"In brightest day, in blackest night, forget that 'Stonewall' movie's blight?" That's the question for English actor Jeremy Irvine, who has just inked a deal to appear as a gay Green Lantern in the upcoming HBO Max series, according to Entertainment Weekly. "Irvine starred in 'Stonewall,' which was criticized for its whitewashing of the Stonewall riots, as Danny Winters," EW recalled of the 2015 Roland Emmerich-directed drama. "The character was fictionalized and not based on any one real-life figure." Noting the film and its central character being castigated for reframing the Stonewall riots, EW writes: "One scene even saw the character take the famous Stonewall brick from the hands of a queer person of color and throw it himself to spark the movement — a perfect symbol for how the film took the story of Black and Brown queer people away from them and claimed it as something else." Irvine has drawn accolades for his body of work, including the film "War Horse" and the "Jason Bourne" TV spinoff, "Treadstone." However, his role as Danny in Stonewall still looms large for some gay members of the LGBTQ audience. With that, EW questioned Irvine's casting as the iconic Alan Scott. Created in 1940, Scott was the first of a number of fictitious comic book characters to bear the "Green Lantern" moniker. The character was reinvented in the 2000s as an out gay superhero. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️‍???‍♂️? (?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi , ?: Jeremy Irvine / Instagram / @jeremy.irvine / DC)

"In brightest day, in blackest night, forget that 'Stonewall' movie's blight?" That's the question for English actor Jeremy Irvine, who has just inked a deal to appear as a gay Green Lantern in the upcoming HBO Max series, according to Entertainment Weekly. "Irvine starred in 'Stonewall,' which was criticized for its whitewashing of the Stonewall riots, as Danny Winters," EW recalled of the 2015 Roland Emmerich-directed drama. "The character was fictionalized and not based on any one real-life figure." Noting the film and its central character being castigated for reframing the Stonewall riots, EW writes: "One scene even saw the character take the famous Stonewall brick from the hands of a queer person of color and throw it himself to spark the movement — a perfect symbol for how the film took the story of Black and Brown queer people away from them and claimed it as something else." Irvine has drawn accolades for his body of work, including the film "War Horse" and the "Jason Bourne" TV spinoff, "Treadstone." However, his role as Danny in Stonewall still looms large for some gay members of the LGBTQ audience. With that, EW questioned Irvine's casting as the iconic Alan Scott. Created in 1940, Scott was the first of a number of fictitious comic book characters to bear the "Green Lantern" moniker. The character was reinvented in the 2000s as an out gay superhero. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️‍???‍♂️? (?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi , ?: Jeremy Irvine / Instagram / @jeremy.irvine / DC)