BuzzFeed's Louis Peitzman busted wide open the case of Luke Grimes, the actor who joined Season 6 as James, Jessica's high-cheekboned, brooding loner boyfriend in the vampire concentration camp. Tons of eyebrows were raised last December when reports surfaced that Grimes had left the production—his highest profile role to date—over "creative differences."
But now we know what those creative differences might've actually been: "The True Blood" writers were refashioning James as a not only a love interest for Jessica, but also a love interest for Lafayette. So, in a truly retrograde bit of
homophobia, Grimes decided that playing a gay (or, really, bisexual) role was unacceptable, according to Yahoo News.
I was wondering where that guy went