SPOILER ALERT: True Blood has had a lot death so far in its 7th and final season, so its not surprising that the residents of Bon Temp would need to unwindulax. This week we got a break from the bloodshed. Jessica’s boyfriend James (Nathan Parsons) managed to let loose with Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis). Now Parsons is opening up about his gay love scene with Lafayette. This is the same scene that was rumored be the reason Luke Grimes left the series.
Nathan Parsons recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about James’s affair with Lafayette played by Nelsan Ellis:
“We just had to be really careful about how we went about it. We didn’t want it to be uncomfortable to watch or over the top. It has to be something that is seemingly organic and loving, instead of just having sex for the sake of having sex. I think that was the difficult line to walk. It comes out of nowhere and we have to do it tastefully, and we all have to be comfortable with what’s happening. But Howard [Deutch], the director, was great about it. Nelsan and I just went along for the ride, and I think it turned out really well.”
Parsons went on to stress the importance of the romance:
“This story is important and should be told and needs to be shared. It’s a story that’s being told all over the place, and TV doesn’t pay enough attention to it. The "Do I love this guy or love this girl?" and "Is this right or is this wrong?" becomes more important than the act itself, and that I think was really well done by the writer [Craig Chester] and Howard and Nelsan and myself.”
It is the same-sex storyline that was rumored to drive Luke Grimes to leave the series. After it was announced that James was being recast TV Line reported on an unnamed source, who claimed:
“He initially joined the show because he wanted to work with [his Forever co-star] Deborah Ann Woll. But when he started reading the scripts for Season 7, he was disappointed to learn that they were going in a completely different direction with James.”
However, Grimes’ publicist, Craig Schneider gave BuzzFeed an alternative explanation for his departure:
“Luke always had an out clause as a means of pursuing other opportunities which arose in the form of features beginning with The Shangri-La Suite, followed by Fifty Shades of Grey, and most recently, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper with Bradley Cooper.”
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