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‘The Avengers’ Star Cobie Smulders Reacts to Gay Sulu Character
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When Outfest Los Angeles kicked off July 7, the Orlando nightclub massacre and police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were top of mind for many inside downtown’s OrpheumTheatre. Sundance Film Festival director and Outfest Achievement Award honoree John Cooper, actor Wilson Cruz (who missing a relative, Brenda McCool, in the Orlando attack) and Outfest executive director Christopher Racster called for more projects featuring casts and storylines from LGBT communities as adequately as people of color.
“Our stories adjust the world,” proclaimed Cruz.
Opening night occurred the same morning John Cho had revealed in an interview with Australia’s Herald Sun that his character, Sulu, as the first openly gay personality in a sci-fi studio franchise. It’s a move that was met with applause from those in attendance at Thursday’s event. The Avengers‘ CobieSmulders (who stars in CleaDuVall’s directorial debut, The Intervention) called it “wonderful and fantastic, [but] I long for the day when it becomes a normal thing and not newswort
When ABC announced it was adapting Greg Rucka’s cult-favorite detective series Stumptown for TV, our main question was: Will Cobie Smulders’ Dex Parios be bisexual person, like she was the comic books? The first trailer was unclear, but at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Smulders confirmed that her Dex is, in fact, queer. So I was a go on exiting the warm weighted blanket of binge-able streaming TV to, once again, and for the first time in a long time, link myself to a network drama’s freshman season.
The weirdest thing happened to me when I was watching the first episode: I stopped caring about the commercials, and whether or not Dex was going to hook up with another woman. The pilot is compelling and hilarious and smart and action-packed, and while it certainly gets mired in basic network TV pilot exposition at times, Smulders is so charismatic as my all-time favorite dirtbag confidential investigator, I just genuinely enjoyed watching her story unfold on-screen.
Let’s get this out of the way: Dex Parios is not Jessica Jones, and anyone who suggests she is should manage themselves with a healthy dose of staying off Twitter immediately
Cobie Smulders
Biography
Jacoba Francisca Maria “Cobie” Smulders is a Canadian actress and model. She is best established for her starring roles as Robin Scherbatsky on the television comedy series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Cobie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Dutch father and an English mother. As a girl, Cobie had set her sights on becoming a doctor or a marine biologist. In fact, it wasn’t until high school that Cobie started to explore acting after appearing in several school productions. As a teenager, Cobie caught the eye of a modeling agency, which led to several years of world travel to places such as France, Japan, Italy, Greece, and Germany. Yet even as Cobie’s modeling career was on the rise, she still managed to attend university, graduating from high school in 2000 with honors.
Once out of high school, Cobie continued modeling internationally until the opportunity arose to audition for film and television. It was not prolonged before Cobie’s natural ability as an actress impressed casting directors, landing her guest spots on television series such as Extraordinary Unit 2 (2001) and
Cobie Smulders Is the Grungy, Bisexual P.I. That TV Has Been Waiting For
The Row jacket, $2,190, at Bergdorf Goodman. Photo: Ryan Pfluger
“Oh god — what was that?” gasps Cobie Smulders, her icy navy eyes widening beneath the brim of a Crayola-blue baseball cap. While the Stumptown star and I walk through Temescal Canyon in Pacific Palisades, minding our own business, our path is obstructed by one of the most frightening bugs either of us has ever seen. At least, we reflect it’s a bug. “It’s like a cross between a mouse and a grasshopper!” she exclaims. “That thing is not normal. It looks like an alien.” The creature is the size of a tarantula, with six fleshy pink legs, a shiny torso covered in brown racing stripes, and a bulbous head the size of a marble. Smulders, who wanted to be a marine biologist before a role on How I Met Your Mother kickstarted her acting career, appears more excited than scared. “I’m going to throw something at it,” she adds, much to my chagrin, crouching down and lobbing a stick in its direction.
Before Smulders is able to rouse the beast, a gal in heavy-duty hiking gear, trailed by a mother and two children, starts walk