As Matt Bomer’s legns of fans — 89,391 had signed a petn askg for him to star “Fifty Shas of Grey” — are prottg the news that Irish actor Jamie Dornan will play Christian Grey, brgs up some tertg qutns about gay polics Hollywood.
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FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?
Maybe I'm an ialist, but when I first heard that Bret Easton Ellis had taken to Twter to personally embargo openly gay actor Matt Bomer om beg st as Christian Grey Fifty Shas of Grey, the film adaptatn of E. After the uproar two years ago, when Newsweek wrer Ram Setooh (himself a gay man) claimed that Sean Hay was too "queeny" to play a straight man Promis, Promis, I didn't thk someone would so publicly "go there" aga. But this isn't for the reason you'd expect, and the actual reason disprov Setooh's (and Ellis') homophobic views on the subject: Dpe wi speculatn that Tom Cise is "hidg somethg, " dienc don't seem to re much whether or not Cise is a gay man; stead, they re that he's "crazy, " as the fervor over his relign and marriage have domated his late reer.