Christian LeBlanc Opens up About the Stggl of Livg as a Gay Man - Soaps In Depth

Contents:

• «MATT BOMER NO PUE SER CHRISTIAN GREY PORQUE GAY», DICE LA TORA ’50 SOMBRAS DE GREY’
• Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN
• 50 SHAS OF GREY MOVIE CAST: MATT BOMER IS TOO GAY TO PLAY CHRISTIAN GREY, SAYS BRET EASTON ELLIS
• FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?

«MATT BOMER NO PUE SER CHRISTIAN GREY PORQUE GAY», DICE LA TORA ’50 SOMBRAS DE GREY’

Grey se pone hecho una furia cuando Anastasia le pregunta nada más nocerse si gay. Él le recuerda el tremendo lvar la pregunta unas 300 págas más alante (“he querido darte unos azot s que me preguntaste si era gay”). «Matt Bomer no pue ser Christian Grey porque gay», dice la tora  ’50 Sombras De Grey’: E.

Jam quien uniba los actor elegidos para terpretar a s personaj, y creaba la polémi al cir lo siguiente: «Matt Bomer no el acuado para Christian Grey porque gay.

As the send of eight kids his large southern fay, LeBlanc revealed that he’s attend multiple terventns, lost his brother to AIDS when he was jt 25, and as a gay man, still suffers om homophobia and tolerance. “Not until after Stonewall did anyone take a gay man ser — they were sick people, ” he add.

Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN

“And I still live wh the legacy of that as a gay man.

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50 SHAS OF GREY MOVIE CAST: MATT BOMER IS TOO GAY TO PLAY CHRISTIAN GREY, SAYS BRET EASTON ELLIS

His sudn trashg of Bomer is also hypocril, as Ellis’ own sexual orientatn has been subject of bate throughout the years – wh the thor himself admtg he n’t m to eher beg gay or straight “for artistic reasons. ”However, those dwellg on the sexual orientatn of Ellis, Bomer or anybody else potentially volved the upg productn of Fifty Shas of Grey the film may be missg the pot, as currently there are other openly gay actors who play heterosexual rol (and vice versa) whout affectg their performanc. Two good exampl are Neil Patrick Harris, who is openly gay and plays a womanizer CBS’s How I Met Your Mother; and Jam Fran, who is heterosexual and played Harvey Milk’s boyiend G Vas Sant’s 2008 Milk – about the life of the first openly gay person to be elected to public office California, as a member of the San Francis Board of is unclear if Ellis was dropped as potential screenwrer for Fifty Shas bee of his public cricism of Bomer (which would mean producers are serly nsirg the star of Whe Collar as a probable st for Christian Grey), or if they jt got tired of Ellis tweetg csantly about his sire to wre the screenplay for the movie (and rackg up Twter followers and air time as a rult).

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.

FIFTY SHAS OF HOMOPHOBIA: WHO CAR IF THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS CHRISTIAN GREY IS GAY?

It's bee the public jt don't like him anymore, gay or straight. Neil Patrick Harris has ma a send reer out of beg a gay actor playg straight. Harris didn't e out as a gay man until 2006, two years later, and his revelatn only served to make the joke even cleverer, allowg Harold and Kumar wrers Jon Hurwz and Hayn Schlossenberg to go even further the next stallments.

By the third film they had Harris pretend to be gay orr to sleep wh a woman he's attracted to, but the joke works not jt bee the joke self funny, which is, but bee Harris is a great ic actor wh killer timg, which is why the Tony Awards won't get rid of him. In fact, many of them have ma reers out of playg versns of those same characters other rol -- pecially Will Art and Jason this do is hold queer actors Hollywood to an unfair and homophobic double standard, whether holdg them to unrealistic expectatns or askg (as Ellis has done) that they be "genuely to" the oppose sex, when we don't expect the same thg of straight actors gog gay. This don't leave queer actors a lot of optns other than playg one of the handful of queer characters that pop up movi every year -- rol they'll have to fight straight actors was the exact reason that Rupert Everett (who gaed mastream regnn for playg Julia Roberts' gay BFF My Bt Friend's Weddg) told The Guardian 2009 that g out killed his reer.