If it’s feeling a bit post-apocalyptic lately, here’s something that’ll at least make you grateful that the streets aren’t crawling with the actual undead: A new Walking Dead spinoff called World Beyond is coming soon to a TV screen near you.
The show stars Nico Tortorella (Younger), who posted his excitement to Twitter along with the recently released trailer:
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this week last year i landed in richmond virginia to begin this revolutionary chapter and introduction to the walking dead universe. the next week, july 30th, was my first day filming. it was also my birthday. andddd it was also my character felix’s birthday scene. woah. i love this life. no matter what. @twdworldbeyond premieres october 4th. like for real this time. @amc_tv
Tortorella posted a more succinct update to Twitter:
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— Nico Tortorella (@NicoTortorella) July 24, 2020
Per AMC’s description, Walking Dead fan’s can expect to dive into “the new mythology and the first generation raised in the apocalypse.”
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Donston
Nico’s year-long coming out parade was just too messy and irrevocably tarnished his image. He/they/them pimped out a same-sex relationship that lasted only a few months all on social media and to the press pretty much to get attention, interviews and “queer clout”. While he also just said a lot of dumb shit along the way: “I can’t be ‘gay’ because most of my friends are female” (a completely idiotic perspective that has nothing to do with sense of self, sexuality or the romantic, sexual, affection, emotional investment, relationship contentment spectrum). “Black and Latino guys can only really be ‘straight’ or ‘gay” (huh?). “I don’t believe anyone should identify as ‘gay’ (but it’s perfectly fine to embrace all these other identities, including “straight”).
He came off messy, ignorant, manipulative and narcissistic as hell. Too much of what he said had layers of homo inferiority and gay shaming. He was obsessed with talking how his orientation and sense of gender but seemed to lack any real tact and self-comfort and lack a real understanding of himself and other people. It just came off like he was constantly seeking attention and validation and looking to desperately fit into whatever sociopolitical sphere. I understand being a public figure and contending with different forms of fluidity and contractions and mental health struggles and not really knowing how it be “out” or what identities to embrace. But too much messy shit ended piled up. And he/they/them never really went back and fleshed out those old perspective. Yet, the press mostly glosses over it. So, until Nico confronts that problematic, messy stuff I don’t think I could watch anything with Nico in it. Not that we need another version of Walking Dead anyways.
Troysky
@Donston ….long response, but so damned true…. might as well add James Franco in there, too.
Vince
It’s cool and edgy to walk the line of sexuality. It actually helps your career because it keeps people interested. However, at the end of the day these contrarian sexual fluid types will never end up with a man at any time or anywhere.
LilMesican
You read my mind. I said something similar when he did RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race.
Donston, you and I could be friends!!!
Donston
Vince, I have had some fluidity and contradictions in my orientation. But I’m cool with being seen “gay”, and I’m in a very happy and committed same-sex marriage. So, that really wasn’t the point of that post.
UlfRaynor
If you think that that was messy, you should have seen the live pod caste he did with Shane Michael Singh who describes himself as a celibate/gay/ playboy and editor of Playboy magazine, imparting their homophobic belief that sexuality, like gender is a social construct not an innate, immutable characteristic and that peoples sexuality is determined largely in part by their environment and how they “choose” to self identify.
It’s pure insanity and extremely homophobic and anti-gay. especially considering neither man has any formal education in psychology or psychiatry.
This is the exact same train of thought used by practitioners of conversion/reparative therapy.
Yet , here’s Queerty toting this homophobe as some sort of pioneering icon in the LGBT community.
It’s sickening!
UlfRaynor
Donston, you did NOT have fluidic contradictions in your orientation, you experienced those things as a result of your gender attractions, your sexual orientation is immutable.
I’ve worked with enough reparative victims to recognize the confusion so many have over sexual identity vs gender attraction. Your sexuality is an innate characteristic, only your gender attractions are fluid and can change over time.
Donston
UlfRaynor, you’re also talking about something that belies what I’m trying to say. First, in my teens and first half of my twenties I had pretty straightforward attractions, arousals and desires. Things got more complicated. Whatever you want to call it, it is what it is. I understand the differences between arousal, attractions, sexual desires, sexual enjoyment, passions, etc. I also understand the development of or dissipation of paraphiliacs. But once again, it all is what it is.
