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“Gotham” star Cory Michael Smith came out as gay as he 
talked about his role as Adrian in the touching film, “1985.” The coming out film is all about a young man with AIDS named Adrian, who heads home to Texas for the holidays, which might be his last because of the disease.
When “THE DAILY BEAST” met Adrian, his partner has recently died of 
AIDS. He himself is sick. They watched his pilgrimage, leaving his community in New York City for his family home in Texas, and perhaps expect to see a coming out story. But in many ways, Writer-director Yen Tan says, “1985” is a film about not coming out. There’s an added layer to the tragedy: the desire to be truly known by the people you love, especially before your death. And the emotional burden you carry when they don’t”.
That notion in particular struck Cory Michael Smith, who plays Adrian in the film. The 31-year-old actor, who has starred in HBO’s Olive Kitteridge miniseries, Broadway (baring it all) 
and best known for playing Edward Nygma, aka The Riddler, on Fox’s “Gotham”. 
“There’s something special about telling a story that feels closer to home,” Smith, who identifies as queer, tells The Daily Beast. “I’m not exactly like The Riddler in real life. “I’m from Middle America,” he says. “I’m from Ohio. I’ve been living here in New York for a while, and there are stretches when I don’t see my family often. Going home and that whole charade is very familiar. The first family dinner after a while. Coming out to a family, the fear of that.” 
Cory says his own family handled his coming out with “a lot of love,” though it took “a lot of time, before he mustered up the courage to do so.
Smith is known for playing the Riddler, in the Fox show 
“Gotham.” His character has a long-standing feud against Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor), also known as the Penguin. But in Season 4, the two former-friends-turned-enemies will be back in each other’s lives. In fact, they might even be working together.
“The Riddler and the Penguin come back into each other’s lives, and it’s a really, really great moment. And it’s 
unexpected; I don’t think people will expect the way this happens,” Taylor told TV Line about their union. “It also kind of shows one of my favorite things about the show, which is that these characters take the lessons and the experiences of the past and they change and they grow and they evolve, as the years go on.”
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