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Actress Amber Tamblyn Discusses Playing a Lesbian on a Primetime Series

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Actress Amber Tamblyn of “Two And A Half Men”, recently appeared onĀ “Running Later With Scott Rogowsky” last week to discuss her experience as an actress playing a lesbian character on the popular sitcom series.

“Two and a Half Men” has been called one of the most sex-positive, queer-friendly shows on television” but, this is only after Charlie Sheen’s exit. During Charlie Sheen’s lead appearance on the series, the show was argued as as a show that was primarily geared towards straight men and continously put down the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) . They series was also known for putting woman as the but of the joke. However, according to Amber Tamblyn, the series had a compelete change.

“It’s great to play a lesbian character that is not the butt of jokes and that is actually the one that supplies the jokes and oftentimes is not cast as the villain in a sitcom,” she told Rogowsky in the above clip, “or a stereotype or any of those things… I think they’ve got a lot of young, great and it’s kind of amazing for a show like that to go through the changes that it has and really come from being a show that was primarily for men and -based jokes to jokes that, really, a lot of and a lot of of mine who are gay and even transgender it.”

Check out the clip to hear more about Tamblyn’s experiences playing a lesbian role on “Two and a Half Men”. Make sure to check out the series on CBS.

Photo Courtesy of Amber Tamblyn Facebook

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