Is Richard Madden Gay? Dating Life Rumors & His Relationship

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Richard Madden is a Scottish. He was acting in this film industry from his childhood. He acted in one film at the age of 11and this was made on-screen in 2000. He gained much recognition for his role as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones and in other films like Cinderella and Rocketman.

Richard Madden’s fans are eagerly waiting for his relationship status as single or couple?

More number questions were raised from his fan’s side as “ Is Richard Madden Gay?”. This is because he got an award for his super character in BBC’s series Bodyguard in 2018. In that, he acted in this role in Rocketman.

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By this role, only fans ask this more questions. In the Rocketman movie, he acted in the role of gay that means a bisexual person. There were a number of reviews from users that Richard is in a relationship with actor Brandon Flynn when they were noticed together in Los Angeles. A few fans say that the star is bisexual.

Richard said as he only request for this role, “It’s a rather horrible way when we begin limiting people’s casting primarily based on their non-public lives. We want to maintain variety and make positive all people are described. Hence, I additionally accept as accurate within casting the first-rate actor for the role.”

Richard wants to keep these matters private as he refused to discuss them whenever he was asked about his s*xuality.

Richard Madden and his Dating Life

Richard’s relationship begins with actress “Jenna Coleman,”. Jenna-Louise Coleman, since 2013 credited as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress. She is known for playing Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale. She is 35 years old. when he was shooting for the Game of Thrones movie. In his favorite series, “Doctors Who,” Jenna was chosen for a position in the series in an additional role.

But they were not true in their relationship. They did not love long each other. They quit their relationship at the end of 2015.

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A few months after in the same year of 2015, they were again spotted together in London. But this is not a sure confirm news. But the relationship got to fail.

In 2016, Richard Madden was spotted with Irish TV presenter Laura Whitmore. Unexpectedly their relationship too got to an end as soon as they have broken up with each other. They were in a relationship for a few months only.

Next year in 2017 speculation was that Richard is dating English actress, Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber when they were seen kissing in Ibiza.

Sometime back there were unconfirmed reports that he is in a relationship with Teen Wolf star Froy Gutierrez as the couple quarantined together in 2020.

The latest rumor on social media is that Richard Madden and his “Eternals” co-star Gemma Chan. They were in a relationship with each other for more than 10 years and they are very good friends.

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Is Richard Madden Dating anyone in 2021?

No, Richard was not ready to share his personal details with anyone else. Our assumption as he is not dating anyone in 2021.

Harry Styles, Gemma Chan and Richard Madden’s BTS pics from Eternals are priceless; See

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Gemma Chan has recently shared some unseen photos from Eternals filming, and it includes everybody’s favourite characters aka Eros and Ikaris. Harry Styles and Richard Madden are featured in Gemma Chan’s pictures and fans can’t get enough of their adorable friendship.

Taking to her social media platform, the actress promoted the movie’s release on Disney+ Hotstar and shared some funny pictures with the cast and the crew. In the pictures, fans would also notice Harry’s full superhero suit as Eros. Gemma shared selfies with Madden, and Styles and posed in the most adorable way ever! Fans took to the comments section to appreciate the friendship and lauded the three actors for their performances in the movie. “You’re my saviour,” one fan wrote. Another Instagram user commented, “TRUE ICONS.”

Ever since Eternals was released in the theatres, Marvel fans were willing to know Harry’s involvement with the movie. Many fans even speculated that he would have a much bigger part to play if the movie comes up with a sequel. While that hasn’t been confirmed yet, we can already see that the Dunkirk actor spent great times with the cast while shooting for the movie.

You can take a look at Gemma Chan’s post below:

The Chloé Zhao movie starred Angelina Jolie as Thena, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kit Harington as Black Knight, Gemma Chan as Sersi, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, and Harry Styles as Eros.

