Colman Domingo has shut down homophobic criticism after starring in Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Tears’ music video in drag.
Pop singer Carpenter launched her seventh studio album ‘Man’s Greatest Pal‘ final week (August 29), with the Rocky Horror-inspired visible for ‘Tears’ following swimsuit, seeing the singer dial up her disdain for ineffective males, with the assistance of Euphoria star Domingo.
Within the Bardia Zeinali-directed video, Carpenter finds herself in the midst of the woods after a automotive crash and is met with Domingo, in Dr. Frank-N-Furter-esque drag. Very like Susan Sarandon’s Janet, her outfit shortly turns into lingerie, and Carpenter spins on a pole in a corn discipline, has a glittery dance break with Domingo and a bunch of LGBTQ+ performers.
On Saturday (August 30), the Sing Sing actor replied to an X/Twitter person who’d criticised his look within the video, writing: “Guess he was too manly even for a homosexual man. Needed to put him in drag in Sabrina Carpenter’s video huh? Bullshit!”
Followers leapt to his defence, with the actor himself responding to the homophobic rant. “It’s a personality. Like all of the characters I play. Relax brother,” he wrote. “Benefit from the video and the enjoyable that it possesses. Dance it out! It ain’t that deep.”
He went on to cite a lyric from RuPaul’s 2014 monitor ‘Born Bare’, writing: “We’re born bare and the whole lot else is drag. Fits, t shirts, clothes. All drag. 😂👍🏾🙏🏽”
The actor spoke to NME earlier this 12 months about his again to again Oscar nominations, first in 2024 for his empathetic efficiency in Rustin, a biopic of queer civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
“That form of catapulted me to main man standing,” Domingo instructed us. He additionally turned, after Ian McKellen in 1998’s Gods And Monsters, solely the second out homosexual man to be nominated for enjoying a homosexual character.
It’s a personality. Like all of the characters I play. Relax brother. Benefit from the video and the enjoyable that it possesses. Dance it out! It ain’t that deep. “We’re born bare and the whole lot else is drag” Fits, t shirts, clothes. All drag. 😂👍🏾🙏🏽
— Colman Domingo (@colmandomingo) August 30, 2025
Earlier this 12 months, he was as soon as once more up for Greatest Actor for his half in Sing Sing, a jail drama he helped to form. “From begin to end, I bought to place my fingerprints on each body,” mentioned.
So far as future initiatives, he mentioned: “Every little thing I’ve, it’s as a result of I haven’t put any limitations on myself,” he says. “I didn’t know the place this profession would go, to be sincere, however I’m actually pleased with the place it’s.”
The actor is ready to mark his directorial debut with the upcoming Sydney Sweeney-led Kim Novak biopic, which charts her relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. Yesterday (September 1), the actor mentioned apprehensions the movie would sexualise their affair.
Talking in regards to the movie final 12 months, Domingo instructed Deadline he hopes to start out manufacturing on the challenge after he and Sweeney wrap the long-gestating third season of Euphoria.
“Hopefully we’ll make an attractive, candy movie that’s actually about the potential for love, however below many eyes, making an attempt to have privateness, making an attempt to have love, making an attempt to have a life,” he mentioned. “And I feel it’s one thing that Sydney and I each know very effectively. We’re making an attempt to advocate in your humanity once more in your life.”
