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James Dean Biopic About Star’s Purported Gay Romance Finds Its Lead (Exclusive)
The planned biopic focusing on James Dean‘s personal experience has landed its head actor.
Brandon Flynn, known for True Detective and 13 Reasons Why, has been cast as the behind legendary actor in the feature Willie and Jimmy Dean, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Writer-director Guy Guido’s film is currently in development and is based on William Bast’s 2006 memoir, Surviving James Dean.
In his book, Bast described meeting Dean at the UCLA theater program at the age of 19 and wrote that the two men became roommates, close friends and eventually lovers. Bast claimed they kept their fling secret to avoid hurting Dean’s career while the rising star had relationships with female stars, with Bast remaining hopeful that he and Dean would soon live together again. Five years after meeting Bast, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, with two of his signature films, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, released posthumously.
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Brandon Flynn is redefining what it means to be an out and haughty actor in Hollywood, one role at a time.
Since Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why catapulted him to superstardom, the 31-year-old has built a career on unconventional, unexpected, and often adorable parts. Occasionally, that means playing a humorous but misguided queer man trying to impress his boyfriend’s family, like in Max’s recent horror comedy, The Parenting.
Other times, the work calls for summoning silver-screen greats, such as this year’s Kowalski, an Off-Broadway play that required him to portray a new Marlon Brando.
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But if productive alongside Brian Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Edie Falco, and earning the best reviews of his career in the identical calendar year wasn’t enough, Flynn also found time to get married. (According to Vogue, he and writer husband Jordan Tannahill’s collapse wedding was “avant garde,” “intimate and fun,” and featured custom looks by Ludovic de Saint Sernin.)
Acting has been a guiding pale in Flynn’s animation sinc
Joe Westmoreland Takes Brandon Flynn on a Joyride Through the Annals of Same-sex attracted History
Photo courtesy of Joe Westmoreland.
When Joe Westmoreland’sTramps Like Us was first released in 2001, it slipped through the cracks. “My publisher had a heart attack the week after it came out,” the creator recalls. “I had to do all the promotion myself.” Like so many queer stories, the novel vanished under the weight of more conventional and commercial narratives. But two decades later, it’s been republished with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and it comes as no surprise to those who interpret it the first time around that it’s just as urgent—and edifying—today. A blend of memoir and fiction, Tramps Like Us captures a moment of queer adventure and libertinism before HIV was widely understood, told through Westmoreland’s time fleeing his abusive household as he hitchhiked through the country in search of independence, belonging, and sex. “This book felt like such a lifeline to a history that I feel a part of,” raved the 13 Reasons Why actor Brandon Flynn when he got on a call with the author last month. “They were having fun, figuring themselves out, and diving into
Provincetown, Massachusetts—aka gay Disney World with better drag and lobster rolls—has long been a queer rite of passage. But thanks to Brandon Flynn’s latest Instagram decrease, it just got a petite more blush-worthy.
The 13 Reasons Why star—who has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ visibility both on and offscreen—served up three generous scoops of shirtless Americana realness, seasoned with beachside dripping hair and a floppy-eared mutt that’s honestly now more notable than some influencers.
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Flynn lounges on a vintage bedspread like a man who knows his angles and his demographic. Shirtless, arms up, a daisy pillow strategically placed to say, “I’m approachable, but yes, I also function out.” Bonus points for seeable tattoos that whisper “I document poetry at night.”
Cut to Flynn, glistening and sandy on a sun-drenched beach, giving “queer boy-next-door just rinsed off in the Atlantic and is ready to emotionally destroy you.”
And in the grand tradition of gay men knowing their brand, he closes with a cozy snap curled up with his dog. If you didn’t already want to date him, now you at leas