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Eternals Starring Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden To Release On This Date On Disney+ Hotstar

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With a unique storyline, new characters, and a stellar star cast, the Eternals marks Marvel Studios’ first massive swing into Phase 4. Eternals is a new beginning for new and old Marvel fans, exploring the realms of superpowers like never before- there’s something for everyone. Layered relationships forged over thousands of years, the dynamic between the Eternals characters are worth going gaga over. These superheroes display a great deal of vulnerability and support amongst and for one another, something that is rarely appreciated in superhero movies nowadays. As the Eternals, directed by Chloe Zhao, descend on Disney+ Hotstar in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and English on 12th January, let us take a look at some duos in Marvel’s Eternals to look out for:

Kingo & Karun

The relationship between Kingo, played by Kumail Nanjiani, and Karun, played by Harish Patel, carries much of the comic relief in this movie, making their friendship beautiful. Karun is there to ensure everything that Kingo needs are always met, wherever they may be. Although it isn’t clearly seen, you can see that Kingo appreciates Karun- having shared with him his biggest secret- an indicator of his trust in his best friend.

Makkari & Druig

Duos with the shortest screen time, stay with us for the longest. Their playful and flirtatious relationship make them super endearing to watch. Druig portrayed by Barry Keoghan isn’t a favourite amongst the Eternals yet Makkari played by Lauren Hidloff brings out his humanity. The only character who has signed to Makkari from the beginning, Druig’s lighter side is brought out by her and he brings out a side of playfulness to her that just exists with him, truly heartwarming.

Sersi & Ikaris

Arguably the most popular duo in the movie, their love story develops over the course of the action and drama. Sersi played by Gemma Chan and Ikaris played by Richard Madden bring out the best in each other even though their love is doomed. In the movie, his inhumanity is a huge driving force in her actions- her humanity is what sways Ikaris to save Earth from The Emergence- a cosmic event that happens once in a few billion years signifying the birth of a celestial.

Thena & Gilgamesh

If true love exists, it’s between these two. Thena portrayed by Angelina Jolie and Gilgamesh portrayed by Don Lee display love and warmth like no one’s business. After Thena is afflicted by Mahd W’yry, a condition that makes her dangerous to others, Gilgamesh swears to watch out for her- and together they lead a quiet life.

Sersi & Dane Whitman

Although they don’t get a lot of screentime, the simplicity between Sersi, played by Gemma Chan and Dane, played by Kit Harington is beautiful. The way they almost unravel themselves and their abilities to each other is gorgeous. Her inherent humanity and need to connect display themselves with the way she commits to Dane, fully aware that she will outlive him due to her own immortality.

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Eternals’ Hottest Romance Is Druig and Makkari

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With Oscar winner Chloé Zhao at the helm and a new cosmic mythos for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with grand practical effects and a cast of diverse superheroes, Eternals should have been unlike any MCU story before it. And so should have the centuries-spanning romance at its heart between Ikaris (Richard Madden) and Sersi (Gemma Chan). But as the rest of the film turned out to be mostly pretty on the surface but emotionally inert, these two immortal beings’ supposedly sweeping romance did, too.

The MCU is no stranger to couplings that range from “aw” to “ehh” to completely forgettable. (I still cringe at whatever Marvel was trying to do with Sharon Carter and Steve Rogers’s short-lived fling.) But Ikaris and Sersi’s relationship achieves a new level of sexless, doll-like faux intimacy for the franchise — truly something, considering the pair star in the MCU’s first-ever sex scene.

Out of Eternals’ ten heroes, the plot most closely follows Chan’s Sersi, a manipulator of matter who loves Earth, iPhones, and her fellow Eternal Ikaris. Sersi and Ikaris’s special moments together across time play out in a highlight reel — professing their love, marrying, breaking up (inexplicably, Ikaris just sort of leaves), then reuniting. In the present day, after her breakup from Ikaris, Sersi dates Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman, a (not so) seemingly ordinary human with whom she shares some cute moments. But the film clearly wants us to invest in Sersi and Ikaris, especially once he reenters her life, creating a tensionless love triangle of sorts. Chan and Madden are fine actors, but they seem bored by each other’s presence. And what’s the point of pairing two beautiful romantic leads when they’re as emotive as chiseled stone?

All the while, Barry Keoghan’s character Druig and Lauren Ridloff’s Makkari spend Eternals endlessly flirting in the fringes of the plot, igniting the hottest chemistry ever seen in the MCU. After thousands of years apart, Druig and Makkari melt into each other with such envious ease that Ikaris and Sersi’s reunion feels all the more stifled by comparison. The latter couple may get a ten-second missionary-sex scene on the beach, but when Keoghan’s Druig says, “My beautiful, beautiful Makkari”? That’s when I began to feel unwell.

