“So, I made some great relationships early on, and never understood how someone would not accept someone for them being who they were.” “I think th ere was this element of being deeply rooted in the LGBTQ, because - theatre - my closest friends that I made at an early age who were LGBTQ,” he says. Jacket, T-shirt, Saint Laurent, Bracelet Title Of Work Any story, this one included, profiling Nick Jonas, would be remiss to overlook his current involvement in LGBTQ advocacy. The paternal lesson of empathy deeply affected young Nick, and the proximity to a community of people he worked with and loved solidified it. He opened my mind in that way, and helped me understand at an early age that as an actor, even as a kid, it was my job to impact someone’s life, and bring a story to them that would hopefully bring them some perspective or compassion or understanding of someone else’s journey.” “I remember I had an important conversation with my father where we talked about the importance of telling stories, and how there’s a difference between the person that you are and the person that you can play.
“And my character sings, ’What the hell?’ and flips somebody off in the show,” recalls Nick, who had been concerned the churchgoers would turn on him. Nick was dazzling theatre critics as Gavroche, the young street urchin-turned-revolutionary who confronts the police inspector Javert. It started when parishioners from Kevin, Sr.’s church came to see the local pastor’s son make good on Broadway, and one of those plays happened to be Les Misérables. Then, a change began to happen, and it was actually at his father’s encouragement. Nick released a song written with his dad, Kevin Jonas, Sr., then a Pentacostal minister, called Joy to the World (A Christmas Prayer), and then a follow up single, Dear God, both put out before the Jonas Brothers were conceived of as a band. Religion was part of the initial package: His first Broadway role was as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol in 2000. Another patron heard his sweet voice and gave mom the info of a talent agent, who almost immediately sent him on Broadway auditions. Nick was discovered first, at 6, when he was singing in a hair salon while his mom got a ’do. They were a mom-approved, sexless, Jesus-lovin’ boyband living in a pre-Bieber world.īut something had always been bubbling under the façade. They made a deal with Disney’s Hollywood Records, and appeared on Hannah Montana. They played two songs on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Now, it’s men (and women) for whom the sexiness arouses.īefore the abs, the Jonas Brothers were almost unbelievably popular, and much of that had to do with their squeaky-clean, brotherly love image. In the late-aughts, young girls fawned over young Nick and his brothers Joe and Kevin. To people like James, Nick Jonas is a sex bomb a long ways away from his son-of-a-preacher-man beginnings. I sent him a picture of a shirtless Jonas to inspire these words). “He’s so sexy I can’t take it,” my friend James texts me when I tell him I’m interviewing Jonas (n.b. “Abs” could be synecdoche for “Nick Jonas,” as in, “For the forty-five minutes or so, I chatted with abs on the phone about his life.” For whole demographics - men and women - the words “Nick Jonas” evokes six fat-free tummy stones, hard to the touch, a happy trail of fur tracing a line to the belt. I could probably finish the profile there, and most of you would be satisfied.
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