You may remember Ansel Elgort from the 2013 revision of Stephen King's
Carrie: he played Tommy Ross, who takes the repressed schoolgirl with psychic powers to the prom, and gets doused with pig blood. The 2013 version emphasizes the bullying and the gay symbolism of Carrie's "difference."
The 24-year actor also starred in
Divergent (2014) is about a dystopian society that hunts down people who don't fit in to one of the five social categories: "what makes you different, makes you dangerous." Let the gay symbolism begin!
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) is a heterosexual romance about two teens who fall in love in a cancer support group. After the replicated the romantic poster with co-star Nat Wolff, he had to specify: "I like girls. A lot. But if I was gay, I wouldn't hide it."
The son of photographer Arthur Elgort, Ansel has naturally gravitated toward modeling, appearing
Teen Vogue, American Vogue, and elsewhere.
Also the son of an opera director, he has naturally gravitated toward music. He has Facebook and Soundcloud pages where you can check out his tunes.
Ansel belongs to the laid-back "post-gay" world. When he took off his shirt for a spread in the spring 2013 issue of
Flaunt magazine, he stated that he had a girlfriend, but "would go gay for Tom Hardy."
