Breakfast w/Greg: Leslie Jordan talks to The Advocate; Gerard Butler repeals DADT on Saturday Night Live

Happy Monday!

It was a busy as heck weekend so forgive me for oversleeping a bit and posting the morning column of tidbits a bit late today. I still have to put the finishing touches on the Morning Mn who will technically be an Afternoon Man!

Anyway, Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat had its LA opening at the Sunset 5 on Friday and will play there through this Thursday. Advocate.com’s Brandon Voss has a new interview with one of the cast members, the great Leslie Jordan, who is best known for Sordid Lives and for his hilarious role as Beverly Leslie, the nemesis of Karen Walker on Will & Grace.

Here is a portion of the interview. You’ll have to go to Advocate.com to see the rest!

Eating Out 3 might be the raciest one in the threesome. Do you think queer indie films need gratuitous sex and full-frontal nudity to succeed?
It does sell tickets. The minute I heard you got to see Jason Segal’s dick, I bought a ticket to Forgetting Sarah Marshall. My gripe has always been that you’ll have a gay indie with a great message, but once you add nudity you end up just preaching to the choir. All the gay people are going to see it because of the nudity, but you’re not going to reach a wider audience with a bunch of boys sucking each other off. Brokeback Mountain had the perfect wide appeal. Yes, it had a little spit and butt-fucking, which was hot, but that didn’t overshadow the love story. I haven’t seen Eating Out 3 yet because our L.A. premiere is Friday night, so I didn’t know there was nudity until I read an interview with some of the boys in one of the gay rags this week. I guess I’m just as guilty because I can’t wait to see their wieners.

What do you think of actors — Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie and your costar Sean Hayes on Will & Grace spring to mind — who make fortunes playing gay roles yet remain coy about their own sexuality. Do actors have a responsibility to disclose their sexuality?
Without naming names, there are actors that drive me crazy for that reason. We’re in the throes of the greatest civil rights movement since the 1960s, so we could really use their help. The only thing fame gets you is a platform — except maybe a good table at a restaurant — so it’s irresponsible if someone is gay and not using their fame to further the cause. That would be like a black actor in the ’60s refusing to do anything for the black cause.

Whatever happened with 12 Miles of Bad Road, the HBO series you were working on with Lily Tomlin?
It was brilliant, but HBO decided it was too broad, so it got canned. If you take the words of Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and put them in the mouths of Lily Tomlin and Leslie Jordan, what did you expect — a John-fucking-Adams miniseries? Of course it’s going to be broad!

Before I let you go, I promised some friends I’d tell you that they have a house out in Fire Island Pines that they’ve christened The Beverley Leslie, complete with “Beverley Leslie” welcome mats, embossed napkins, and stationery.
No way! I love it. Well, Megan Mullally called me months ago and told me she wanted to do Karen: The Musical on Broadway featuring Beverley Leslie. Apparently it’s in development and she’s got a great writer for the book and a great lyricist working on it, so pretty soon you and your friends will have to come in from Fire Island to see me in Karen: The Musical.

But wasn’t Beverley Leslie sucked out of a very high window in the Will & Grace finale?
We decided that maybe he landed on an awning of Bloomingdale’s that slipped him onto a bus that took him off somewhere.

REPEAL OF DADT: Well, at least in Sparta. The delicious Gerard Butler reprised his role King Leonidas in 300 when he guest hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend. It turns out his entire army ia gay! We’re not sure if the leader is gay but we know he has sex with one of his soldiers!

It’s funny.

My only quibble is one of the soldiers is a stereotype that I think we are way past these days otherwise, very well-done!