It looks like USA Network’s “characters” are a casual crew.
On Tuesday, ”White Collar’s” Willie Garson, “Burn Notice’s” Coby Bell and “Psych’s” Timothy Omundson made an appearance at Farragut Square to help promote the television network’s Characters Unite public service program. February had been dubbed Characters Unite Month, and so reps for the network brought a pop-up t-shirt decorating stand and photo booth to downtown D.C. hoping that people passing by would help spread their message of tolerance with the enticement of a free American Apparel tee.
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The dressed down Garson simply hung out with the crowd. “I imagine this guy’s a government official,” pointing out D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, as the much more dressed up city official arrived.
He then turned to the topic at hand. “I don’t understand how we in 2012 are still having these conversations about discrimination and racism and homophobia and hate, it’s just beyond comprehension to me,” Garson said, also pointing out that some of the current political rhetoric doesn’t help. “There are certainly political figures who make me feel that they hate everything about me, and I’m just as much of a patriot and an American as they are,” Garson said.
And while Garson was in Washington on behalf of USA, he also discussed with us his much more famous role — playing Carrie Bradshaw’s gay best friend Stanford Blatch on “Sex and the City.” “I just played him as a guy who happened to be that sexual preference, it wasn’t a thing, and the show made it that it was nothing, that it was just another friend, and whatever — and I think that’s really important” he said. “TV, for as much garbage as we get from the media sometimes, we really do step up to the plate.”
