CHEYENNE JACKSON was breezy and relaxed when he spoke to us this fall at his home in the L.A. suburb of Granada Hills. Things seemed a lot lighter then — it was just a few weeks before his costar in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, beloved gay icon Leslie Jordan, would die suddenly after a medical emergency that preceded a car accident.
Jackson was so distraught by his friend’s passing he declined to speak to us for a follow-up interview. His role on — where he plays Kat’s buddy, Max — will continue following now in its third season, is the latest career milestone for Jackson, who has been everything from a Broadway draw (, ) to a major motion picture star (, playing 9/11 hero Mark Bingham) to a Ryan Murphy darling ( and ), with a recent Daytime Emmy nomination (for the Netflix series ) under his belt.
