With the freshly released complete series of My So-Called Life still in the DVD players of fans nostalgic for brilliant-but-cancelled TV shows, it's easy to remember how gay actor Wilson Cruz broke new television ground as the outcast queer high school student during that series' brief life.

Since then, Cruz has appeared in independent projects and keeps working for queer causes, but a triple scoop of new films looks very likely to raise the still-young star's profile.

He'll appear in the gay indie drama The Ode, about a young Indian man who runs off to Hollywood; the basketball drama Green Flash; and - speaking of flash - in the all-star comedy He's Just Not That into You, alongside Jennifer Connelly, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, and Jennifer Aniston.

Nothing "so-called" about that gig at all.

All three movies should be out in the coming year.

Last update: 12-29-2007 00:11