A SEXY SUPERHERO? I’D LYCRA THAT ROLE
YEARS & YEARS OLLY ON HIS DREAM ACTING JOB
OLLY ALEXANDER really does have the sex factor as he revealed his ambition to play an ‘erotic superhero’.
The Years & Years singer has, er, cape expectations of
donning tights and a mask following his acclaimed turn in the Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin.
‘There’s a lot of good stuff that gets made but good stuff that gets made with gay characters that I could possibly play? Not so much,’ he said. ‘For me to be interested in a role, it would have to be [someone] sexy with magic powers. I basically want to play some kind of erotic superhero.’ Golly Olly...
The Desire chart-topper also laughed off complaints that his New Year’s Eve performance on the BBC was ‘too sexy’.
He added: ‘If I’ve p***ed off some homophobes, I feel like I’ve done my job. I want to do the [LGBTQ+] community proud – I do have that in my head at all times and I do want to like, not f*** things up. So if I can try and push things forward at all, I will do that.’
Olly, 31, also said being so loudly and proudly queer has led to an uncomfortable amount of interest in intimate details of his personal life. ‘When I put a song out, I have no idea how it’s going to be taken – and sometimes I can be surprised,’ he told NME.
‘People commenting on how you have sex is quite surreal, I suppose, but I’ve made my peace with it now.’
Talking about his track Crave as an example, he went on:
‘I thought there was something empowering about going to this potentially really humiliating place and asking for someone to hurt you. I’m deliberately playing on the kink.’
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