Gay scene american gods
Fantasy series “American Gods” will include the most explicit sex scene on TV, according to multiple reports.
The series, an adaptation of the novel by Neil Gaiman, follows old gods such as Love and Evil as they arrange to battle new gods like Technology. Salim (Omid Abtahi), who has recently moved to New York City, crosses path with the Jinn (Mousa Kraish), a mythological Middle Eastern god posing as a taxi driver. The pair meet in a taxi and go back to a hotel room to have sex.
“The Jinn comes into Salim’s life to say, ‘It’s OK to be who you are.’ Now more than ever that story is incredibly powerful. The sex scene is so intense and intimate. I don’t assess anything like it has ever occurred on TV,” Kraish told Out.
In an interview with Vice, queer showrunner Bryan Fuller says the sex scene between the two characters was one of his favorite moments to translate from page to screen.
“We talked at length about our favorite aspects of the novel very early on, and we both cited Salim and the Jinn as one of the most memorable, touching intimate chapters of the novel. And so, we took great care and were very deliberate in how we brought that to life so it reflected the romance of th
BEVERLY HILLS — “I remember 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 perform this ... Only a madman would write this.’”
The British author was referring to a scene from the upcoming episode “Head Entire of Snow.” In what might be one of the most explicit queer sex scenes ever shown on television, Salim (Omid Abtahi), a Muslim gentleman 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 Lush and Bryan Fuller took extreme nurture 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 beautiful 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 adapt 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 display, we were evident that our sexual content was always going to be uncuttable in the sense that it would be connected to character and story and be presented as artfully as anything else. If there is a sex scene in a display or film 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 show, 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 essence being devo
A Gay Perspective on the Jinn and Salim Love Scene
I agree that it’s huge to see a tender, hot, and complex gay passion 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 dominance 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 small 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