Kevin Zegers covers the August 2013 issue of BELLO magazine

Kevin Zegers is on the cover of BELLO magazine for the month of August 2013. The Mortal Instruments star talked to the magazine about playing a gay character in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, as well as the death of his close friend Cory Monteith.

On playing Alec Lightwood:

“The thing that I didn’t want was for him to be some generic, prototypical character, what people would expect from the gay character,” Kevin said. “For me, it was about creating a character whose sexuality didn’t matter…I actually don’t think it’s that big of a f–king issue anymore. Certainly not with me, and especially not with the generation that read this book. So it wasn’t something that we really focused on. But one thing I was aware of was the fact that there haven’t been many great examples of a really strong gay character, one of the leads in a really big movie who happens to be gay and who’s also kind of a badass.”

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