In the artful bad seed drama, We Need to Talk About Kevin, actor Ezra Miller terrorizes his onscreen mom and the off-screen Miller represents a potential migraine headache to conservative America.
Pot-smoking (and vocally pro-legalization), drums-playing (in the band Sons of an Illustrious Father), pro-LGBT, he happily inhabits sexually unorthodox and queer roles (e.g. an adolescent chubby chaser in 2009’s City Island and gay in 2010’s Every Day). In fact, he even one-ups Tom Hardy’s famed acknowledgement of real-life, same-sex experience when asked.
I’ve had many, you know, ‘happy ending sleepovers’ in my early youth. My period of exploration—I think that’s essential. Anyone who hasn’t had a gay moment is probably trying to avoid some confrontation with a reality in their life.
Next up, Miller appears in The Perks of Being a Wallflower as Emma Watson’s gay older brother, Patrick. “Patrick has a boyfriend that he keeps a secret,” he reveals, “because the guy’s closeted and ashamed. He’s the high school quarterback. One of those.” [via]