Yes, Abtahi could’ve been more expressive and convincing, but they did a good job. In the first take, everyone who attempted the scene was straight, including actors Omid Abtahi and Mousa Kraish, who play a mild-mannered Omani salesman and the bearded, hung-as-fuck djinn - one of a group of supernatural entities who appear in the Koran. “So you guys need to go back and figure out where holes are.” “I was like, ‘OK, unless he has a 12-inch, candy-cane cock and can fuck around corners, his dick’s not getting in him,’” Fuller told Vulture. Everyone went crazy over its carnality and cock shots.ĭepicting one of the most erotic scenes from Gaiman’s novel could only be done by gay director Bryan Fuller, who demanded a reshoot after the original take. The epic gay sex scene in the show’s third episode, “Head Full of Snow,” set tongues wagging on social media immediately. The series, based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, depicts supernatural beings of all faiths living in the gritty real world - working, thieving, and fucking mortals. American Gods on Starz is hell-bent on shattering our mythologies.
