The "Transporter" Was Gay

For those of you who are fans of the 'Transporter" films, you may not have known that the character of Frank Martin (played by Jason Statham) was gay - that was until the third installment.

Louis Leterrier, the director of “Transporter 2” (and also credited as "artistic director" of the first “Transporter”) said he created a gay subtext for the character so as to avoid making a “Steven Seagal kind of movie.”

"If you watch the movie and you know he's gay, it becomes so much more fun," Leterrier said then. "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.”

And to drive his point home, he mentioned a scene in “Transporter 2” in which a drug czar's wife, played by Amber Valletta, makes romantic overtures toward the Transporter. Martin rebuffs her, explaining, "It's because of who I am."

Letterrier's take on that? “That's him coming out!”

How you doin' and Alllllrrrrriiiight.

But, alas,  Leterrier didn't relay this to Oliver Megaton, director of "Transpoter 3" who made Martin straight.