Personally, I couldn’t care less how people identify or don’t identify or how people live their lives. I understand everyone has their own dimensions, struggles, journeys. I understand how specific and peculiar gender and sexuality and the romantic, sexual, affection, emotional, relationship spectrum is. I resent how Nico connected to “gay” and pimped out a brief same-sex affair all over social media and in the press for clout. I resent the underpinnings of homo inferiority and gay shaming in his words. And I resent how little Nico educated themselves when it comes to race, sexuality, orientation, gender and different people’s struggles before constantly going on these pretentious tirades. Yet, Nico tried to be some “spokesperson”. What I’m talking about is different from what you’re talking about.
Smith David
Dam it! He’s annoyingly handsome. I just can’t stay mad at him:)
ShiningSex
Handsome? ugly personality=ugly on the outside too.
He’s NOT all that. His personality is so blah, i can’t stand to even look at his ugly hipster look.
He also looks “small” down there in other pics (not that it’s important but he does).
Vince
Hardly a revolutionary chapter since the Walking Dead have explored it for a decade. More like cashing in on it for a younger audience. Like a WB version.
“It’s the most rewarding work I’ve ever done”. Yeah, because you have such a body of work. Lol Can this narcissistic contrarian be a bigger douche?
ShiningSex
He’s gay and is a total moron. Who cares about him?
He’s boring and his “explanations” are ignorant and confusing, people have left “the show”. BYE
darkanser
Without knowing who he is, without knowing ANYTHING he has said in the past, I can honestly say the first picture really triggered my furry man fetish MUCH more than how he normally looks, it seems, in the Walking Dead!!!
DomitoJo
Yes!! I would totally **** his hairy **** all the live long day! #AllOfItIsYou
lord.krath
Wow, so much shade and unforgiving disgust for this man. I’d like to see your resumes. I’d like to interview your friends and family. I’m sure most aren’t as saintly and actually as holier than thou as you make out. Gays are the most judgmental folk I know and thats including my mom. It can be fun reading people, but not as a serious matter.
Donston
I can’t speak for anyone else, but my posts are deadly serious. It’s not about “reading” anyone. Everyone makes mistakes. But you also need to own up to those mistakes. Nico never has. Nico spent a whole year saying a lot of dumb and ignorant shit concerning race, sexuality, orientation and gender. Them/they also said quite a few not-so-subtle homo inferiority pushing and gay shaming things. Nico as well used a few month old homo affair to constantly get attention from “queer media”, to “prove” whatever queerness and to gain clout. That whole stretch of time Nico was being unrelentingly and needlessly problematic. It’d be one thing if it were many years and Nico was incredibly young then. But Nico was grown as hell, and this was only like three years ago. I’m sorry, but too much silly shit went down for me to just put it in the past. While making this all about “gays are too judgmental” just makes you come off problematic as Nico and belittles the issues. This is from someone who likely contends with a lot of the same convolution and struggles Nico has. I get not knowing how to express yourself publicly, going through certain struggles and confusions and the trolls getting to you. But I just can’t stand for that much nonsense. Until Nico directly confronts this stuff I’m not gonna be cool with “gay media” promoting them/they.
Donston
Then you had the time, just a year ago, when Nico tried to publicly shame Ashton Kutcher. Nico shaded Kutcher for telling him to go home and sober up and telling him that he shouldn’t come to a professional environment high. You also had the time Nico tried to low-key out James Franco. (As if anyone still wants Franco’s creepy, hack-y, pretentious, abusing ass to be seen as part of the “queer community”). Nico spent a couple of years being an absolute media whore, using a brief same-sex affair to get constantly get “gay cred”, blaming a variety of others for them/they’s struggles and saying generally ignorant and sometimes hateful things. I understand coming out and being out is not easy for everyone. I understand mistakes being made. I understand contending with fluidity, contradictions, past traumas and mental health struggles. But a lot of people go through what Nico has gone through. At the end of the day, you have to own up to your mistakes, confront your issues and stop being so messy and problematic.
nm4047
is that show still being made, gave up after it seemed to just be the same story each season and nothing happening.
Chrisk
I liked his interview with Wendy Williams. Williams: so you date both men and women. Nico: I don’t really know what men and women really are but I date the whole spectrum.
Total bullshit artist.