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Lee Daniels: I Came Out as Same-sex attracted “Because I Loathed My Dad”
Lee Daniels' life could be its own film. In a brand-new interview with Out magazine, the 53-year-old director recalls painful memories of his childhood, drug violence and why he decided to appear out as gay.
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During their one-year marriage in 1988, the former sitcom star alleged she was physically attacked — and even raped — by her then-husband, boxing champion Mike Tyson. “He shakes, he pushes, he swings,” she told Barbara Walters in an interview while they were still married. (Tyson later admitted to hitting Givens during a 2009 talk […]
"When I came out it was because I loathed my dad so much — I couldn't understand how you could, with an extension cord, thrash a 45-pound kid just because he's aware of his femininity," he said. The Precious director told the magazine his father, William, dumped him into a trash can after he caught him wearing his mother's red elevated heels.
"For me it really created a world where I understood Precious, where you learn the power of the imagination," he said of his connection with his fath
Out gay director and Philly native Lee Daniels’ latest drama, “The Deliverance,” available Aug. 30 on Netflix, is a compelling thriller about demonic possession. The production opens with quotes about forgiveness and deliverance, but it really is about belief. However, Ebony (Andra Day) just cannot accept all that happens to her and her family. The motion picture is inspired by true events experienced by Latoya Ammons in Gary, Indiana starting in 2011.
Ebony has just moved to a new house in Pittsburgh — her third home in a year — with her three kids, Andre (Anthony B. Jenkins), Shante (Demi Singleton), and Nate (Caleb McLaughlin) as well as her feisty mother Alberta (Glenn Close), who is battling cancer. The house is not in great shape, and neither is Ebony. Her past includes incarceration and addiction issues as successfully as abuse. Now broke, and with an estranged husband who wants custody of their kids, she is barely managing. And while the flies swarming close the basement door are annoying, so too is Alberta’s criticism about how Ebony raises her children. Adding to her troubles are the surprise visits from Cynthia (Mo’Nique), from the Department of Child Services, to review on the welfare of he
Lee Daniels Talks About Entity Beaten Up, Discovering He Was Gay
When Lee Daniels was 8 years elderly, his dad threw him in a trash can.
The director of Precious and Lee Daniels’ The Butler was growing up in Philadelphia, the son of a cop, when his father saw him trying out his mother’s elevated heels. “I walked down the stairs with sky-high heels on, and he put me in the trash can,” Daniels recalled. “I think that’s where Precious came from, because I remember the stench. I remember the gloomy, the cold, my mother trying to fight, and then me, thinking that I was Aladdin on a carpet escaping. And I think that’s why I so related to Precious. But that was just one of many times. And I possess no hate in my heart for my father at all. I consider that he didn’t comprehend [Daniels being gay]. He completely didn’t understand and he knew that it was hard enough existence a black man, and thought that if he scared it out of me, in hindsight, I think he thought that if he scared it out of me, that I wouldn’t be queer , because he just couldn’t imagine what my existence would be.”
By contrast, Daniels’ grandmother did understand.
'Empire' creator Lee Daniels said he's been struggling to form a gay superhero movie for years but 'maybe they'll give it to a white guy'
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- In an interview with Insider, Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels told Insider that he has been trying to make a gay superhero show for "quite a while."
- Daniels said: "I've talked about it with some people. Maybe some ivory filmmaker will be able to undertake it. Maybe they'll give it to a white guy."
- There have been no gay characters in superhero movies as of yet, but the MCU revealed Valkyrie to be bisexual, and will reportedly feature a gay couple in "The Eternals."
- Daniels told Insider that he isn't deterred by knockbacks: "That's the journey that I've had as a gay Black filmmaker. So, I will get it done, but in my own way and in my possess time."
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