Transporter 2 director, Louis Leterrier [Unleashed], announced that the movies main character, Frank Martin, is in fact the first gay action hero. Without channging any part of uber-producer Luc Besson's script Leterrier says he created a gay subtext to the movies hero.
"I was very afraid of doing a Steven Seagal kind of movie — very formulaic and predigested," the 32-year-old said. "So I had to find an angle."
"If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun," Leterrier insisted. "It's so great — the first gay action movie hero! "
"Action fans in general are pretty homophobic," he said. "You see these tough guys who say, ' "The Transporter," that's such a great movie!' If they only knew they're really cheering for a new kind of action hero."
As evidence, he mentions a scene in which the drug czar's wife, played by Amber Valetta, makes romantic overtures toward the Transporter. Martin rebuffs her, explaining, "It's because of who I am."
"That's him coming out!" Leterrier exclaims.
