“We wanted to make sure that it was undeniably beautiful for even those who were uncomfortable with same-sex romance,” said Fuller during the moderated Q&A, which, in addition to Gaiman, also included Kraish and Abtahi. Showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller took extreme care with this strange yet tender moment, as they adapted Gaiman’s seemingly unadaptable 2001 novel American Gods, which is about feuding deities who live among men. It begins with full-frontal male nudity, and then the men are shown thrusting in and out of each other, first on a bed and then in a faraway desert - and yes, there is an “ejaculation of flames.” The British author was referring to a scene from the upcoming episode “Head Full of Snow.” In what might be one of the most explicit gay sex scenes ever shown on television, Salim (Omid Abtahi), a Muslim man from Oman, and the Jinn (Mousa Kraish), a fiery-eyed genie disguised as a taxi driver, make love in a New York hotel room. “I’m going, ‘This is beautifully written in the script. BEVERLY HILLS - “I remember when they sent me the script describing somebody being filled by an ejaculation of flames,’” Neil Gaiman recalled late Wednesday night during a panel for the Starz series American Gods.
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