Hold the Phone: Todd Solondz Not Actually Gay

OUT just did an interview with filmmaker Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Life During Wartime) and in the process they end up clarifying a misunderstanding we've had for years. Todd Solondz is not, in fact, gay! Instead, they just call him "exceptionally ethnic" and "hyper-Semitic" and they note throughout the interview all the times he slips into a Zero Mostel impression while speaking.

As for speaking to a gay audience, he says he always knew he kind of was, as far as telling stories about marginalized characters etc. But yeah, wow. He doesn't like dick.

Trailer: 'Life During Wartime' from Todd Solondz

Life During Wartime is a sequel of sorts to Happiness, the controversial 1998 film by our favorite fag filmmaker (next to Todd Haynes, of course), Todd Solondz. He's also the guy who created Dawn Wiener of Welcome to the Dollhouse, and this new movie features an ensemble cast of many of the same characters from Happiness, only recast with different actors. It stars Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Paul Reubens, and Ciaran Hinds in the pedophile role originated by Dylan Baker.

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