Kelsey Grammer sounded curt this morning when he brusquely told a BBC Today program interviewer that he still supports Donald Trump but, according to his interviewer, this curtness doesn’t tell the full story.

Grammer’s interviewer Justin Webb said the Frasier star was “perfectly happy” to go on talking about his support for the former POTUS, “the Paramount+ PR team, less so.”

Grammer has previously expressed support for Trump – a relatively rare position for a TV and movie star to take – and he also used his BBC interview to back Roseanne Barr, another self-confessed Trump supporter.

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    LMAO, I say it all the time when shitting on Disney virtue signaling, stopping a show to get up on a soapbox just makes the show worse and convinces no one of anything they don’t already believe, and making them a trope doesn’t really help either

    If you want to actually reduce bigotry, you normalize it… And apparently they succeeded, since the only time I remember thinking about it was going “oh wait, is he bi?” When they introduced that (I remember it being slightly ambiguous for a couple scenes)

    Ok, the show deserves some credit when you put it in this context… Looking back at what I remember from the show, they did it very well.

    Like at first, he’s stereotypical and super flamboyant, but they’re all caricatures anyways. Playing into the tropes probably made his orientation less threatening for someone a bit homophobic. They just let that sit for a while without any romance on his part

    Then I think brought up he had an ex gf after a season or two? Which is a nice curve ball to make people question their assumptions, and then they eased into it and made the plotline with the ridiculous sitcom love triangle, and they made it about that while having very little actual pda on screen…I remember a kiss or two, but it was pretty overshadowed by the awkward situation… An amazing way to desensitize someone (it feels weird because it’s awkward sitcom nonsense, so a good person a little weirded out by seeing guys kiss doesn’t feel called out, and the emotions get triggered and directed to an appropriate target)

    I binge sitcoms over a few days while I work or game, so I remember less as the seasons go on… It was good on the surface, I’m going to give it a rewatch looking deeper

    Thanks for sharing. My biggest passion is the way technology could shape us for the better, so I find this very cool