Frank Martin In ‘The Transporter’ Is Gay
Folks who are familiar with The Transporter movies might be a bit shocked to learn (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT) that Frank Martin (played by Jason Statham) has sex with a young Ukrainian girl named Valentina (played by Natalya Rudakova) in the latest installment of the franchise mainly because the act seems so out of character for Frank Martin. You see, according to Lou Letterier (who directed the first two Transporter movies), Frank is gay and always has been:
With Transporter 3 now in theatres, the director of the first two films is claiming the sex scenes between Transporter star Jason Statham and actress Natalya Rudakova in the latest installment are misleading — because the character Statham plays in the films is gay. Lou Letterier, who directed the first two films in the franchise, outed the character of Frank Martin in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “If you watch the movie and you know he’s gay, it becomes so much more fun. It’s so great — the first gay action movie hero!” He continued, “Action fans in general are pretty homophobic. You see these tough guys who say, ‘The Transporter, that’s such a great movie!’ If they only knew they’re really cheering for a new kind of action hero.” Letterier pointed to a scene in the second film in which a character played by model Amber Valetta makes a play for Martin, only to be rebuffed by the line “It’s because of who I am.” “That’s him coming out,” Letterier said. Though Letterier has yet to see the latest installment, which is directed by Oliver Megaton, he said he recently went back and watched the first films and realized they weren’t as gay as he had originally intended. “I was sick over the weekend and my 2 Transporters were on, so I watched them and in fact they aren’t that gay,” Leterrier wrote in an e-mail to the Times. “But it makes for fun movie legends.”
See … I knew there was a reason that I loved the Transporter movies so much. In Transporter 3, Valentina accuses Frank Martin of being “the gay” which he brutally rebuffs a couple of times … and then it is implied that couple have sex. I found that whole exchange really forced and not at all in character with the way Frank Martin usually operates in these films. To say that he is gay is also misleading … it is never really discussed and we never see Frank get romantic with anyone (except for this third movie and, as I said, we still don’t see anything happen). I quite love the idea of Frank Martin as a gay man … kickin’ ass as a bona fide action hero. It also puts all of those half-nekkid scenes of Jason Statham in fine context, I think. As I said the other day, I didn’t really love Transporter 3 … but I may have to get out my Transporter and Transporter 2 DVDs out for another look ;)
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December 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 am
Didn’t he have sex with the girl in the first movie ? In the bedroom of his neighbor’s house that they swam underwater to get to (only after I wrote that sentence out did I realize how crazy the scenario is) ?
I thought it was pretty well established from the first movie that he was straight ? Hmm….interesting. This feels like when JK Rowling announced Dumbledore was gay.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
That what i thought, the girl who he helped save her family. Im confused now.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
He definitely has sex with the girl in the first movie. He makes out with her on a table in the house they swam under water to get to. And then when they are in the detectives office the next day, she makes a reference to it. I really didn’t get or feel that Frank was gay in the first two movies.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Yes he did have sexual relations with that girl in the first movie. It didn’t really need to be in the movie at all though…so maybe his character is gay.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Well there are plenty of guys who have sex with women and then go and have sex with men! So maybe he is hiding is gayness because we live in a homophobic world and he is secretly running off to Canada to marry his man of 10 years because the US won’t allow it. Just kidding. It doesn’t matter to me anyways cause Jason is one hawt piece of ass!!
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
So when is Transporter 4 with teh hawt gay secks scene? That’s all we really want to know.
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
It says above that his character is gay….despite the alleged sex scene in the first movie. Bi-sexual perhaps? Better chances for all of us then!
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
oh daddy… icing on the cake :)
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I think that if the character were actually gay, they wouldn’t bother giving him heterosexual sex scenes. Yes, some gay men sleep with women IRL. But, like the writer cleans up dialogue, removing all the ums, ahs, and pauses to allow her reader to actually give a crap what the characters are saying, why would a writer of a gay character confuse things by adding in hetero sex. Methinks the director is one of the many men with a little crush on Mr. Statham. There’s nothing wrong with that!
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
anthony is the gay one but yes a gay action hero.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 4th, 2008 at 5:14 am
your mouth to gods ears…i could only wish that Jason was gay…that guy is a mans man…….being a bodybuilder myself i would love to tangle with that guy …F**k hes hot…
December 4th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Besides the sex scene in the first movie, if you watch the 2nd movie it’s very obvious that he has very strong romantic feelings for the mother of the boy he’s protecting. At the end of the movie he bringing her flowers at the hospital and you can tell he’s sad that the husband is back in the picture so he leaves. I don’t care one way or the other if the character is gay, but I think the director was just pissed he didn’t direct the 3rd movie! :)
December 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
It’s well established fact among fans of the first two movies that Frank is gay.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Def. not gay. There is no way that he was meant to be gay…if he was meant to play a gay character why would there be so many romantic settings with women…and I dont even think hes bi sexual…I just think he didnt want to have sex with her because “its just who he is” meaning his rules…I dont think he was all that attracted to the girl lol…I didnt feel the connection between them at all…maybe thats why he didnt want to hahaha. I know that she wasnt that attractive so maybe he just didnt want to…like his line “did it ever occur to you that Im just not in the mood”.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:44 am
The director is just saying that because he wants attention/controversy over his movies. Anyone could write a script and then later say “oh, he’s gay”, even if it wasn’t intended to be that way in the first place
December 6th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Frank Martin is one of the most good looking men around. Since people calim for his character in the films to be gay and everyone is so excited about a “gay” actioin hero, why hide the fact? Why not flaunt his character as being who he is? Have a first gay action movie as well as a gay sex scene…. Thatll be fun to watch….. Maybe paired against Christian Bale????