WWW- ABC’s decision last week to darken a sex scene on “NYPD Blue” involving precinct commander Esai Morales didn’t sit well with the actor.
Morales, who appeared in the scene with cast member Jacqueline Obradors, lashed out at the network’s decision to force producer Stephen Bochco to dim their nude images.
“You can show a man getting his head blown off on TV, but you can’t show a man getting [oral sex],” Morales said in an interview with Jason Sechrest’s porn Web site [Note: the interview was on Sechrest’s show Young & The Curious and reported on by Adultfyi.com https://adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=2531
Morales, who replaced James McDaniel as commander of the fictional NYPD precinct in 2001, appears in his last series episode tonight.
“It’s so sad,” the actor said, “that, instead of building our infrastructure, instead of figuring out how to get more books into kids’ minds, or teaching children how to learn for themselves, we’re having fights about Janet Jackson’s breasts.”
The backlash against Jackson’s Feb. 1 Super Bowl appearance has altered the television landscape.
Besides the “NYPD Blue” episode, NBC had the producers of “ER” remove a scene in which an elderly woman’s breast is exposed, prompting programmers all over Hollywood to scan episodes for potentially offending material.
Morales did the interview with Sechrest on a Web site that includes interviews – and images – of sex stars and sex acts – just days before his last scenes on the police series were about to air.
In tonight’s episode, he’s shown leaving the precinct for good.
An ABC spokeswoman confirmed it was Morales with Sechrest, adding the actor did the show to help out a friend.
Morales appeared on the Internet program Friday night beside two porn stars – who were also guests – and addressed his own sexuality and being an AIDS dissident.
“I’m very secure of my sexuality,” Morales said, when asked if he has had a same-sex experience. “But when you’re a young boy, preteen, whatever, and you’re with your friends, it’s not even sexual. It’s more athletic, if anything. It’s like, ‘Look at the straw I drew.’ I think you got to be comfortable with your sexuality to be comfortable with other people’s. That’s the root of the right-wing fear and repression. Everyone should be married to the one they love.”
Morales also downplayed the impact of AIDS, saying health statistics show “the epidemic is really not an epidemic by most counts.”
Morales said more than $120 billion has been spent on research with no real results, except the creation of a lot more drugs.
“The truth is that while there is obviously something that we have all agreed to call AIDS,” he said. “What it is comprised of and how it actually functions is something that very few of us have any understanding about.”