Actor Daniel Franzese, who starred alongside Lindsay Lohan and Lizzy Caplan in 2004's 'Mean Girls', has come out as gay through a letter to his character of Damian in the hit teen comedy.
The 35-year-old actor wrote an open letter to acknowledge his sexual orientation ahead of the movie's tenth anniversary, reported Ace Showbiz.
"I was twenty-six, you were sixteen. You were proud of who you were; I was an insecure actor. You became an iconic character that people looked up to; I wished I'd had you as a role model when I was younger," Franzese wrote.
"I might've been easier to be gay growing up. When I was cast in the role of Damian in 'Mean Girls', I was terrified to play this part. But this was a natural and true representation of a gay teenager- a character we laughed with instead of at," he further wrote.
Franzese said that he originally resisted playing Damian to avoid hitting a "gay glass ceiling" in the casting process.