Who knew Keoghan was this smooth? He’s always played such weirdos — the creepy, pasta-eating teen in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the little thief who drives Dev Patel to tears in The Green Knight — that I guess I never noticed. So thank you, Chloé Zhao, for opening my eyes and for personally ensuring that his bangs never budged from his forehead. Keoghan’s energy paired with Ridloff’s kinetic charm is just so thrilling. Their stolen glances, their little shoulder punches and smiles; the matching leather jackets they wear in a mid-credits scene; even the way they rest their foreheads together is so emotionally charged, they don’t need to say a word. Their eyes just spill affection.

Imagine if Eternals had centered their relationship, or literally anyone’s apart from Sersi and Ikaris’s. Gilgamesh (Don Lee) and Thena (Angelina Jolie) share an intimacy more intense than theirs, and they never even kiss. Hell, even the hilarious rapport between Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo and Harish Patel as Karun is more magnetic.

So much of Eternals hinges on Sersi and her competing feelings for earthlings and for Ikaris. Yet when a devastated Ikaris flings himself into the sun at the end of the movie, the moment feels empty enough that not even Sersi seems to care much. But I’m relieved that their dim romance sorted itself out, to be honest. All one can hope is that it paves the way for a more passionate relationship between Chan and Harington’s Dane Whitman — and more importantly, more time for Druig and Makkari.

Eternals Is Just the Plot of Steven Universe

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There are a lot of reasons Eternals, Marvel’s most recent phase-launcher now streaming on Disney+, falls short; the brilliant Angelica Jade Bastién has already laid out a number of them. There’s the Richard Madden–shaped charisma hole at its center, the jokes that sink like cement shoes, and oy, more weightless CGI monster fights. But here’s one more indictment against the MCU’s latest: Steven Universe did its plot first, and better.

Spoilers ahead.

Rebecca Sugar’s animated series Steven Universe ran on Cartoon Network from 2013 to 2019, and if you spend a lot of your online life in queer nerd spaces, you probably already know its whole deal. If not, it follows a (half-) human kid named Steven being raised by the Crystal Gems, powerful members of an advanced alien race of immortals who have lived on Earth among its people for around 6,000 years. Some are homesick for their Homeworld, but all of them have grown to love Earth and the imperfect people who inhabit it.

This is more or less the Eternals’ deal, too: They’re a group of superpowerful, immortal emissaries from space, living on Earth among its people for around 7,000 years. Like the Crystal Gems, they’ve occasionally crossed paths with and influenced human development. The Eternals introduced certain technologies like irrigation and the plough. The Crystal Gems’ presence impacted human life so that the show’s universe differs in small but notable ways from ours (the U.S. only has 39 states; the film industry is based in Kansas instead of California). Some characters are homesick: The Eternals’ speedster Makkari stays camped out in their spaceship, dreaming of when they can return to their home planet Olympia, while SU characters Pearl and Peridot fixate on returning to Homeworld. Others, like SU’s Amethyst and Eternals’ Sersi, enjoy the company of humans and the indulgences of human culture.

When Steven Universe begins, the Crystal Gems are unambiguously presented as good guys who spend their days saving Earth from monsters. They battle these monsters with unique weapons that only they can manifest: Garnet can summon giant, powerful fists; Pearl uses a sort of spear; and trickster younger-sister type Amethyst shape-shifts.

When Eternals begins, the Eternals are unambiguously presented as good guys who spend their days saving Earth from monsters. They battle these monsters with unique weapons that only they can manifest: Gilgamesh can summon giant, powerful fists; Thena uses a sort of spear; and trickster younger-sister type Sprite shape-shifts.

I acknowledge that the characters and mythos of the Eternals comics are far older than Steven Universe, and that many of these science-fiction and superhero tropes were established by Marvel and 20th-century American comic books in the first place. But here is where things begin to overlap in a way that doesn’t flatter Eternals by comparison.

