AfterElton.com does not out actors, celebrities or anyone else. But nor do we “in” them or help their management to do the same.
I can’t say for certain that is exactly what is going on with British actor Luke Evans, soon to be seen in the The Three Musketeers, The Immortals, and later next year The Hobbit. But that certainly seems to be the case.
We most recently wrote about Evans when he appeared at Comic-Con to promote The Immortals. Shortly thereafter we received an email from a reader pointing us to this blog which noted that back in September 2002, while starring in Boy George‘s Taboo, Evans gave The Advocate an interview which noted that not only was Luke out, but that he didn’t have much use for the closet.
Said Evans at the time:
Well it was something I’d spoken to a lot of people about, including my boyfriend at the time – we’ve broken up now – but at the time when I just got Taboo, I knew that even though my part was a straight character, everybody knew me as a gay man and, in my life in London, I never tried to hide it. I knew I was going to have to do interviews with gay magazines, so I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to have to be open’. It’s who I am. And if people don’t like it, then I don’t want their jobs. I’ve never been a very good liar, which is another thing…
With Evans’ career clearly on the ascendancy, it was looking like we might have our first high profile movie star out from the start of his career — and in action movies to boot.
However, the same blogpost that pointed us to The Advocate interview also noted that last year a report had Evans dating a woman named Holly Goodchild who told a Welsh outlet at the premiere of Tamara Drewe that she and Evans were an item. Said Goodchild, “Luke’s lovely – we’re really old friends and it just sort of happened. We are nowhere near engaged but things are really good.”
So Evans was bisexual? Many people have a sexuality that is fluid or realize their sexuality might not be just what it was when they were younger. Still, all and good. An out bisexual actor is every bit as great as a gay one.
But since Luke himself never actually mentioned he was dating Goodchild, I did more research and couldn’t find anything else. Indeed, his Wikipedia page listed him as gay and cited The Advocate interview.