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218 ‘NEW YORK CITY IS FULL OF THE LIKES OF TITUS’ Interview Tituss Burgess Text Martijn Tulp ‘We don’t draw attention to the “types” of straight people’ 020
Interview / Tituss Burgess On Friday April 15th, Netix premiered the second season of their hit show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. We got the chance to talk to actor Tituss Burgess, who plays Titus Andromedon on the show, about wine, pride and gay stereotypes. First of all; how has the sale of your own brand of Pinot Noir been going? ‘It’s going great! People are responding really, really well, so I’m quite pleased. There’s a company called A Fine Wine Agency, and they had already launched another line of rosé for a social media star. So we thought that would be a perfect pairing and so we went with them. They did a lot of the legwork, but it was my idea.’ What kind of response have you been getting from viewers? ‘It’s been great! I’ve had people chase me halfway down the street, just to tell me how much they love the show, and how much joy they nd in watching all of us together. I should knock on wood, but I haven’t gotten a bad response yet.’ Some people called your character Titus Andromedon ‘a gay stereotype’, which show writer Tina Fey has defended. How do you feel about that? ‘I don’t think there’s anything stereotypical about Titus. I don’t know what the LGBT community is like in the Netherlands and Belgium, but the likes of Titus are everywhere over here in New York City. So I’m not sure what they want? We don’t draw attention to straight people, and their “types” – like us, they’re quite varied! I think it is because when we’re presented with people we don’t normally see, we tend to pay closer attention to them, without giving them a lot of breathing room. We don’t allow more people like them to come in, without compartmentalizing them.’ Is that something that concerns you at all, how the gay community sees your character and whether you’re representing them ‘correctly’? ‘I really don’t care how people see the character. I approach the character as humanly as possible, and I say what my bosses tell me to say, as long as they’re putting me in real life situations. If people are unable to look past his sexuality, or his more amboyant qualities, and pay attention to the actual storylines, they probably don’t get the show as a whole. As a result I don’t offer up much attention to their response.’ In the new season of the show Titus gets a love interest. Without spoiling too much, can you tell us what that will be like for him? ‘He falls in love with this construction worker, who we see in season one. It’s an unlikely coupling. It brings out some extraordinary and unusual emotional traits in Titus, and forces him to reexamine how he treats people. It’s really lovely to watch him explore some different parts of his person, rather than his normal self-serving, self-centered ways.’ You have a background in musical theater, you’re also a singer/songwriter, and of course you’re on Netix. Do you prefer one over the other? And do you think it’s difficult to shift from one medium to another? ‘I think perhaps it might be a question of how long you’ve been out of practice with one or the other. Right now, I’m very much enjoying doing television. I don’t know if I would say I prefer it, but at the moment I certainly respond to it on a more immediate level than I do to theater.’ 218 021
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