Morgan Spector declares he’s creatively a ‘service top’ and asks, ‘Straight guys can’t bottom?’

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Morgan Spector continues to spark conversation with his cheeky takes on artistic collaboration.

The 44-year-old star, dubbed โ€œRailroad Daddyโ€ for his role in The Gilded Age, made waves at a Los Angeles Times Drama Talk roundtable last year when he described himself as creatively submissive.

When asked about offering suggestions to writers for his character George Russellโ€™s development, the stylish actor explained, โ€œI really am the kind of actor who likes to show up and just do what Iโ€™m told. Iโ€™m very much creatively kind of a bottom, so not really. I think thatโ€™s kind of what Iโ€™m in it for. โ€˜Please tell me what to do and just let me obey.'โ€

However, in a fresh chat with GQ Hype, he refined his position, suggesting heโ€™s more of a โ€œservice top.โ€

โ€œI like being able to use my intuition and my intelligence to plug into somebody elseโ€™s ideas, learn their language, learn their way of communicating, figure out what the thing is that theyโ€™re trying to make, and then deliver that,โ€ he shared.

Then, laughing, he added, โ€œI guess itโ€™s more of being a service top, creatively, than being a bottom.โ€

Morgan, who isnโ€™t queer and has been married to actress Rebecca Hall since 2015, faced some pushback for โ€œqueerbaitingโ€ with his suggestive comments. His response? โ€œStraight guys canโ€™t bottom?โ€

โ€œI mean, people can play with dominance and submission in heterosexual relationships,โ€ he pointed out.

โ€œWeโ€™re living in a moment now where weโ€™re exploding ideas of gender. We deconstruct, these things are not fixedโ€ฆ. Itโ€™s theater, baby. Weโ€™re all playing in the same sandbox in a certain way.โ€


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