Rob James-Collier Would Like to Play A Gay Man Again

‘Downton Abbey’ hottie Rob James-Collier says he had to ask the show’s creator if his character Thomas Barrow was still gay, having taken a back seat in the previous season.
The footman had an affair with the Duke of Crowborough (Charlie Cox) and tried it on with Turkish envoy Kemal Pamuk (Theo James) in the period drama’s first season, but his homosexuality was not mentioned in the show’s second run.
James-Collier 35, asked creator Julian Fellowes about the issue, and promised that Thomas’s sexuality will be explored in Season 3, reports ‘The Sun’.
“The gay thing comes back in this series,” James-Collier said. “He stopped being gay in series two!
“I had to ring upstairs and ask Julian, ‘Am I still gay?’ I said, ‘Right, OK’.
“Seriously, in series two the drama focused on the First World War and the huge impact it had on people back home in Britain in dealing with the dead and wounded. The gay thing was largely ignored.
“But Thomas has a beautiful storyline which evolves right through the new series and there is a massive pay-off.”
Collier hinted his character will embark on a “forbidden” affair, possibly with new footman Jimmy.
“I hope the audience will identify with why Thomas is the way he is – he has this secret which he can’t tell anyone about because homosexuality was illegal.”
Season 3, which is set in the early 1920s will be screened in the UK in autumn.

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