13 Reasons Why We Love "13 Reasons Why" star Dylan Minnette. Hint: Reason #4 involves his bromance with Braedon LeMasters

#1. Dude has a physique

#2. He played a shy, sensitive "good boy."

Dylan was born on December 29, 1996 in Evansville, Indiana, and worked as a child model before moving to Los Angeles to concentrate on his acting. He had guest roles in Two and a Half Men, Drake & Josh, Prison Break, Grey's Anatomy, The Mentalist, and Supernatural.  

Saving Grace (2007-2010) starred Holly Hunter as a hard-drinking, one-night-stand pursuing police detective who is advised by God in the form of the tobacco-chawing Earl (plus she solves murders).  as the nephew of the police detective who finds God). Dylan appeared in 40 episodes as her nephew Clay, who received a number of shy, sensitive, "good boy" plotlines:

He has a Catholic confirmation.

He confronts Grace over her sinful conduct.

He joins the Police Explorers

He makes friends with the son of a death-row inmate (Malcolm David Kelley, recent photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, doing exactly what it looks like).

He worries that his father will accept an out-of-town job and move them away from Grace's paranormal shenanigans.

No indication of whether he's gay, but given that religious shows are usually homophobic, I'm going to guess no.

#3. He bullied a gay-coded heterosexual boy.

Let Me In (2010) about a 12-year old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who falls in love with a vampire (a girl, but a boy in the original Swedish Let the Right One In).  

Dylan plays the leader of a group of bullies that terrorize the boy, pushing him into the vampire romance.  I thought his bullying had a gay subtext.

Kodi's buns of steel are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

#4. He's got a gay-subtext bromance with buddy Braedon LeMasters.

 They're in a band called The Wallows, which performs in top-drawer venues like Whiskey A Go Go.  Their song "Pictures of Girls" tells us:

I find it hard to remember all the times I've tried to forget her

I am hangin' on to somethin' real, 'Cause pictures of girls are not for me, you see

Pictures of girls are not for me either, buddy.  

More after the break

#5. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox, sigh) was his Dad

In 2010, Jack, leader of a group of castaways on a bizarre Island in Lost, moves into a parallel world or a purgatory dream or something, where he has a teenage son.  Wacky adventures and child custody angst ensue. 

#6. Dylan has played sons in wacky parallel worlds twice. 

Awake (2012) starred Jason Isaacs as a detective (yes, another one; it's like 90% of the jobs on tv) who awakens after a traffic accident to hear that hs wife is dead, but his son Rex (Dylan) is alive.  But in another reality, his wife is alive and Rex is dead. It's like the entrees in a restaurant; choose on or the other, you can't have both. In both realities, there's a never ending stream of hostage crises, kidnappings, and murders. I can't tell if Rex is heterosexual or not.

#7. He played Hugh Jackman's son. 

Prisoners (2013): A "desperate father (Hugh Jackman) takes the law into his hands" to find two kidnapped girls, presumably his daughters, who look about six years old. Don't worry, there are a lot of detectives in the cast, too.  Dylan plays the father's teenage son, who has a girlfirend.

#8. He dated Jack Black's daughter.

Goosebumps (2015).  Zach (Dylan) teams up with the daughter of legendary children's author R.L. Stine (Jack Black) to fight the monsters accidentally unleased into their small town.  They, of course, fall in love.  Zach also has a male friend played by Ryan Lee, who may be gay in real life, but the character's name is "Champ."  No gay person on Earth has ever been named Champ.

#9. He had a terrible, horrible, no good day.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, etc. Day (2014). Terrible things happen not only to 14-year old Alexander (Eric Oxenbould), but his parents, the Girl of His Dreams (of course they fall in love), his older brother (Dylan), and bro's girlfriend.

#10. He's one of the 13 Reasons Why, in the series about high schoolers trying to figure out why their classmate committed suicide (there are 13 reasons).  Dylan plays Clay Jensen, the dead girl's boyfriend, who tries to find out who is responsible.  Later, he and his new girlfriend try to find out who murdered their evil classmate.  Don't get excited, Brandon Larracuente is not his boyfriend, he's a bro who encourages him to talk to the girl he has a crush on,

#11: He looks good in a suit.

Most recently Dylan appeared in four episodes of The Drop-Out, which has a misleading title: it's actually about a real-life person, "Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes," who dropped out of college to found a healthcare company based on fraudulent claims. It closed in 2018, and Holmes was convicted of fraud. 

You never refer to someone leaving college as a drop-out.  

Dylan plays Tyler Schultz, the real-life whistleblower, who is married to a woman.

#12 He posted an adult video.  Nice piece, dude

#13. He hangs out with guys a lot

Dylan's instagram has some photos of him in bed with a woman, but also about 300 photos of him hugging guys.  If you can't do bedroom stuff, hugging guys is the next best thing.

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