Rupert Penry-Jones says Flint's gay romance on Black Sails was cut back

Black Sails cut back on Flint's gay romance due to backlash, according to Rupert Penry-Jones http://t.co/UP9LVC2pxopic.twitter.com/Gr9R1WMPLT

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Rupert Penry-Jones says that he was thought to originally play a much larger role but because some big wigs at the network "freaked out" over his gay romance with Flint, they scaled back the story.

"I knew that it would be a big deal," he said. "Can you imagine… the lead character in a show about pirates - with a famous character like Flint, and you're going to basically say that he's gay - that's kind of massive!"

"I was certainly led to believe [Hamilton] was a more major character than he ended up being, so I think what happened was, they started seeing [the storyline] and what a major effect it was having and it freaked a few people out, like: 'No no no, we can have lesbian pirates but not gay ones!'"

"For a lot of guys, they just can't get their head around it," he said. "But then most of the guys that had cried out against it, by the end of [the storyline], they had come round again."

Well don't hold back, Rupert!

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i hope the show only gets gayer next year.