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So we had a lot of penises.”įuller and Green, plus stars Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, Yetide Badaki, Orlando Jones, Bruce Langley, and Crispin Glover, joined us on stage to discuss the show at a “For Your Consideration Event” presented by Starz at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center. The only qualification was we should be equal opportunity nudists with the show. “They told us very early on that we could have nudity, and yet they were clear in not needing nudity if we didn’t it. “We had to do the book justice,” Fuller recently told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. That includes both female and male scenes. The series, which Fuller and Michael Green adapted from Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, doesn’t shy away from anything – including ultraviolence and bold nudity.
“ American Gods” executive producer Bryan Fuller has a slogan idea for the network behind his new show: “Starz Loves Cockz.” Go for it, folks.LAST WEEK’S PODCAST: Bryan Cranston on Why He Refuses to Accept an Acting Emmy For ‘Sneaky Pete’ - IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast After all, co-developer Michael Green told Geek & Sundry: “Starz said up front they encouraged male nudity” in order to keep the nudity ratio more gender-equitable. And if so, we might even be able to look forward to more such scenes in the show. I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be as hot as the reviewers described without becoming exploitative. “I’m excited for people to see the Salim-Jinn story,” he said in a recent interview with Showbiz 411, “and the beauty of that sex scene, which was not a small feat – for two gay, Muslim characters to have a beautiful, sophistical, sexual experience.” He then described the vision behind that scene: to “visually give you an idea of what it’s like to take a god inside you” and offer “a wonderful metaphor for a religious experience.” I don’t think anything like it has ever occurred on TV.” He also said that, from a character perspective, “The Jinn comes into Salim’s life to say, ‘It’s OK to be who you are.’ Now, more than ever, that story is incredibly powerful.”Ĭo-creator Bryan Fuller also described the scene in reassuring terms. Speaking to Out, Kraish said, “The sex scene is so intense and intimate. The scene takes place when the Jinn, played by Mousa Kraish ( Munich, Superbad), picks up a salesman named Salim, who’s played by Omid Abtahi ( The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2). However, comments from both the actors and the show’s creators, as well as friends who’ve seen the show, have me relatively assured that this could actually be a really cool embrace of the fact that queer men have just as much awesome, meaningful sex as the rest of us – and, yes, some of those queer men are Muslim or Middle Eastern. Still, I never want to see an already marginalized sexuality served up as some sort of shock-value titillation for a predominantly straight audience. While we’re dealing with the same root cause of homophobia, we’re often looking at different symptoms, and therefore different potential pitfalls. As a queer women, the promise of an explicit, pornographic same-sex scene can make me nervous, but I also recognize that the media’s attitude toward woman-on-woman scenes (Make it sexy, but in an exploitative way for the hetero male gaze!) is quite different from its attitude toward man-on-man scenes (Hide it forever!).