American gods hot gay scene
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 undertake this ... Only a madman would write this.’”
The British author was referring to a scene from the upcoming episode “Head Complete of Snow.” In what might be one of the most explicit male lover sex scenes ever shown on television, Salim (Omid Abtahi), a Muslim human 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 Verdant and Bryan Fuller took extreme protect 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
Behold, It’s Time for Us to Talk About American Gods’ Milestone Episode
Last night’s American Gods covered a lot of ground: starry-eyed lessons in Slavic mythos, irate leprechauns, low-key bank robberies, your own personal Jesus, how to make snow happen, and what happens when your wife may not be quite dead. But what we’ll likely long retain about “The Secret of Snow” is that it features what is to date the most explicit gay sex scene in television history. And it’s beautiful.
Spoilers for American Gods Episode 3 ahead.
Before we obtain to That Scene, what else was on hand? I’ve now seen “The Secret of Snow” three times and apart from individual stand-out scenes fond of Shadow defeating Czernobog in their second go at chess, Shadow’s eerily lovely, dreamlike encounter with the fair Zorja Polunochnaya on the the roof, the glorious Cloris Leachman schooling Ian McShane, and the absolutely dazzling opening sequence with Anubis leading a dead woman from Queens to ascend to the afterlife, this isn’t my favorite episode.
It’s more about the strength of individual scenes and set pieces than a
Thethirdepisode of “ American Gods” is causing quite a stir, more than a week before its May 14 debut.
Based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, the Starz series will feature what’s been described as “the hottest and most pornographic gay sex scene” ever seen on mainstream television. The scene will take place between Salim (played by Omid Abtahi), a young Muslim dude living in Modern York, and a taxi driver (Mousa Kraish) who is actually a jinn, or a spiritual messenger found in ancient Islamic and Arabic folklore, in disguise.
Kraish talked about the “supernaturally hot” scene in an interview with Out magazine. He said the scene will be a cultural milestone for Middle Eastern LGBTQ representation. “Now, more than ever, that story is incredibly powerful. The sex scene is so intense and intimate,” he said. “I don’t think anything like it has ever occurred on TV.”
The star, who has appeared in “Superbad” and “The Fast and the Furious,” dedicated to going fully nude for the scene and, as such, got to weigh in on the final slice of the episode. “I was appreciate, ‘Awesome!’” he quipped. “I got penis approval.”
At a push event for the show last month, “American Gods” executive produce
Why Starz Was the Flawless Home for American Gods’ Groundbreaking Gay Sex Scene
American Gods, Starz’s divine adaptation of the 2001 novel by Neil Gaiman, has been pushing boundaries since its first episode, which featured bodies being torn to shreds and a fertility goddess who consumes lovers with her vagina. But even by the show’s already-elevated standards, Sunday’s third episode, “Head Occupied of Snow,” was one that viewers will not soon forget. In an interlude taken directly from the book, a lonely Omani salesman, Salim (Omid Abtahi), meets a Unused York cab driver who also happens to be a Jinn (Mousa Kraish), a fiery-eyed mythological figure from Middle Eastern and Islamic folklore. The two displaced souls bond over their shared displacement and memories of home, tentatively touching hands in the taxi, and then they head back to Salim’s hotel room to hold some of the hottest sex ever seen on television. (Quite literally, since one of them ejaculates like a flamethrower.)
It would have been a plain matter to cut the scene from the exhibit, since the book’s many interludes, while fascinating, are not essential to its plot. Instead, American Gods went all in, with a four-minut
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