Leslie Jordan, who is best known for playing Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace, has suddenly become one of the internet’s biggest stars.
In the last couple of weeks, the diminutive thespian — Jordan measures in at 4-foot-11-inches — has racked up 1.7 million followers, an impressive number that is still climbing daily.
“Oh, don’t you dare judge me,” he chided viewers during his rather blue breakfast segment. “Y’all are out there doing it. I can at least watch it. It’s better than CNN.” But, in 1982, when he arrived in Los Angeles, Hollywood’s longstanding code of silence regarding sexual orientation was still very much entrenched.
During one casting call, Jordan remembers being told to “butch it up”. As Jordan recalls it, “I had gay management and agents and I remember them saying, ‘Now this particular part you’re going in to read for, honey, keep your feet on the ground and your hands by your side and your voice in the lower register.’”
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