Queer? Check! Muscular? Check! These hunks are perfect for the role!
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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!
