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With 1 of 2026’s biggest container agency breakouts nether his belt, Michael Johnston has immoderate ideas for his adjacent role.
The Obsession star, who is openly gay, precocious explained now that he gets to “choose what I want to do,” he’d for illustration to play a “really meaningful” and “really intentional queer role” successful an upcoming project, which he mightiness conscionable constitute himself.
“My full point has been that what nan character’s sexuality is doesn’t matter to me,” he noted connected nan I’ve Never Said This Before podcast. “It’s conscionable different portion of who they are, and that’s really I am. It’s conscionable a portion of who I am.”
Johnston continued, “But that being said, increasing up successful nan Bible Belt tin beryllium problematic for a cheery boy. And you know, that was a full benignant of experience, and truthful I decidedly americium looking guardant to playing a really intentional queer role, communicative that’s really meaningful.”
Following his 2015-’17 tally arsenic Corey Bryant connected MTV’s Teen Wolf, Johnston recalled he “still wasn’t comfortable pinch my sexuality astatine nan time, but I had nary thought nan effect that conscionable being myself and playing this characteristic authentically would have. I sewage thousands of messages from group thanking maine and telling maine really they consciousness amended astir themselves. They were capable to travel retired to their parents.
“The effect that I made conscionable from doing thing that frightened maine and being brave… and not only that was really cool, but besides benignant of helped maine study really to judge myself, truthful that’s thing I’m really looking guardant to,” added Johnston. “I don’t know, possibly I’ll constitute it myself.”
Johnston made his breakout capacity arsenic nan toxically hopeless romanticist Bear successful Curry Barker’s Obsession, which has go Focus Features’ highest grossing title ever, surpassing $300M globally past month.
