It has been announced that Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will play The Flash in Warner Bros.’ expanding slate of DC Comics-based superhero feature films, the studio announced Wednesday. With this casting, Miller, who identifies himself as “queer” during a 2012 interview with Out Magazine, becomes the first openly LGBT actor to play a major superhero in a feature film.
“I’m queer,” Miller informed Out in a 2012 interview. “I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. I am very much in love with no one in particular. I’ve been trying to figure out relationships, you know? I don’t know if it’s responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds because I don’t think we’re ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that’s what you’re supposed to be looking for. Then [when] we find what we think is love — even if it is love — we do not yet have the tools. I do feel that it’s possible to be at this age unintentionally hurtful, just by being irresponsible — which is fine. I’m super down with being irresponsible. I’m just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people. That’s where I’m at in the boyfriend/girlfriend/zefriend type of question.”
Miller is set to star in a stand-alone movie of The Flash in 2018. His film is not to be confused with The CW’s television show The Flash, which stars Grant Gustin and is set in a different fictional universe.
Miller’s version of The Flash will most likely appear in Justice League Part One in 2017 from director Zack Snyder, who is also set to direct 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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