“I wished we could have played more with what was quite obvious to a lot of us,” the showrunner said.
What if Alex Russo was part of the LGBTQ community?
Hayley Kiyoko appeared as Stevie Nichols in Season 3, where she had a close friendship with Alex. Murrieta had hoped to explore their connection even more, believing he could create a queer relationship. “Disney Channel has had [LGBTQ] characters, and they did it. At that time it wasn’t a thing. But we got as close as we could… I mean, it was pretty close,” the filmmaker said of the show. “That would have been great.”
Disney Channel began adding queer representation in their characters in 2019 when the series “Andi Mack” had the network’sAlex had a multitude of heterosexual relationships on the show, including longtime crushes on characters Mason and Dean Moriarty .Peter Murrieta sat down with the show’s stars Jennifer Stone and David DeLuise and they discussed how Alex Russo could have been queer.and came out to her parents in the sixth grade — wasn’t out when her episodes aired in 2010.
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