Mark Indelicato is best known for his role in Ugly Betty, where he played Betty’s camp, fashion-obsessed nephew. Now 18 years old, he’s joined the cast of queer filmmaker Greg Araki’s White Bird (sometime referred to as White Bird In A Blizzard), alongside the previously cast Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Gabourey Sidibe, Christopher Meloni and Shiloh Fernandez.
The movie is about a young woman who loses control of her life when her mother disappears. Woodley will be playing the main part, but it’s not clear how the other actors will play into the story, although Variety reports that Indelicato will portray an outcast in a middle class school.
Indelicato knows something about that, as he’s previously talked about the death threats and abuse he received when he was playing a teenaged gay character on Ugly Betty, especially after it was widely reported that he himself was gay.
It’s not been revealed if being gay is why his character is an outcast in White Bird, but as Araki brings a very queer sensibility to everything he’s made – from Doom Generation to Kaboom! – we wouldn’t be surprised.
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