Gordon Thomson, who played twisted Adam Carrington, on the original Dynasty, has no love for the upcoming CW reboot, calling it “total shit, an abomination” in a recent interview with The Daily Beast.

“Why call it Dynasty? It’s nothing to do with Dynasty at all. It’s insulting." the 72-year-old actor says. "If the afterlife exists—it doesn’t, but if it did—Aaron [Spelling] would be having major fits in his grave. And the audience the CW is aiming for is going to think it’s shit because it is such shit that a cretinous 6-year-old would not be interested. It’s abominable.”

In the DB profile Thomson opens up about being gay for the first time. Born in Ottawa in 1945, Thomson admits he dealt with a lot of homophobia in his formative years, some of it internalized.

"It was not until I was nearly 30 that [homosexuality] stopped being classified as a mental illness in the U.S. So you’re dealing with that. And the shame, the breathtaking lack of self-esteem, has only just begun to seep out of my soul.”

After Dynasty, Thomson starred on Santa Barbara, and continues to act today. But he was part of the generation of gay entertainers who kept their sexuality a closely guarded secret. And he still seems unsettled by the new openness in Hollywood, suggesting its not available to everyone.

Leading-man types, he says, are "a source of fantasy."

"Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are wonderful people, but pardon me, how many audience members fantasize about fucking either one of them? Really. It had a lot to do with what you looked like, I’m afraid."

He's also candid about not liking how the '80s soap handled Steven Carrington, his on-screen brother and the show's resident gay. (Steven is comfortably out in the reboot, and Sammie Jo is a man.)

“I thought it was bullshit,” Thomson says. “At the time, the AIDS crisis had a lot to do with pressure on the network. I know that Al Corley quit because he felt they were not allowing him to play the part honestly. And they weren’t."

Steven flip-flopped between straight and gay over the show's nine seasons, and barely had more than a firm handshake with another man.

“It was appallingly handled," says Thomson. "They opened a can of worms and weren’t true to it, and they could have been. They had good actors playing the parts. It was a big shame. I’m very sorry.”