![]() ![]() I kind of feel like I’m back in kindergarten with a bunch of people who have university degrees. It’s just people being bitchy, catty, looking for fodder and trying to get attention. Thanks, Mom and Dad, but I had nothing to do with that! So yes, there’s vanity and maybe I go to the gym and am a little bit more of a narcissist than most people in taking care of my physical appearance, but at the same time, if I’m not going to indulge and really take on that BuzzFeed article that objectified me … if I’m not going to get excited about that, I can’t get as excited about - and I’m using this in quotes - “negative,” because I don’t even see it as that negative. One week, there’s a piece that literally doesn’t address any of my cooking but just talks about my physical appearance. But then when he started reading more of them, they’re actually hilarious and so funny! We have to take it for what it is, because it is entertaining. The first time I heard about it, I was in utter shock. One thing is, my boyfriend reads me little parts of the Vulture recaps of every episode. When the whole thing first came out on Netflix, the first show to ever drop in 190 countries, it was big. ![]() But is it strange to be talked about not so much as a person as much as a character. I know there’s a lot of fluff around it, and color, and the chemistry between all of us, and the car rides, humor, heart, and crying, but it’s a service job.įrom my vantage point, it’s mostly lighthearted. It’s not about me trying to show the world what an amazing home cook I am, but about how we can come in and, in a short time, better their lives, because it is a service job. I just don’t want it to detract from the fact that it’s a show about helping people, and it’s not about my skill set. It’s consensual: You know it’s made with some pretty disgusting stuff, you’ve just got to be okay with it. It’s like buying a hot dog in Central Park. I mean, what am I going to do, cry about it? I have to laugh! It just goes with the territory. So I am aware, but I’m not engaging or indulging in them too much. My boyfriend reads a lot of stuff, he relays a bit of information, and I have friends who feel the need to send me screenshots of certain things that get written. I maintain a healthy amount of ignorance. The best advice that was given to me during this whole insanity storm since the show came out is that I’m not allowed to read good or bad press, which I’m starting to understand now. People are having fun with this piece asking if you can cook or not. Okay, so I have something very specific I want to talk about, but I need to address the stuff that other people are talking about first. This interview, which took place in an extremely loud Joe & the Juice, is about that love, and the funny, unexpected places talking about a book you love can take you. If the shirts weren’t enough of an indication, Porowski loves the book, identifying as a mix of Jude and Willem - the broken protagonist and the caregiver. The novel, which describes harrowing sexual and emotional abuse, has been described as everything from tragedy porn to the greatest gay novel of our time. It’s companion swag to two T-shirts he has worn on the show that read “Jude & JB & Willem & Malcolm” – the four main characters from A Little Life – that suggested something twisted and knotty beneath the surface of a teary but optimistic makeover show.Ī Little Life, published in 2015, has a power that only accrues with each passing dinner party and cocktail conversation. He’s also carrying a tote bag that lists the major streets from Yanagihara’s contemporary tome of male friendship and love, A Little Life. He’s wearing his signature Queer Eye look: a band T-shirt (Arcade Fire this time), a black leather jacket, and a smile that curls at the edges. “There’s been a lot of attention and objectification, which I didn’t think, as a 33-year-old basically married male, would be the case, but it has been,” Porowski tells me. Unpredictably, he has become the most controversial member of the five, in the way that the internet likes to take a joke and run with it, because what did this beautiful man really know about cooking if he was teaching people how to make grilled cheese? Until recently, he was a working actor appearing in smaller parts, but his biggest role so far is playing himself as the food expert in the newly rebooted Queer Eye. Antoni Porowski seems like a character imagined by Hanya Yanagihara: He’s a beautiful man, with soft, dark eyes that betray a glimmer of turmoil underneath an Instagram-perfect life (see his carefully laid thirst traps, food photos, and equally beautiful boyfriend). ![]()
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