Aaron McCusker: Serial killer, busker, astronaut, and hairdresser, with no qualms about playing gay or showing his cock

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  I was drawn to this photo on the IMDB, thinking that it was a gay couple cuddling.  Turns out that it's Aaron McCusker and Charlotte Ramping, who is dressed as a man, in a 2016 episode of Dexter.   So, maybe they're not a romantic couple, but lesbian and gay male platonic pals?

No, Aaron is playing AJ Yates, a serial killer who specializes in women's feet because as a kid he hid under the bed to escape his abusive mother, and could see her feet coming toward him. Yuck.  Charlotte is his psychotherapist, Evelyn Vogel.  Probably straight, since she has a husband and two sons, one a serial killer, and the other his victim.  Sounds like a cheery show.

Ok, dead end, but that gay vibe has to come from somewhere.  Maybe McCusker is gay in real life? 

Doubtful.  According to Wikipedia, he is married to Jennie Sutton, and supports both Liverpool and Celtic.  Presumably those are sports teams.

What about gay characters?  His most significant role appears to be Jaimie Maguire, head of the Maguire crime family in 109 episodes of Shameless (2007-13).   The fan wiki gives Jaimie a wife and two girlfriends, so straight.  But Shameless gives us some other gay characters, plus a cock shot.

Plus a bulge, when the entire cast posed in underwear with guns.

And a butt shot.

Aaron also appeared in eight episodes of Fortitude (2015),  a British thriller set on an island in the Norwegian Artic, where there are a lot of weird murders and nothing is what it seems. The fan wiki doesn't give a lot of information, only that he is the victim of one of the weird murders, and he has a wife and two daughters.  So straight.

But at least he gives us another cock shot.

Ten episodes of The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). a drama about the wives of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, who piloted the first manned space flights in the early 1960s.   Aaron played astronaut Wally Schirra: a wife and two kids.  Straight, but playing a real person, he could hardly help it.  Lots of gay people from history are turned straight for the big screen.

Google says that this is a shirtless Aaron McCusker.  I doubt it: the muscles and hair are all wrong.

Maybe more McCusker cock after the break

I don't believe that this is really his cock, either.  The size is all wrong, and that is not the body of a 40 year old. Maybe it is from early in his career, when he was a struggling theatrical actor with a semi.

I found a gay role:  In Bohemian Rhapsody (2016), a biopic of the rock group Queen. Aaron plays Jim Hutton, boyfriend of guitarist Freddy Mercury.  They even get a kiss!

An interview in The Belfast Times, tried to get Aaron to complain that playing one of those sort was terrible.  But he wouldn't take the bait: "I had no qualms about doing it, and I would be happy to play a gay character again."

But what about having to kiss another bloke?  Surely that must have been horrifying! "It was different...so this was a challenge, but when we came to do those scenes, it was like water flowing down a duck's back." 

These are the sorts of questions that actors playing gay roles were asked in the 1990s, not in 2015.  But I guess Northern Ireland is old fashioned. It didn't get same-sex marriage until 2020 -- 45% of Protestants still oppose it --  and gay men weren't allowed to donate blood until 2021.  (They still can't in the U.S., unless they haven't had gay sex for a year or more)

Back to Aaron's tv and movie roles: six episodes of Women on the Verge, an Irish drama about three female friends whose lives are spiraling out of control.  McCusker plays Martin, the ex-boyfriend of one of the friends, who agrees to get back together because "he's madly in love with her." Nope.

Eight episodes of Marcella, a British noir about a detective named Marcella.  In Season 3, she goes undercover to infiltrate the Maguire crime family.  McCusker plays Finn, the middle child and CEO, who hasn't produced a son yet, to the consternation of his Mum.  So, is he averse to the idea of sexing with women to make that baby? 

Nope.  He's got a girlfriend. There's a lesbian couple, but no gay men in the series.

No cock shot, either, just an underwear bulge while Finn smooches with his sweetie.

25 episodes of Hope Street, a Northern Irish crime drama.  McCusker plays Clint Dunwoody-Devine, "a local busker," who is married to the owner of the local pub.  A lady. 

It looks like Bohemian Rhapsody is all for McCusker, but it's such an iconic role, and he's from conservative Northern Ireland, so it's more than enough. 

More than enough cocks, too.  We don't even need this shot of someone who is probably not McCusker, getting busy.

The McCusker cock shots are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends