Doug Savant is opening up about the offscreen challenges he faced during his time onMelrose Place.
he told his former costarsLaura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, andDaphne Zunigaon theirStill The Placepodcast.
“I knew it was exceptional, and I thought people would be interested.
Doug Savant.mikel roberts/Sygma via Getty
But she goes, ‘Well, no, it’s not a big deal.
You’re an actor, you’re just playing a character.’
And I said, ‘Oh, clearly she doesn’t get it.'”
Doug Savant in 2020.Amy Graves/Getty
He intuited before anyone else that therein might lie a problem.
Why wouldn’t you just say, ‘Well, it shouldn’t matter, but I’m heterosexual.’
I said ‘No.’
But Savant was notoriously never given a love scene his character never even kissed another man across six seasons.
But at the time, [Matt] was the only one.
So there was an enormous amount of interest."
How did Savant go about that?
Then when asked “‘What do you have in common with the character?’
And I thought that was morally reprehensible…
He is every man, he’s your neighbor.
He’s a regular guy who happens to be gay.”
The former show debuted two years after the latter.
