Stanley Tucci Weighed on Whether Straight Actors Should Play Gay Rol

Contents:

• WHY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA IS A GAY CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE HAS 'DIFFICULTY' WH ARGUMENT THAT GAY CHARACTERS SHOULD ONLY BE PLAYED BY LGBTQ ACTORS
• STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY, ‘THAT’S THE WHOLE POT’
• STANLEY TUCCI DEFENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: “YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE”

WHY THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA IS A GAY CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE

But what is about this film, birthed at the height of the schmaltzy rom- (The Holiday, Failure to Lnch, and John Tucker Mt Die are ntemporari), that has kept relevant and a wellsprg for mem and ter humor, pecially gay pockets of social media, after all the years?

In what is known today as the gay Gettysburg Addrs, Pritly drs Andy down a lengthy monologue about the lor celean.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE HAS 'DIFFICULTY' WH ARGUMENT THAT GAY CHARACTERS SHOULD ONLY BE PLAYED BY LGBTQ ACTORS

She don’t raise her voice even once, but manag to wipe Andy off the ’s journey om “umpy” (Pritly’s word) assistant to glamoro fashnista no doubt mirrors the gay bourgeois narrative, where one exacts revenge on their bulli and society at large by beg that girl as an adult. To be well-drsed, rich, and pletely severed om one’s emotns is a power fantasy for gay urse, on closer spectn, much of The Devil Wears Prada is a portrayal of straight up abe.

But this behavr is all but fetishized pockets of the gay ter.

STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Criqu asi, Prada has earned s place gay meme non and the nostalgia pantheon. Nigel, the gay art director, is the only important man.

A gay man and feme women work for a dictatorial, mascule Miranda. Read Next | Ida Menzel: Stuff Your Stockg Wh This Gay-Beloved Diva.

It’s worth notg that popular gay edian and Sex and the Cy star Mar Cantone has participated workshops of the piece. So we expect he’s the nng for the role of Nigel, the gay character memorably played by Stanley Tucci. They then articulate some visn of a fashn dtry prised entirely of skny girls stiletto heels, tty gay men, and Wtour-ish boss wh ice picks for hearts.

STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY, ‘THAT’S THE WHOLE POT’

Stanley Tucci shared his opn on straight actors playg gay characters on "CBS Sunday Morng. Tucci said he had "difficulty" wh the ia that only gay actors should play LGBTQ characters.

Tucci has played gay characters several films, cludg "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Burlque. The film centers on a middle-aged gay uple who travel across England an old RV after Tucci's character is diagnosed wh young onset mentia. "Havg played a number of gay characters, you want to do so that 's, as you do wh any character, you jt want to be tthful to , " said Tucci, who is married to Ey Blunt's sister, Felicy.

STANLEY TUCCI DEFENDS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: “YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE”

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I thk what we need to do, we need to give more gay actors opportuni.

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