We soon learn that the Crystal Gems’ position on Earth is more complicated than the show first let on. For one, the monsters they’ve been fighting are actually Corrupted Gems, and they’re more intelligent than their animalistic forms let on. Turns out, the Gem race was sent to Earth by a small group of massive, powerful space deities called the Diamonds to exploit a lesser planet. The Diamonds planted a massive cluster of fused Gems at the center of the Earth’s core, and this cluster, which has been dormant and incubating for millennia, will soon awaken as one gargantuan being and burst out of the Earth, destroying it.

Thus sums up both the A- and B-plots of Eternals. The action is sparked by the death of the group’s leader, Ajak, much like how Steven Universe begins with the death of the Crystal Gems’ leader, Steven’s mother Rose Quartz. The Eternals believed they were put on Earth to fight monsters called Deviants, but they soon learn that the Deviants are more intelligent and advanced than they used to be. They also learn that the only reason that the massive, powerful space deities called the Celestials (led by the one named Arishem) sent them to fight Deviants was to preserve Earth long enough to incubate a giant, dormant Celestial at the Earth’s core, which will soon awaken and burst out of the Earth, destroying it.

So the Gems/Eternals must defy the will of the Diamonds/Arishem and stop the Cluster/Celestial at the Earth’s core from awakening and busting the planet to bits. Both situations seem hopeless, but Steven Universe’s Steven and Eternals’ Druig both use an amplified psychic power to reach and subdue the sentient threat in the center of the Earth.

Where the two stories differ is in what themes these extremely similar plots are used to explore. When the Eternals learn that they’re essentially space robots who cannot evolve, it’s bittersweet, but only within the framework of the film’s Randian obsession with themes of evolution and progress. Director Chloé Zhao told Variety that she intended for Eternals to be infused with a Taoist philosophy similar to Steven Universe’s, saying, “In our society, in the stories we tell about ourselves, we often emphasize and celebrate masculine strength — the strength of constant action, of winning, of innovating and expending. In Eternals, we wanted to explore the feminine strength in all of us — the strength that comes from vulnerability, love, forgiveness and ‘actionless action.’” These are beautiful ideas that are not reflected in the film’s chilly, bird’s-eye view of humanity. It only zooms in on actual people at moments of productivity and industriousness: the agrarian economy, the efficient film set, the American suburban home.

Meanwhile, when the Crystal Gems marvel at humans’ un-Gem-like ability to grow and change, it’s more about the freedom to err, learn, accept each other, love each other, and live as one’s honest identity. In Steven Universe, when two gems fuse, it’s an act of trust and love that is stigmatized and forbidden on their home planet. In this way, fusion is queer-coded, and this fantastical device is used to introduce nonbinary characters like Stevonnie and gay relationships like Ruby and Sapphire, whose existence is central to the show’s plot and worldview. And because fusion is introduced to the viewer as such an intimate and meaningful act, the Cluster is terrifying not only because it threatens to destroy the Earth, but because it was made by force, without its composite gems’ consent. Eternals’ Celestials, meanwhile, are just an inversion of Marvel’s stale old Act Three threat of “giant hole in the sky.” A generous reading could cast the final rift between Sersi and Ikaris as a pro-choice allegory, with the unsympathetic zealot Ikaris bullishly insisting that it’s worth carrying the Celestial to term and destroying the beings of Earth without their consent because it will create potential, future life. But that’s, like, a galaxy-brain stretch; it takes some squinting.

And while the cast of Eternals is admirably diverse, that diversity has been used as a shield by MCU fans against genuine criticisms of the film. Brian Tyree Henry’s character Phastos gives a small, impassioned speech toward the end of the movie about how he cherishes his son and his husband, and how he lives for himself and not for any Celestial. But the kiss he shares with his husband earlier in the movie is the sort of thing that a homophobic censor could cut out, with the rest of the film remaining largely identical. In fact, this has already happened in certain film markets. Queerness, identity, and diversity of bodies in Eternals are not as thematically, explicitly crucial to the plot as they are in Steven Universe. The Gems of Steven Universe all fight for Earth because it’s a place where they can make chosen families, find euphoria in the fullest expression of their identities, and dance and transform and kiss whomever they want. It’s what makes us care about all of these characters, not just one out of ten. If Marvel had the courage of its convictions, Eternals could have been something special. Steven Universe is a taste of what it could have been.

Also, Steven Universe has more interesting color palettes than just “all golden hour always,” and the jokes actually land. So.