Jun 17

Was ABC Surprised By 'Noah Galvin Vulture Article?'

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The original “The Real O’Neals” pilot ended with his girlfriend and family (waving rainbow flags) in response to Noah’s character, Age 16 “coming out” to his family in high school. Dan Savage sat down the cast and explained that pilot ending would not air out of respect for members of the different ‘coming out’ experiences faced by the LGBTQ Community. The cast acknowledged the stories Savage told of the many teenagers tell their parentsthey are kicked out of the family home for simply stating who they love.

On May 12th, Noah Galvin stopped by “AOL BUILD.” The theatre actor responded to interview questions with eloquence that felt unscripted, unfiltered. Listening to the this New York born-and-raised child star discuss television and Hollywood from “his perspective” was refreshing. That night, his progressive TV Show was renewed for Season 2.

On June 9th, the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy broke the Internet. Currently employed in a/his breakthrough TV role, Galvin issued an apology. Orlando happened (is still happening, hope won’t always be happening). Yet, June 15th brought new developments in the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “sources with knowledge of the events say ABC was blindsided by the interview.” Multiple media outlets report similar stories suggesting “The Real O’Neals” would be punished by their network for the completely unexpected rant their leading-star-on-the-loose gave New York Magazine’s Vulture.

Undeniably, the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy provoked ABC publicly disassociating themselves with the statements, star and series. Was ABC “blindsided”? I thought “Blindspot” was on NBC.

A few things “Noah Galvin” had to say back in May:

“How close are you and your TV family?”

 I live in the backyard of Jay Ferguson. I live in the guest house of my dad on the show in an adorable little one-bedroom guest house in his backyard. We’re very very close.

The Cali Closet Bit

“Yeah, yeah.. there’s a lack of creativity [laughs] I am just downing Los Angeles right now but I think there is a lack of creativity in, you know, not only in the casting world in Los Angeles but just in general. In Los Angeles, there’s a weird closet-ed-ness that I’ve experienced in Los Angeles. Even like people who have like guested on our show. I had this weird experience where like this person who was on our show was like very blatantly flirting with me and asked me to ‘come out’, or ask me to like go out [at night].

I just turned to him–and I was like ‘Are you gay?’

He was like ‘you know. I don’t. I’m like go with the flow or whatever.’

‘What is that?’ It was very odd. I don’t know, but I think there like a weird level of closet-ed-ness in Los Angeles that just doesn’t exist in New York.”

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“You know, I think the only way our show is going to be successful is if it looked and sounded like pretty much any old ABC sitcom.. with this, you know, subversive twist of my character being the narrator and being openly [gay at Age 16] so I think that in in some way as small somewhat revolutionary but again it looks like an ABC sitcom and it sounds like an ABC sitcom.” I think I made it pretty clear in my tests that I was gay.

“In what way?”

I think the first question I think they were surprised the first question I asked in my test. I sat down and I was like ‘how how flamboyant is this kid’ you know and they were like ‘interesting…we haven’t been asked that yet’ because I  think a lot of people read the breakdown or whatever and these saw that he was gay so they go in and they’re like ‘oh, well, I’m just going to play him as stereotypical gay.’

I have talked about this before I think it’s an important thing that a gay kid play this character somebody who really understands the coming out experience you know not that mean can you have had like we don’t have crazy similarities and are coming out experiences or even like as people but you know on a base level being gay and having gone through those things in my home life going to inform the story and inform the character.

I think a lot of times on TV … characters do fall into the stereotypical traps you know as wonderful and as much as I love Eric Stonestreet as an actor, he is playing a pretty ridiculous stereotype …

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This week’s episode of “Tomorrow with Joshua Topolsky” contains “an (allegedly) amazing discussion between Josh and associate editor at Vulture E. Alex Jung. It’s (reportedly) all about representation in media – or the lack thereof.” E. Alex Jung is the writer behind the Vulture interview/article. Listen, it’s interesting.

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