Actor Maxwell Caulfield’s legacy just keeps getting richer. When the ridiculously handsome British actor starred in the 1982 cult musical Grease 2 as the love interest of Michelle Pfeiffer, he did more that just win her character’s heart by the end of the film. He also ignited a fire in the loins of a multitude of gay males of all ages, including a very young Andrew Rannells.
In a video for the It Gets Better series, Rannells, who stars in HBO’s zeitgeist-y comedy Girls and won a Tony Award nod for his work in Broadway’s clever The Book of Mormon, chats about his how his childhood passion for Caulfield helped him realize he’s gay.
“It was just a very basic childlike attraction to certain people,” Rannells recalls now.
‘The earliest memory I have of that was watching Grease 2 and being strangely drawn to Maxwell Caulfield. It was a realization that came very, very early for me and I would assume was also quickly understood by my parents at that time.”
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Watch Andrew’s video below and scroll down further to see Maxwell being beautiful and sensitive in Grease 2.
Donovan Atkinson
Same
Jeffrey Mark Pierce
me too!
Kyle Richard
Who doesn’t love Grease 2??
Matthew Farris
Me, too but where’s my Queerty post? If it were possible to turn someone gay, every man who saw ‘Grease 2’ would be.
Joe Payer
Can he help me
Kyle Richard
Charades.
Chris
Maxwell Caulfield has aged very nicely since his Grease II days, I might add.
heckles202
Never saw Grease 2 but immediately recognized him from the pilot of 90210 as the older guy Brenda briefly dates until she confesses her real age to him. He was so hot in that!
Chris Tan
I need to help Obama realize that he is gay!
eporter70
Kind of reminds me of this guy http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/241151
He’s also aged pretty well (52 now)
jwtraveler
@Chris Tan: Good luck with that.
jwtraveler
@Queerty: The story doesn’t say he “turned him” gay. It says he helped him “realize” he was gay. There’s a big difference.
Will Glitzern
I’m gay for both of them
Alex Kyle-Thundershield Simmons
:0me too
Ai-Quoc N. Heller
Nathaniel Burich
Anthony Tacca
Really? He needed help?
jag4313
My two childhood crushes were Maxwell Caulfield from Grease 2 and David Bowie from Labyrinth.
Mark Hesselgrave
I’ll be HIS girl for all seasons!
ryantbo
for me it was Christopher Atkins – Blue Lagoon and A Night in Heaven. Not to mention the Playgirl spread
Low Country Boy
Yes, Maxwell Caulfield was definitely in my spank bank as an adolescent.
Daggerman
….well, most boys at first actually fancy men until society knocks them into thinking they need to procreate, therefore become heterosexual..
jwtraveler
@Daggerman: Is “Daggerman” and alias for Jason smeds?
JustSayin
Didn’t Maxwell Caulfield help us ALL realize we were gay….. LOL
Jim Farris
This is my favorite of Maxwell Caulfield, from the “Red Shoes” book by the late, great Kenn Duncan.
Bob LaBlah
Based on the title I wonder when this kid washed his face in the morning did he look in the mirror? I mean really!