‘Melrose Place’ star Doug Savant on why his gay character couldn’t show affection: “They wanted the character to be palatable”

There was an actor I was working with who wasn’t as comfortable that he was playing someone who was gay.

I wanted, in an effort to show that [Savant’s character Matt Fielding] was behaving with this character in a way that was against his better judgment, I wanted him to steal a kiss at work. Like look around, make sure no one was looking, but kiss this guy in the cheek, just a peck on the cheek.

This other actor was so uncomfortable. He was like, ‘That’s not in the script, we’re not doing that.’ He was so uncomfortable with it. I sort of found that shocking.

There were very limited storylines that the network would be comfortable with [about the character’s sexuality] because the advertisers were only comfortable

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