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| Brandon Flynn & James Dean |
Brandon Flynn is a gay rebel with a cause.
The out star is quickly becoming the go-to actor producers call on when looking for talent to play queer Hollywood icons. After portraying Marlon Brando earlier this year in the Off-Broadway play Kowalski, Flynn has now been cast as James Dean in a new biopic of the late cinematic icon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While the internet had thrown out every young Hollywood actor’s name from Austin Butler to Timothée Chalamet to play Dean, writer-director Guy Guido said Flynn was the perfect choice.
“Brandon Flynn brings both the fire and vulnerability this role demands,” Guido told THR. “I couldn’t imagine anyone more perfect to explore and play out the complexities of James Dean.”
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