused to do is half-ass something.

The community...

that I represent needs to be able to see something on screen that they should be proud of and feels fully inhabited and not sort of commented on.

Do you know what I'm saying?

And so like, it took me probably till I was 47, whenever I wound up doing the role to be like, the humanity is what's most important to me.