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Jordan Firstman says Sundance TV pushed back against his decision to cast a 50-year-old openly gay actor as the lead in his series “Call Your Father.” “He wasn’t an unknown; he was a great working actor,” Firstman recalls, declining to give his name. “The studio was like, ‘We would love to cast a gay actor, but there’s just no one that even touches the level of fame we need to justify you doing the show at this budget.’” “I got to a place where I told them, ‘I’m not doing this if the actor isn’t gay.’ I was a little bit threatening, like, ‘You guys don’t want to look homophobic.’” wp.me/pc8uak-1lI46A