Actress Lisa Kudrow believes gay men
are biologically “superhuman.”
The 51-year-old Kudrow, who is best
known for playing Phoebe Buffay on the NBC sitcom Friends,
reprises her role as a D-lister next month in the second season of
HBO's The Comeback.
In The Comeback, which was
canceled in 2005, Kudrow plays sitcom actress Valerie Cherish, the
star of a fictional reality show also called The Comeback.
In an interview for Michigan gay weekly
Pride
Source, Kudrow was asked: “Are you as immersed in the gay
community as your career would lead us to believe?”
“Yes and no,” she answered. “The
people I work with are gay. I don't know who I'm going to offend by
leaving them out, but I need to say that I think gay men are superior
beings in my mind. I do believe that.”
When asked to explain, she said: “It's
all so tricky. I studied biology and the brains are anatomically
different. They just are. There's a stronger connection with the
corpus callosum [in gay men]. The two sides of the brain communicate
better than a straight man's, and I think that has to be really
important. They're not women – they're still men – and women
also have thicker corpus callosums, so I think it's the combination
of those qualities that makes them like a superhuman to me.”
The
Comeback makes its comeback on Sunday, November 9.