‘Teen Wolf’ Star Thanks Show for Helping him Accept His Sexuality
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Actor Tyler Posey who stars in the upcoming Teen Wolf movie says his starring role on the TV show helped him understand and accept his sexuality.
Posey reprises his breakout role as Scott McCall in the Paramount+ movie continuation of the MTV series, which also sees the return of fellow co-stars Crystal Reed, Holland Roden, Shelley Hennig, JR Bourne, Orny Adams, and Colton Haynes.
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In an interview with the Gay Times this week Posey said that the original series “played a part” in him coming to terms with his queerness and sexual fluidity, which he went public with in 2021.
“For me, it was easier to not be ashamed about what I was going through. I was just instilled with this idea of acceptance for who I am. I owe that to the show, but also just the way that I’ve grown up and who I am and who I want to inspire people to be; to just be yourselves with no shame. I think that all played a part in that.”
“Apart from it being inclusive,” Posey explains that Teen Wolf “didn’t shove the subject down everyone’s throat. It was just natural and normal.
“It was like what everyday life is like. You’re gay, you’re straight, whatever. These topics weren’t like, ‘Here’s gay! Here’s straight!’ It was all super normal. I think that’s what people really appreciated because we’re all normal. There’s been weird stigmas put in the air for hundreds and thousands of years and we were sort of breaking that stigma of, ‘This is just how we are. This is everyday life. This is how people are and how they interact. We spotlighted it by taking the spotlight off, if that makes any sense. It was just normal and, for me, that’s what I loved about it.”
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Teen Wolf: The Movie reunites the series’ original characters for the first time in seven years after a “terrifying evil” emerges in Beacon Hills.
As per the official synopsis from Paramount+, “The wolves are howling once again, calling for the return of banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes and every other shapeshifter in the night. But only a werewolf like Scott McCall, no longer a teenager yet still an alpha, can both gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy they’ve ever faced.”
Watch the trailer below.
Teen Wolf: The Movie begins streaming January 26 on Paramount+.
