(He will soon appear in Julio Torres' directorial debut, which also stars Tilda Swinton, Isabella Rossellini, and Greta Lee.) 'When I was growing up, there wasn't a lot of explicitly queer stuff, so I do feel like I was just grabbing little breadcrumbs from movies and shows when I could,' Scully says, mirroring the experience that most queer millennials and Gen X'ers had before films like Fire Island existed in the mainstream.
The 30-year-old actor came of age in San Antonio and got his start off-Broadway before transitioning to the screen. It's a charming nice-guy turn that differs wildly from his more out-there performances in You and the Paramount Network's Heathers reboot. The comedy ( now streaming on Hulu) puts a contemporary spin on Pride and Prejudice, which makes Scully the Charles Bingley to Bowen Yang's 'terminally alone' Jane Bennett.
James Scully is one of the resident heartthrobs in Fire Island, the Joel Kim Booster-scripted movie about a group of gay friends searching for love, sex, and/or all-night ragers during a trip to New York's storied queer mecca.
