Deadline has revealed actors Nico Tortorella and Juan Pablo Di Pace will star as a couple in the upcoming feature film The Mattachine Family.
Tortorella is best known for their appearances in Younger and The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Di Pace has appeared in Fuller House and Mamma Mia!
Deadline says “While the pair are very much in love, they find, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, that they have different ideas about what it means to make a family.”
Related: Nico Tortorella post nude pics to show off new, full body-length tattoo
The movie will be the debut feature from video and commercial director Andy Vallentine, based on a script by his husband, Danny Vallentine. Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire has also signed on for a major role, along with Emmy nominee Carl Clemons-Hopkins.
On Instagram, Tortorella said, “This is the most important project I’ve been a part of to date. can’t wait to share this with y’all.”
Di Pace also posted, saying, “Beyond excited to be a part of this beautiful film. An important piece of cinema coming your way!”
Di Pace, who heralds originally from Argentina, came out as gay in 2019.
Related: ‘Fuller House’ star Juan Pablo Di Pace just came out as gay
Tortorella identifies as gender-fluid and sexually-fluid. They are married to Bethany C Meyers. The couple revealed earlier this week that they are trying to become parents but have experienced problems conceiving.
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Mattachine Family director Andy Vallentine also recently revealed that kids and families are something at the forefront of his mind. He and his husband revealed a couple of months ago that they are due to become parents in January.
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jayceecook
Tortorella will have had more onscreen same-sex relationships/experiences/emotional attachments/romantic attractions/commitments/whatever-else-D’s-BS-spectrum-crap-I-missed than in real life. They are exhausting.
Donston
Nice to see you’re semi tuned in. But don’t align me with Nico.
jayceecook
@Donston Nowhere did I do that. I just didn’t have my copy of your thesis of comments on hand.
bsg1967
Tortorella is a gaybaiting schmuck
Donston
Nico is an example of publicly mishandling “coming out”, traumas, mental health struggles, insecurities, fluidity, contradictions, trying to understand your place in the gender, sexual, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum. They have said quite a few insecure, gay-shame-y, sometimes problematic things, things that the media has never called out. They’ve been caught up in forever reminding people how not “straight” they are and using that for their career, finances, attention and validation, despite being in a hetero marriage, never indulging anything substantial beyond hetero commitment and being very “male presenting”. I’m pretty sure Nico is in the “queer” spectrum and has indulged a decent amount of non-hetero behaviors (why is everything about sex with so many of y’all?). So, it’s not “baiting”. But they are leeching. I just hope more of these Hollywood folks learn from their missteps and messiness.
Heywood Jablowme
Nico can get pregnant easily, they should go f**k themself!
Kangol2
This comment made me laugh out loud.
This movie doesn’t sound interesting to me at all but I would love to see more opportunities for Carl Clemons-Hopkins. They were one of the highlights of Jean Smart’s great recent series Hacks.
SDR94103
“Tortorella identifies as gender-fluid and sexually-fluid.”
HYSTERICAL
barryaksarben
How so? What I see here in the comments is all the trolls coming out to slam a gender fluid person. Same old shit form all the same straight trolls who are ALWAYS here pretending they are gay men fed up with every single other gay person. No one can come put publicly to these jackasses. NOT one coming out story has met with any approval from these FAKE gay men. If one of them is gay they are as miserable as they could possibly be. The straight guys are here so much they cant possibly have a life. I want their “coming out” stories. Being gay men who are so much better than all these successful people who come out. Here is your chance to dazzle us with how “woke” and amazing you have handled your life changes. Lets hear them. We know you are NOT gay so make it up. Like your GOD trump just start lying and just keep it up – oh wait you are already doing that arent you. WHat are your pronouns ?
Donston
Barry, can you please stop referring to everyone who posts here that doesn’t agree with you as “straight”? Do you not see how that is just as problematic as the comment SDR94103 made? You have a severe issue when it comes to self-awareness. Guess what, there are many people all over the queer spectrum who are a-holes or trolls or who simply don’t agree with you on everything. Referring to everyone who makes comments you don’t agree with as “straight” is a cop-out and makes you come off like an insecure a-hole, despite you criticizing others for being that.
