“If you want to come out, thats awesome. Well totally support that. And then he went away, thought about it, and came back and said, Im going to make this statement. I remember saying to Betsy Beers, This is our proudest day here. T.R. got to come out, and I got to say to him that it wouldnt affect his character because he was concerned that he was going to come out and George would suddenly be gay. I was like, We are not going to do that. The idea that a gay actor cant play a straight man is insulting.”
