Marvel fans still don’t know exactly who Joe Locke is playing. Agatha All Along—Officially, his character’s name is “Teen,” but speculation has narrowed it down a lot more than that— Heart Stopper The breakout is very confident about what he brings to the table. WandaVision In a new interview, he spoke about playing a queer character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it means to him both personally and professionally.
Rock told Variety: Agatha All Along Because the character he plays is so complex and multifaceted, he isn’t too worried about being typecast as a gay character. “The show never hides his homosexuality, but it’s not a defining characteristic of his character,” he told the industry. “It’s just one aspect of who he is as a person.”
Elsewhere in the article, Agatha Harkness herself, Kathryn Hahn, recalls that when she began working with Locke, she was immediately struck by his sense of self: “He corrected me early on, because I said, ‘These witches and this beautiful wizard,'” she recalled to Variety. “And he said, ‘No, we’re all “It says ‘Witch.’ That really made an impression on me.”
The Rock said that appearing in the Marvel series was “the biggest Pinch He also said that he was not a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. Agatha All Along The trailer teased that his role as a “teen” (or whatever role he ends up playing) would be a “big gay stereotype,” and he explained why that didn’t sit well with him.
“It really pissed me off because I thought, ‘How can you ask for authentic casting and then be upset when a camp character shows up?’ … I fully understand that Marvel fans can be much more unkind than other fans. Heart Stopper “The fandom,” he said, “is going to be a lot of people who hate everything about this character and everything I’ve done with this character, and I’m just going to have to accept that.”
And if Agatha All Along As rumored, the film will also feature musical numbers, which will particularly benefit Locke’s theatrical talents – he starred as Tobias Wragg earlier this year. Stranger Things‘ Gaten Matarazzo in the Broadway revival Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Agatha All Alongalso stars Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ann, Patti LuPone, Debra Jo Rupp, Emma Caulfield Ford and Aubrey Plaza, and is produced by Jac Schafer. (Black Widow, WandaVision)The series will consist of nine episodes, two at a time, and will premiere on Disney+ on September 18th.
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