DISCERNING BRUTES: ELLIOT KNIGHT

“Our ability to feel will always be our greatest strength. It is our sensitivity and respect for life in all things that unites us and guides us towards a better tomorrow. For me, being vegan goes hand-in-hand with living as a compassionate human, which is something we should all be striving towards. To not disadvantage, to not judge, to not confine.”

-Elliot Knight, actor

I’ve always understood this as my standard of ‘masculinity’; to care for others as much as myself. To recognize that we are one and the same. It lives free of gender-norms or sexual preference or identity. Modern day masculinity is just as powerful, relevant and necessary as modern day femininity; they equal humanity, and whoever we are, we should not shy away from possessing as much of both of these as we possibly can.”

-Elliot Knight, actor

Elliot Knight grew up in Birmingham, England and always had a passion for writing and entertaining. Elliot has most recently guest starred in the new DC Universe Streaming series Titans as Don Hall aka ‘Dove’. He was a series regular on the CW series “Life Sentence”. Before that he was a series regular in the CBS drama, “American Gothic” and the hit ABC series “Once Upon A Time” as the iconic character Merlin. Elliot is vegan and he believes, as he said above, “being vegan goes hand-in-hand with living as a compassionate human”.

DISCERNING BRUTES is an ongoing series highlighting masculine-presenting vegans and asking them to offer insight, revision or critique about what it means to "be a man" today.