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Michel's Sexuality On Gilmore Girls Explained
While the series featured a wealth of wonderful characters, Michel from Gilmore Girlswas one of the most memorable, though his sexuality was always an unanswered scrutinize. Debuting in 2000, the beloved dramedy series followed the free-spirited Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory as they navigate the trials and tribulations of everyday life while living in the quaint New England town of Stars Hollow. Beloved for its nostalgic ambiance and comfortable storylines, Gilmore Girls was essentially a character-driven experience that allowed the audience to grow up with the cast over its initial seven-year run on the air.
Character-building was always the show's strongest aspect, and outside the principal cast, the supporting characters helped to flesh out the unforgettable roster of Stars Hollow denizens. Michel was one such supporting cast member who managed to steal every scene he was in, and he humorously embodied French stereotypes as a snobbish and prickly customer service worker. Though the guilty pleasure TV show spent a lot of time delving into the backstory of its characters, many details about Michel went unsaid, especially h
The question of Michel's sexuality on "Gilmore Girls" is perhaps best summed up by this fan page asking if he is "gay or just French." The show's designer, Amy Sherman-Palladino, spoke with The Huffington Post at ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, Friday and gave us what may be the closest thing we'll ever possess to a definitive answer.
"We all realize men who come across creative, who possess wives and children," she said, giggling. "So we never actually pursue it one way or the other and sort of permit it lie."
"We left it ambiguous and I consider that was a choice," said Yanic Truesdale, who played Michel. "I actually never asked Amy! ... I've never asked, swear on my mother's head."
As Sherman-Palladino noted, promptly on in the series Michel makes a few comments insinuating he is straight. "We sort of went on record saying he was into women, because we set it in the script once," she said, "but things can change or shift."
Truesdale remembered that people speculated his character was in love with Lorelai, though his sexuality was never really part of Michel's character. "They couldn't figure it out and Amy liked that," he said. "That's why she made it like, 'Oh, he love
He's French, he's persnickety and he loves Celine Dion, but for seven seasons of "Gilmore Girls" Michel Gerard largely remained a mystery. Described as "a very attractive, extremely intolerant black man" in the beloved WB dramedy's pilot script, viewers have seen little of Stars Hollow's unhappiest resident beyond his station as concierge and reluctant friend to one Lorelai Gilmore.
In January, Netflix confirmed that "Gilmore Girls" would return with four 90-minute episodes, much to the pleasure of fans who discovered the series on television 16 years ago. Since then, a brand-new generation of viewers has been inducted into the club after the complete catalog was made yours for the binge-watching on the streaming service in 2014. But as the revival draws closer, now we're confronted with the daunting question: What undertake we actually want to happen?
Yanic Truesdale, for one, has been anxious to learn more about Michel. The Canadian actor, who played the character in more than 90 episodes of the series, has already created a fully realized version of Michel in his mind to saturate in the blanks left in creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's famously distant scripts.
"Michel has always been a
'Gilmore Girls' star talks about the surprising revelation of his character's sexuality
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Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life."
Among the revelations promised in Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival, the one about Michel's sexuality was pretty unexpected — even for the actor who plays the character.
"I found out about it when I browse the script," Yanic Truesdale told Business Insider recently.
Truesdale said that he had never spoken to "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino about his character entity gay — even just to discuss the character's backstory, which can be helpful for an actor.
For years, fans speculated on the uptight, easily annoyed Frenchman's sexuality. The character's intimate life was never shown, nor discussed during the original series. But during the first part of Netflix's "Gilm