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‘The Fosters’ Finale Advances Gay Teen Romance, Cast Teases Season 3: ‘Next Evolution of Jonnor’ (Video)
TV | By Matt Donnelly on March 23, 2015 @ 9:48 pm
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“It took a very long time for them to be
comfortable and for us to be comfortable doing this,” ABC Family star
Hayden Byerly tells TheWrap
The second season of ABC
Family’s “The Fosters” concluded Monday evening with buzz to spare,
thanks to a recent same-sex kiss between two thirteen-year-old
characters that sparked a social media debate.
TheWrap caught up
with the team at the center of the controversy, actors Hayden Byerly and
Gavin MacIntosh, along with producers Brad Bredeweg and Peter Paige at
Saturday’s GLAAD Media Awards.
“It took a very long time for them
to be comfortable and for us to be comfortable doing this, and
comfortable with ourselves and our own sexuality before trying to
experiment with someone else’s,” said Byerly.
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The actors
said the hate speech that the storyline sparked on social media was
difficult to process, but the outpouring of support was comforting.
“The majority has really been positive, we’ve only gotten a little bit of flack,” said MacIntosh.
Paige,
a former star of the groundbreaking Showtime drama “Queer as Folk,” was
also surprised by the support around the plot. “In hindsight, you look
back at it and it was 99 percent overwhelmingly positive,” said Paige.
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The season finale also advanced the romance between the two actors, according to Bredeweg and Paige.
“There’s a big one coming… the next evolution of ‘Jonnor,'” Paige said, using the couple’s mashup nickname for Jude and Connor.
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