Kathy Bates on Taking on Third Lesbian Role in Tammy

Now that we know that Kathy Bates and Sandra Oh are playing a lesbian couple in the highly anticipated comedyTammy starring Melissa McCarthy, we can't WAIT for July 2, already.

This will be Bates third time playing gay. Her first lesbian role being Libby Holden in the loosely based on the Clintons comedy Primary Colors, then Bates played Gertrude Stein in Woody Allen's smash hit Midnight in Paris.

Though Bates has been a major hit in the LGBT community, she was not introduced to the gay community until college. Raised Methodist in Memphis, Bates didn’t have any direct contact with LGBT community members until in college.

“I really didn't know what gay was until I got to college, but I was really in love with two of the guys who were in the theater department and then I realized they were in love with each other,” Bates told PrideSource. “It was like, ‘Oh. F***,’ - excuse my language – ‘that just cut my opportunities in half here. It's hard enough to find a guy, and now that means there's 50 percent less!’”

Regarding her chemistry with the wildly talented Oh, Bates told PrideSource, "I do know that I'm just absolutely in love with Sandra, and let me just say that she really brought our relationship to bloom. She brought a lot of love and warmth, and it was her idea to have wedding rings - because of course! - which I hadn't thought about, and also, really, to think that our relationship is the healthiest relationship in the movie."

About her role in “Tammy,” Bates laughed about the idea of basing her character off any lesbians she knows. She said, “How do you behave lesbian?” She adds that people are people regardless of sexual orientation and that she hopes to see the importance of sexual orientation disappear in her lifetime.