"He’ll go to the extreme to keep this secret."From: NewNowNext
TNT’s new drama Animal Kingdom has given viewers lots of intrigue, family dynamics and Ellen Barkin as one of the baddest mama’s on television. Now it’s delivering a gay story line, as one of the Cody boys is revealed to be in a secret relationship with a surfer friend.
Earlier in the season we saw Deran Cody (Jake Weary) hooking up with a guy in a beach bathroom—and on last week’s episode we learned it was Adrian (Spencer Treat Clark), who runs a surf shop Cody’s family has been squeezing for payments.
Deran will do anything to keep their hookups on the downlow, though—even almost killing his nephew after he walks in on them having sex.
“For Deran, this is such a big secret and something that he’s struggling with everyday,” Weary told Out. “And as soon as there’s that potential leaking of the truth or that person who could give him up, he’ll go to the extreme to keep this secret and that’s something that’s so interesting about him.”
Does Barkin’s character, Smurf, know what her youngest is up to?
“This is something Ellen talked about,” Weary says. “Does she know? Does she know where I’m going all the time? Does she choose to not say anything for my benefit? Is there some weird jealousy involved [that’s] part of the reason why he cannot come out to his mother? It’s complicated, you know?”
The story line is not dissimilar from one on the Audience Network’s Kingdom, which sees Nick Jonas as the youngest brother in a hyper-masculine family grappling with his sexuality. In that instance it’s a family of UFC fighters. On Animal Kingdom, they’re a clan of petty criminals.
Fans complained Kingdom has dragged its feet with Jonas’ character, but Weary says Adrian “is definitely a pivotal character in Deran’s story line.”
Animal Kingdom airs Tuesdays at 9pm on TNT
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