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"  Open letters are usually the worst, but this one by Daniel Franzese to his Mean Girls character, Damian, is touching and honest, and you should read it. In the letter, published by IndieWire, Franzese talks about how he worried that playing Damian would pigeonhole him as an actor: &amp;quot;When I first became an actor, I wanted to play lots of roles \u2014 Guidos, gangsters and goombahs were my specialty,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;So, would I be able to play all of those parts after portraying a sensitive, moisturizing, Ashton Kutcher-loving, pink-shirt-wearing kid? I was optimistic.&amp;quot; But he says he indeed met a &amp;quot;gay glass ceiling,&amp;quot; losing parts because he wasn&amp;#039;t seen as &amp;quot;masculine&amp;quot; enough to play them. &amp;quot;Damian, you had ruined my life and I was really pissed at you.&amp;quot; He also admits he was still in the closet after the movie, &amp;quot;deleting tweets that asked if I was gay, scrubbing IMDB Message Boards for any indication, etc.&amp;quot; Now, though, he&amp;#039;s as grateful as the rest of us for his character: &amp;quot;Looking back, it took YOU to teach me how to be proud of myself again. It&amp;#039;s okay if no one wants to sit at the table with the &amp;#039;art freaks.&amp;#039; Being a queer artist is one of my favorite things about myself.&amp;quot; Go read the letter in full, then watch Mean Girls for the 100th time because why not. RELATED: Q&amp;amp;amp;A: Daniel Franzese on Mean Girls Alternate Endings and Damian&amp;#039;s Sexuality 20 Ways Mean Girls Would Be Different Today Photo credit: Frazer Harrison / Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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