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The Buzz : Tim Kring Talks About Zach's Straightening

Posted by HeroesFan on 2006/12/12 13:40:00 (724 reads)
The Buzz

Tim Kring is really taking a beating over at afterleton in response to the news that Zach's character is being "straightened" out so to speak. So much so that he emailed the website with a response.

I personally don't think people should be upset with Kring as he is the one who created the character in the first place. I'm thinking that there are two possibilities as to the root of this decision.

1. Thomas Dekker who plays Zach on Heroes is behind the push to "un-gay" his character. Dekker has played a gay male character in the past and could be worried about being type-cast.

2. The suits at the network are behind the push for whatever reasons (who can understand network exec thinking anyway?)

I honestly doubt this decision was made at the level of the series creators, but I could be wrong.



Quote:


Ever since our article about the ?de-gaying? of Zach on NBC?s Heroes went up this morning I?ve been receiving all sorts of emails. While I expected to get a lot of email about it, I certainly didn?t expect to hear from the creator of the hit show himself, but I did. Tim Kring emailed me earlier today. With his permission, I?m posting what he had to say.

"I am very sorry this has caused concern for the readers of your website. It was certainly not our intention to confuse the issue of Zach?s character being gay. We have too much respect for our audience to do that intentionally. However, it has simply become too complicated behind the scenes to push this issue further with this particular character. We apologize for misleading the audience, and wish that we could have handled things better on our end. But making a TV show is often a very imprecise business. As you stated, Heroes is a big, sprawling drama and there is no reason to believe that a gay character will not be represented on our show in the future. It is my hope than we do, we do it with honesty and dignity. That will certainly be our attempt."


Source: afterelton




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Posted: 2006/12/28 15:18  Updated: 2006/12/28 15:18
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 Re: Tim Kring Talks About Zach
So will TPTB use the idea that his sexual orientation was all in his head, so when The Haitian cleaned him out, then he'll get a heterosexual "reset"? Just a thought.

Oh, looks like there's a topic about that idea already... Been away awhile.