Queer? Check! Muscular? Check! These hunks are perfect for the role!
After ripping bodices playing Lord Anthony in Bridgerton and starring as Matt Bomer's lover in the gay historical thriller Fellow Travelers, out actor Jonathan Bailey is itching to star in a queer movie of epic proportions.
In a recent interview, Bailey confessed that he's dying to be in a film about the ancient Greek army made up of gay lovers. "I'm obsessed with the Sacred Band of Thebes, an army of 300 gay lovers in [ancient] Greece. They partnered in pairs, this gay army, and they overthrew a Spartan army… I want to do that as a comedy," Bailey told GQ while promoting Fellow Travelers.
Army of the Dead director Zack Snyder wrote this very movie as a sequel to the hit film 300, but Warner Bros. passed on it because the war movie they were expecting turned into a gay love story. "I was writing this thing about Alexander the Great, and it just turned into a movie about the relationship between Hephaestion and Alexander," Snyder said on The Fourth Wall, The Playlist's podcast. "It turned into a love story. So it really didn't fit in as the third movie."
Snyder's dreams of the movie may have been dashed, but Bailey is keeping hope alive and even has a brilliant idea of how to cast the film. "Just get all the queer actors together," he said. We. Are. Here. For. It. We're already dreaming of the muscle-bound, glistening gay actors playing lovers sent off to war!
Who knows what actors Snyder would have cast, but here are our super hunky nominations!
