Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"
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- JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
- JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
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Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"ByNov 15, 2013 3:04 PMTagsJim Spellman/WireImageIn the 2011 movie Shame, Michael Fassbenr played a sex addict who— a moment of speratn—had an R-rated enunter wh another male the back of a gay bar.
The film was received well by crics, but Jam Fran has some issu wh —particularly how the Steve McQueen-helmed movie picts sex addictn and gay culture. ""And that scene where he's at his lowt pot and wants to f--k and go to a gay club, " he wr, "and 's picted like the seventh level of hell... I mean, go back to the horrible reprentatns of gays the '70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everythg dark and praved.
Fran, who played a gay character Milk, has long been an outspoken supporter of the LGBT muny.
JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
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One cric Jam Fran, however, blasted the film for what he saw as a poor reprentatn of the gay muny. In his review, Fran cricized the film’s pictn of the gay muny. In Shame, Fassbenr’s character pays a vis to a gay club, where sexual acts are beg performed.