http://www.accesshollywood.com/cybill-shep...t_video_1083410

She looks better with the longer hair too.

Yet he took two gay roles in independent movies soon afterwards. That always cracks me up.

LOL. OK, so maybe he just wanted to stay the hell away from General Hacksville.

LOL. OK, so maybe he just wanted to stay the hell away from General Hacksville.

No, you were right. LOL! His agent or manager or whomever definitely said something at one point about being typecast, which is why he wouldn't come back to GH. (Yeah, like Guza and Co. really had this big Lucas story they were dying to tell!) But then came "Eating Out", and there was another one too... can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. When the second one came out, I was like "Really, Ryan? You don't want to be typecast - or your management team was just looking for a higher commission?" LOL!

Thanks for clearing that up. I felt unsure about raising the issue but I always get cynical where Hollywood is concerned and wonder if there is a PR/spin aspect attached to certain press releases.

I haven't read The Advocate article but I'll take your word on how it was stated. CF strikes me as very natural and direct without making a song-and-dance about coming out.

I still wonder about soaps, though. Daytime isn't as subtle as Primetime or cable and they do often typecast actors. Like Ryan Carnes, who turned down a return to GH as Lucas, maybe because he didn't necessarily want to be typecast as "the gay character" after his turn on Desperate Housewives.

The Advocate-

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid76945.asp

Let’s clear the air on the interview that ran recently with Diva magazine, in which the cover read “Clementine Ford Comes Out.” In the piece, it sort of intimated you came out and that you had an affair with your costar of The L Word, Kate Moennig. Then you did an interview with TV Guide magazine where you attempted to clarify. It sort of has given you some pushback from fans. Can you tell us what happened?

It’s funny. I was having kind of a rough day. My best friend sent me a text saying, “You have to see this.” So I went online to see this link and I read the comments and I go, “They hate me!” When I did the TV Guide interview I was angry because there is the whole perception now that I came out and I went back in. And what upset me was, I felt that because I did not "come out" in that interview, I felt it was unfair to fans that bought the magazine expecting to get a tearful story that says “I’m gay.” I thought it was misleading, and now because I was upset by that cover, I am apparently back in the closet and people hate me.

But can you understand how some people may have been confused when in a magazine piece you are quoted like that?

There are people who get it, and get what my original meaning was. Just as I was talking about story lines being a nonissue on The L Word; it should just be these people are gay and it’s part of life. I think with that article, and what came across as ambiguity, was actually my attempt at making it a nonissue. Look, I am gay, and I just wanted there not to be this big emphasis on it.

LOL. OK, so maybe he just wanted to stay the hell away from General Hacksville.

exactly, lol. He went to the GH fan Club Weekend last year too.