Cw show with gay black male character

After 'Tom Swift' debuted at the beginning of Pride Month, series star Tian Richards is reflecting on the pressure of playing network TV's first gay Black lead character. The introduction is fittingly bold for the first Black queer male lead on network television. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

NBC News Logo. Did you play basketball? Max Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto. Sections U. Follow NBC News. As an executive producer who is both Black and openly gay, Johnson said he wanted to create a show that not only felt authentic to his own experiences but also felt universal.

The CW is developing a 'Nancy Drew' spinoff centered on iconic detective Tom Swift, but there's a twist: the character is now Black and gay. Did you rap? IE 11 is not supported. Once he landed the role in January , Richards immersed himself in books about aerospace and artificial intelligence and visited MIT and space museums in Houston and Washington, D.

Johnson said it was important for the creative team to not tell a typical coming-out story. Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile. But after his father, Barton Christopher B. Duncan , mysteriously disappears on a landmark trip to Saturn, Tom begins a quest to unravel the truth at all costs and finds himself fighting to outsmart an Illuminati-scale cabal hellbent on stopping him.

Tom should definitely do that. To bring that vision to life, the creators knew they needed a charismatic actor for the lead role. Fans of the CW’s Nancy Drew first saw Tian Richards as Tom Swift in the season four episode, “The Celestial Visitor,” in which Tom recruits Nancy to help him find a long-hidden meteorite.

The intrepid, ingenious inventor Tom Swift — whose eponymous book series debuted more than a century ago — has been reimagined as a Black gay billionaire in a new sci-fi mystery drama that. Latest Stories U. By Max Gao. Max Gao Max Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto.

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