Stanley Tucci: It's OK for straight actors to play gay rol - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: ‘YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THAT’S THE WHOLE POT OF IT’
• STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’
• STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• STANLEY TUCCI WEIGHS ON BATE OVER STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘AN ACTOR IS AN ACTOR’

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared. ‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene. Stanley Tucci appeared on BBC Rad 4’s “Dert Island Discs” show and weighed on the bate over straight actors playg gay characters.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: ‘YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THAT’S THE WHOLE POT OF IT’

The Osr nomee, whose been married to Ey Blunt’s sister sce 2012, played gay rol “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) and “Supernova” (2020) and received cril acclaim for both performanc. “Obvly I believe that’s fe, ” Tucci said about straight actors takg gay rol. “I am always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk to me about ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ or they talk about ‘Supernova, ’ and they say that, ‘It was jt so betiful, ’ you know, ‘You did the right way.

As long as ’s beg done “the right way, ” Tucci said ’s fe for straight actors to play gay characters on screen. Tucci’s thoughts differ om that of Tom Hanks, who told The New York Tim Magaze last year that a straight actor uld not take on a gay role like the one he played Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philalphia.

” Hanks starred the film as a gay man wh HIV who is discrimated agast at work, and he won the Osr for bt actor thanks to his performance. One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man.

STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

We’re beyond that now, and I don’t thk people would accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy. Stanley Tucci tak no issue wh straight actors playg gay characters — as long as ’s done “the right way. “And I’m always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk about ‘The Devil Wears Prada, ’ when they talk about ‘Supernova, ’ and they say that was ‘jt so betiful.

Is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors. ” “It’s important that gay characters are portrayed as well-round and pletely human dividuals, ” add Parsons, who noted that “there are plenty of straight actors who have played gay characters brilliantly.

Grant qutned a 2019 terview wh the Sunday Tim how anyone uld still “jtify heterosexual actors playg gay characters. ”And “Glee” alum Darren Criss ma headl 2018 for sayg that he might stop playg gay characters, tellg Btle, “I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy takg a gay man’s role.

STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Shows and movi that st queer actors queer rol have been celebrated by fans, cludg Jasm Savoy Brown’s stg as a queer teen on Yellowjackets and as the Scream anchise’s first openly gay character.

”The aforementned 2020 holiday rom- Happit Season, for example, was directed by openly gay multi-hyphenate Clea DuVall and also featured out actrs Kristen Stewart one of the leadg rol. The 2020 Ryan Murphy-directed mil film The Prom was cricized wily for stg Jam Corn as a gay man. The actor received backlash om a slew of crics and on social media, llg his performance “gay-face” and “offensive.

This go to show that the issue is nuanced and plex: Jt bee a project do st some queer actors queer rol and has a queer person at the helm (Murphy is openly gay), that don’t mean ’s exempt om cricism or there to be staed and staable change, ’s sential to have LGBTQ+ people cisn-makg posns. Bee of that, she utns speakg absolut about straight people not playg queer rol, which might give journalists license to ask actors if they’re gay and put prsure on someone to e out before they’re ready.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

While homophob are by gettg mad at Tom Holland for havg a gay scene his current show The Crowd Room, they’re missg somethg important: he’s not the first Spir-Man actor to play gay. In fact, Holland is followg a long and proud tradn of Spir-Man actors playg are some prev tim that actors who have played Peter Parker have crossed over to the other si and played gay characters movi, TV, and on stage.

The first live-actn Spir-Man has played gay several tim his reer, both before and after playg Spir-Man. Maguire played gay aga 2008’s Tropic Thunr. In a fake trailer for an Osr-ba movie the film, Maguire plays himself, who is starrg a movie about two gay 18th Century monks lled Satan’s Alley.

Garfield, who played Parker the rebooted Spir-Man movi by Marc Webb, has actually gotten wispread cril acclaim for playg gay. In 2017, he started playg the role of Prr Walter, a gay man wh AIDS, the celebrated play Angels Ameri at the Natnal Theatre London.

STANLEY TUCCI WEIGHS ON BATE OVER STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘AN ACTOR IS AN ACTOR’

In The Crowd Room, Holland, who plays Spir-Man the Marvel Cematic Universe, plays a troubled young man named Danny Sullivan, who ms some heo crim, but also has gay sex. Homophob are plag that their beloved Spir-Man would do such a thg (the gay stuff, not the rap). Harris has played gay several tim, notably Unupled.