you have been warned

anyway. half man deals with a lot of fraught topics and a lot of morally dubious behavior from its characters, and the idea that relatively newer actors being thrust into the limelight from playing these roles want to create some kind of division from the character's behavior by feigning naivety to some of it is just completely unsurprising. i would be more surprised if these newer actors started seriously discussing the acting choices they made to portray the homoeroticism with their characters' pseudo-stepbrother.

actors have incentive to feign some degree of ignorance of the topics they are portraying to avoid difficult conversations and assocation with those topics. it’s usually a more pr friendly route over engaging in serious discussion/portraying yourself as some kind of expert in the topic. they can avoid a lot of expectation by just being the guy who picked up the script and read the lines

obligatory examples of the things i’ve seen people saying:

HALF MAN, (2026) Richard Gadd S01E03 "Episode 3"