Ezra Miller cast as The Flash for big screen

Ezra Miller made some Hollywood history today by becoming the first LGBT star to be cast as a main superhero in a major studio film.

Miller, best known for the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, has been cast as The Flash in Warner Bros movies based on DC Comics.

He will star in a 2018 movie built around the character but is expected to first inhabit the role in 2017’s Justice League Part One, according to Buzzfeed.

Rather than identify as gay or bisexual, Miller uses the term ‘queer’ to describe himself.

“I’m queer,’ he told Out in 2012. ‘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.’

Hopefully this will show some closeted actors that they can still have a big movie career if they are out – if they have the talent and the appeal.

To have this happen on the same day as Neil Patrick Harris became the first openly gay man to be picked to host the Oscars is incredible indeed.