Supernova Explos Wh Pri Events This Month! – Seattle Gay Scene

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• SUPERNOVA RAIS THE QUTN: WHEN IS IT OKAY FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY?
• ‘SUPERNOVA’, EL DRAMA GAY COL FIRTH Y STANLEY TUCCI QUE HA TRIUNFADO EN SAN SEBASTIáN
• 'SUPERNOVA' TRAILER HAS COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI AS GAY COUPLE ON BRK OF CRISIS

SUPERNOVA RAIS THE QUTN: WHEN IS IT OKAY FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY?

Starrg Col Firth and Stanley Tucci, the film’s sensive portrayal of a gay uple who road trip to vis fay the English untrysi — perhaps for the fal time, as they stare down an end-of-life cisn — has been met wh wispread qutn of whether straight actors should still be playg queer, here the send of the 21st century, would seem to have an obv answer. Of urse, both of them are straight but have been adored for playg gay before — Tucci The Devil Wears Prada and Firth A Sgle Man, two movi that are fively gay non. What’s tertg to me (and even somewhat rehg) is that there’s no particular reference to their characters’ sexualy Supernova; ’s not a movie about beg gay but the love between two people.

At this pot, if we’re gog to accept and appreciate straight actors gay rol, I thk the story beg told matters. This isn’t a film about “g out” or the stggl of beg gay, and th, there is ls of a need for that “lived experience” to provi thenticy. Supernova is about two agg gay men who are ntendg wh the sad realy that one of them is dyg, and both actors do tremendoly ldable work.

‘SUPERNOVA’, EL DRAMA GAY COL FIRTH Y STANLEY TUCCI QUE HA TRIUNFADO EN SAN SEBASTIáN

Dpe their tremendo performanc, do sadn me to nsir how much bon cred they’ll get for “playg gay, ” while so many queer actors n’t even get a llback, let alone awards attentn. Addnally, unlike the characters Supernova, the role of Barry Glickman is all about his queerns: not only is he an adult still reelg om the trma he faced om his parents for beg gay, but his character is liberately wrten as sassy and the time of s release, I saw a lot of plats about the fact that Brooks Ashmanskas — the openly gay, Tony-nomated, Broadway origator of the role — wasn’t even offered the part. As a gay man himself, Ryan Murphy should be held rponsible for ever even nsirg Corn for the role.

Naveen: Speakg of Murphy and his ual spects, Darren Criss said he would no longer play gay after starrg as Versace killer Andrew Cunanan Amerin Crime Story, for which he won an Emmy and a Goln Globe. I thk ’s important to differentiate trans inty as a profound lived experience, and regnize that a cis actor playg trans is different than a straight actor playg gay. Tre have not been maligned, margalized, or erased om mastream media om time immemorial; trans people have, so let’s keep their narrativ out of her last thg I’ll add about straight actors playg gay is that tentn and executn matter — a lot.

Both are pretty appallg Viggo Mortensen’s filmmakg but Fallg (out Febary 5), which he plays the gay son of an abrasive, foul-mouthed bigot. His dacy to wre, direct, and star a movie about a gay character is pretty astoundg.

'SUPERNOVA' TRAILER HAS COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI AS GAY COUPLE ON BRK OF CRISIS

In the se of The Prom, however, I do believe that Murphy, as an Indiana-born gay man who’s been very forthg about his history wh bullyg and ostracizatn, had a personal vtment the subject matter. Siarly, as a gay man, I thk Guadagno was personally drawn to Call Me By Your Name, but unlike Murphy, I thk he st Chalamet bee he was phenomenal and Armie Hammer bee he exud that natural aloofns that ma Oliver such a pellg love tert on the page. Do this mean that Macqueen uldn’t have looked harr to fd gay actors?

I’d go as far as to say ’s a reer-bt for Tucci — and as great as would feel to be able to say that about a gay actor, the realy is far more plited. Stanley Tucci and Col Firth spent a lot of time together filmg Supernova England's Lake District, a mountao regn ma famo by Romantic poets like William after a full day of filmg the story of Tker (Tucci) and Sam (Firth), a gay uple grapplg wh Tker's mentia diagnosis while on a road trip through the untrysi, the pair sought each other out.

Notwhstandg the power of the film's subject matter and performanc, Supernova out a time when some might prott the stg of two straight men as a gay uple. Jam Corn, particular, was slammed for his portrayal of a gay character The Prom, a flamboyant pictn that was lambasted as "gayface" by and Tucci, both 60, have been the entertament dtry for s -- long enough to remember that was once taboo for any actor to take an LGBTQ+ role. Both have also played gay rol before, to acclaim.