Pace in Halt and Catch Fire (Image via AMC)
Lee Pace, notoriously private but famously glass-closeted, came out definitively after being asked in W Magazine the perfectly appropriate question of whether he is gay. At the time, he was set to appear in Angels in America, and had said he felt it was important for the gay roles to be played by as many gay actors as possible, so the question was contextually sound — yet it surprised him, and in coming out, he came off as defensive.
Now, he's opening up further in The New York Times, saying:
