Hearth up the comfortable blue and crimson lights, as a result of white Calvin Klein-clad heartthrob Jeremy Allen White is ready to star and govt produce a bisexual romance sequence for Netflix primarily based on the André Aciman novel Enigma Variations. The Bear star — a part of the Rat Boy Summer season craze of 2024 — is parleying his ascendance as a sex-symbol right into a extra intensely and progressively sexual function. White will star as Paul, the novel’s protagonist, within the restricted sequence that recounts the loves and lusts of Paul’s life throughout his worldly travels. And it is precisely the kind of bisexual illustration we’d like proper now.
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The official synopsis of Aciman’s novel is as follows:
‘Enigma Variations’ charts the lifetime of a person named Paul, whose loves stay as consuming and as covetous all through his maturity as they have been in his adolescence. Whether or not the setting is southern Italy, the place, as a boy, he has a crush on his dad and mom’ cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, the place his enduring ardour for a lady he’ll meet many times over time is punctuated by nameless encounters with males – whether or not he is on a tennis court docket in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are un-graspable, transient, and endlessly underwritten by uncooked need. Forward of each step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are all the time prepared to put their traps. But the dream of affection lingers. We could not all the time know what we wish. We could stay enigmas to ourselves and to others. However ultimately, we uncover who we have all the time recognized we have been.
The Rise of Bisexual Illustration
LGBTQ+ illustration in mainstream movies and TV has been fairly marginal at greatest over the past century, however has fortunately picked up within the final 20 or so years, as extra queer themes, characters, and tales have gotten a voice in media of all types. Bisexual people are just a little bit more durable to return by as leads within the media given sure prejudices held towards them, and have suffered bi-erasure within the tradition at massive. Nonetheless, over time, we’ve seen them in varied roles on TV, with many stars popping out as bisexual in latest days, too. Aciman is doing his half to carry bisexual leads into the mainstream, as his earlier novel-turned-film, Name Me By Your Identify, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, was a crucial hit that additionally options bisexual most important characters.
Amanda Kate Shuman is connected to function author, govt producer, and showrunner on Enigma Variations. Her earlier writing work contains The Blacklist and The Wheel of Time. White, thus far, has two Emmys and three Golden Globes for his function as Carmy on FX’s The Bear. Enigma Variations is being developed at Netflix, and no launch date has been introduced. Within the meantime, be at liberty to re-watch Name Me By Your Identify or the primary season of The Bear and dream just a little dream about your favourite rodent boyfriend making out along with his many, many paramours.