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A Gay Perspective on the Jinn and Salim Cherish Scene
I agree that it’s huge to see a tender, hot, and complex gay love scene in the current climate. And Kudos to Bryan Fuller for wanting to depict a real gay sex scene!
On another note, on your debate of tender love scene vs influence play, why can’t it be both? My friends and I talk about sex a lot, and both topics come up frequently. With gay men, especially “masculine” gay men, sex can include a lot of notions of power- the act of penetration is aggressive, figuring out who is penetrated, flipping someone over on their stomach, forcing someone down to their knees or as the jinn does, having them a stop blowing you, etc.
The scene between Salim and the jinn also struck me as a very tender very loving scene, shown in the petite moments- Salim touching his shoulder in the cab, grabbing his hand in the elevator, the stare into his eyes before they kiss, the tender way the jinn moved Salim back on the bed. It also definitely involved power- I would compare it in a cert
Bryan Fuller On American Gods' Groundbreaking Gay Sex Scene
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the third episode of American Gods, which premiered Sunday on Starz.
While a lot went down for Shadow and Mr. Wednesday in the third episode of Starz's American Gods, the one scene that's sure to hold tongues wagging is a graphic and groundbreaking sex scene between a mortal and a deity. And this time we're not talking about Bilquis and her ravenous sexual appetite.
In adapting Neil Gaiman's loaded fantasy novel, co-creators Bryan Fuller and Michael Verdant have transformed standalone chapters into world-building vignettes. The "Coming to America" sections have served as cold-open introductions of characters appreciate a blood-thirsty Norse god and the African trickster Mr. Nancy. This week, halfway through "Head Occupied of Snow," a "Somewhere in America" vignette introduced the story of Salim and the Jinn, which features a newly immigrated and stressed salesman from Oman who experiences a life-changing encounter with a taxi-driving ifrit (essentially, genie).
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We'd briefly seen the Jinn (Mousa Kraish) in an earlier episode, his flaming eyes spotted by Shadow as the Mi
BEVERLY HILLS — “I recall when they sent me the script describing somebody being filled by an ejaculation of flames,’” Neil Gaiman recalled late Wednesday night during a panel for the Starz series American Gods. “I’m going, ‘This is beautifully written in the script. Obviously they won't actually carry out this ... Only a madman would write this.’”
The British author was referring to a scene from the upcoming episode “Head Full of Snow.” In what might be one of the most explicit gay sex scenes ever shown on television, Salim (Omid Abtahi), a Muslim man from Oman, and the Jinn (Mousa Kraish), a fiery-eyed genie disguised as a taxi driver, make love in a New York hotel room. It begins with full-frontal male nudity, and then the men are shown thrusting in and out of each other, first on a bed and then in a faraway desert — and yes, there is an “ejaculation of flames.”
Showrunners Michael Leafy and Bryan Fuller took extreme care with this strange yet tender moment, as they adapted Gaiman’s seemingly unadaptable 2001 novel American Gods, which is about feuding deities who live among men.
“We wanted to make sure that it was undeniably charming for even those who were uncomfortable
American Gods: The Jinn Scene Explained
Warning: SPOILERS ahead for episode three of American Gods
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When Bryan Fuller and Michael Green began to convert American Gods for the small-screen, they had a rule in place in regards to the novel's often graphic depictions of sexuality: If there was going to be nudity, then everyone would be getting naked! Green expanded upon this rule, which Fuller jokingly referred to as "Starz loves cock":
"Equal opportunity’ was the actual term. They knew that there was going to be sexual content in this demonstrate , we were clear that our sexual content was always going to be uncuttable in the instinct that it would be related to character and story and be presented as artfully as anything else. If there is a sex scene in a show or movie that if you eliminated it, someone can still appreciate the emotional journeys of the characters, then it probably wasn’t done right – or at least that’s how we went about it."
This will be of no surprise to anyone who has been watching the display, in which Shadow (Ricky Whittle) unfortunately found the photographic evidence of his late wife’s affair with his best friend, and the audience saw a poor soul being devo
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