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At long last, Waylon Smithers Jr. is finding love onThe Simpsons.
“Smithers finds true love with a famous fashion designer, but will his new relationship destroy Springfield?” the episode description teases.
“So often, gay romances are a subplot or alluded to or shown in some kind of montage or as a punchline,” Johnny recently toldThe New York Post. “And what I think I was really excited about, with this episode, we get to see — without spoiling too much — the beginning, middle and who knows how it ends of a gay relationship, of really getting into the nitty-gritty of how gay people date, how they meet, what it’s like.”
“That was really special to me to get to highlight characters who are not punchlines, who are fully formed,” he added.
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Garber, who has been married to artist Rainer Andreesen since 2015, said it’s “crucially important that these stories are acknowledged.”
“I haven’t played a lot of gay characters, but every time I do it, it brings back certain feelings I had as a young actor where I couldn’t be gay,” Garber, 72, told the publication, adding that taking on the role was “a reminder of how much things have changed, and also how I’ve evolved.”
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The Simpsonsairs Sundays (8 p.m. ET) on Fox.
source: people.com
