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Instinct star Alan Cumming was effusive in his praise of CBS for “having the courage” to put on its schedule a procedural crime drama in which his lead character is gay.
“I applaud everyone at CBS for having the courage to put that on, in the climate that might not be the best time to do it,” Cumming said at the show’s [Television Critics Association] winter press tour panel, describing today’s climate as one in which “the President is actively condoning, by his silence, violence and persecution against the LGBT community.”
“I think it’s the perfect time and needs to be done,” insisted Cumming, who is well known to CBS viewers from his years on The Good Wife, among other works. It’s “all that more important we should have a character with a healthy same-sex marriage,” the actor added.
Cumming got asked if the character being gay made him want to take the role. Cumming described him as a “confounding character” who has many different layers, is a fuddy-duddy professor, a dandy, a former CIA spy, “drives a motorbike,” and “he’s gay.”
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