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There’s a fine line between queerbaiting and respectfully acknowledging a same-sex ship, and Pacific Rim actor Charlie Day just trod that line like a pro.

At the Pacific Rim: Uprising premiere, Charlie Day explained how his character Newton Geiszler fared in the years between movies. “He’s been separated from Hermann Gottlieb, so he’s kind of not himself, he has no one keeping him real. He misses the man that he’s in love with.”

“It sounds like you ship it, like half the internet,” said the interviewer.

“People have been shipping it, but I think they’re totally right,” Day said. “It completely informs the character. I honestly was thinking about it that way when I was acting through those scenes, and it’s so much more interesting. So thank you to the fans for writing along with the writers.”

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Charlie Day says slash fanfic informed his performance in ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’