Sterling K. Brown Poses For ‘Playboy:’ It’s Nice To Have Your Sexuality Celebrated, As Long As You’re Not Being Fetishized!

Sterling K. Brown Poses For ‘Playboy:’ It’s Nice To Have Your Sexuality Celebrated, As Long As You’re Not Being Fetishized!

“This Is Us” actor Sterling K. Brown just may have the most covered up “Playboy” spread of all time! This may be in direct protest of the nearly one million Google results of the search-phrase, “Sterling K. Brown shirtless!” In the seasoned actor’s most recent interview, he discusses the lack of diverse roles in Hollywood, creating his own narratives, and being a sex symbol.

Sterling K. Brown says that being a sex-symbol has never been his aim:

“[I’m] sneaky fit…I’m not popping out of my clothes per se, but if I ever take my shirt off, you’d be like, ‘Oh snap, I didn’t see that one coming.’ I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a job because of the way I was built. People have seen me as being a good actor, and they hire me for things in which they need a good actor.”

He continued:

“It’s a slippery slope, and it’s one that is dangerous – [but] it’s nice to have your sexuality celebrated, as long as you’re being celebrated in total, as a whole human being and not fetishized as one particular thing.”

He commented on how Black actors have to maneuver in Hollywood considering the lack of diverse roles available:

“We got to keep it together, because they got Mekhi Phifer or Omar Epps on call, waiting to come in and replace your boy. You spend so long feeling replaceable that it’s hard to shake that feeling…If you have a black movie, we need to stop selling it as if it’s only for a black audience. A movie about black people can appeal to anyone. All human stories have a universal appeal when told well…”

“…Will Smith has the strength to pair himself with whomever he wants and sell that movie globally. He can provide an opportunity to a sister to shine in a way they may not be able to if it weren’t a Will Smith movie.”

Sterling started his own production company, Indian Meadows Productions, to change that narrative:

“I wanted to have some sort of control over what stories could be put out to the world and take advantage of an opportunity to be one of the storytellers. If you don’t have enough bells and whistles in terms of the right writers, the right showrunners, the right directors, the best piece of material can fall on deaf ears.”

Sterling K. Brown gave this hilarious quip on how “This Is Us'” notoriety has changed him after two decades in Hollywood:

“I’m a total d*ck now. I have narrowed my peripheral vision.”

Written by Miata Shanay