"But I know for him, I think a hundred percent he needs to be shown it's okay. "I think he would also want to dip his toe in depending on who that is," he laughed. "We're not even that far apart in age, but I think there's a little bit of a jealousy where I'm like, wow, this is what society could have been if I was younger or what I could have been if the world was like this." (Photo: CBS)Īdmitting that's what his character would most certainly be feeling if a situation like that came about, he teases it would have its exceptions, though. "It's really interesting not to get too off-topic or too deep on it, but I grew up and didn't come out until I was like late in my teens, early twenties and the way I just did this project with a bunch of younger actors from a younger generation and the way they approach sexuality, the way I listen to them talk about acceptance and things like that - feels so much more progressive than what it was, especially when I was a teen," he said.
When asked how Isaac could react to seeing a gay or lesbian individual or couple being so free, Jones admits his character might be in a "mixture of awe and jealousy" over the revelation. "I hope that ultimately is his journey - that he gets to find out who he is, and maybe that's a chance for him to move on."Īs Ghosts explores many of the characters' backstories, one thing that has been evident is how Isaac has not come face-to-face with an individual from the LGBTQ community in Sam and Jay's house. You can't keep running from who you actually are," he said. "I think he's slowly coming to terms with. "I think it's him also being the person he wanted to be and knowing that there was a world, which he would've been the perfect person that somebody would've written books about and it would've been amazing, and it could have been the absolute greatest life somebody could have had."īelieving that Isaac not confronting his own identity is a significant obstacle to his moving on, Jones says it's a progression for the soldier, who had big dreams but tragically died of dysentery two weeks after the siege of Fort Ticonderoga. I think he says at one point he is literally a footnote in history," Jones told PopCulture.
But he was always just on the sideline of history and so forth. I think not just as a statesman who wanted to be one of the founding fathers of this country. "I really feel that Isaac is somebody who had an idea of who he wanted to be.
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