Anyways, there are many reasons to criticize Nico. They’ve indulged a lot of narcissism, messiness and leeching throughout the years and has been problematic on occasion. But respect people’s struggles, identities and their journeys. It’s really not that hard to do.
UlfRaynor
Nico is more than problematic Donston, this is a man who stated in an interview that he doesn’t like kissing men, that it makes him feel uncomfortable and in a pod cast with the so called gay editor of Playboy magazine, agreed with said celibate gay editor that sexual orientation is a social construct not an immutable characteristic, and implied, much like yourself, that exclusively same sex attracted men (as well as opposite attracted heterosexual men) are nothing more than misogynistic transphobic bigots.
So why not practice a little of what you preach?
Donston
Nico has said a shit ton of cringe-y or just way incorrect stuff: claiming that white guys have no sense of gender or sexuality (if you truly believe that then why hype up your “queerness” in the first place, why constantly use “gay culture” for attention and relevance, why did you say that you can only have a legit commitment with a cis female? Also, why is it just white guys? And who said you can speak for all white guys?). Claiming that only “white gays” were criticizing them when many different types of people have been critical of Nico, not just “white gays”. Talking about how bottoming doesn’t mean that they’re not a “real man” (why would someone who prattles on about being non-binary and being anti misogyny indulge such obvious masculine insecurities?). Claiming that they’re uncomfortable with indulging same-sexual affections on camera. Publicizing and exploiting two very brief “relationships” with a dude and a trans woman as some way to “prove” their queerness to the world. Doing a poetry session where they only invited women and (according to people who attended) indulged some rather off-putting and manic behaviors.
I kinda get Nico for the most part. It’s apparent that they’ve experienced some trauma. It’s apparent that they’ve contended with a decent degree of mental health and substance abuse struggles, fluidity, contradictions, misandry, insecurities, trying to understand where they are in the gender, sexual, affection, emotional investment, commitment spectrum. But they’ve definitely said some silly and sometimes harmful shit. While the media refuses to call any of it out because Nico is queer-presenting.
Nico still has a lot of growing up to do and still has to confront some demons and insecurities. And they have to realize that everyone has their own dimensions and journeys and they need to stop broad-stroking sexuality, gender and different demos. I do wish them well despite all the messiness.
Donston
Also, you don’t seem to have bothered trying to understand the gist of my posts. I have always preached that everyone has their own thing going on, not that sexuality and gender is a choice or purely a “social construct”. I have always thought the latter viewpoint was basic, toxic and incorrect. Many people are truly, inherently heterosexual or homosexual. And that’s that. Many people fit wherever they fit within the bi/pan scale. And that is also that. However, many folks experience degrees of fluidity, contradictions and/or coming and going paraphiliacs. While for many folks “sexuality” is more about preferences than inherent orientation, or it’s more about where they are in the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotional investment, commitment spectrum. Then you have trauma, psychology, sociology, ego, which each affects everyone in different ways. And whatever identities you embrace or present is ultimately a choice.
I have preached individualism and understanding people beyond presented identities and behaviors. That’s quite a bit different, more respectful and more nuanced than the frequently toxic, contrary, broad-stroking, insecure things Nico has said throughout the years. Learn the differences.
ShiningSex
@barryaksarben
Nico is full of shit. No one is making fun of sexually fluid, but he’s gone back and forth on his sexuality and that’s the joke. He’s annoying AF too.
Ken A.
I knew or sensed DiPace was gay when watching Fuller house. Movie sounds interesting. I like Tortorella, loved him in the Following, didn’t see him in the other shows, so over Zombie shows anyway. “Gaybaiting,” get a life. In his IG video, finding it hard to get pregnant. It could be her, it could be him but isn’t it the fun in trying.
ShiningSex
Nico is hideous. He doesn’t know what he wants. He says he bi, he says he’s blah blah blah blah.
Shows off his wife on MTV Cribs, but says he is part of our community. Sounds very closeted and annoying. I wish he’d go away.