Jim Carrey is htg the media circu to promote his new film "I Love You, Phillip Morris," a film which his character is gay. The topic me up durg Carrey's recent appearance on "The Late Show wh David Letterman," when Letterman asked, "Do you worry about your image as a heterosexual leadg man playg a homosexual?" Carrey's rponse: "We haven't grown at all, have we? We're still chi
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- JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR
- JIM CARREY'S GAY PRISON LOVE STORY: OSR UNRDOG?
JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR
If we expect prison to rehabilate offenrs or if we expect mat to retegrate to society once they have done their time, the ls broken they are when they fally e out, the easier that will Jay Rsell is a gay, four-time prison pee, nman and thief, currently servg a 144-year prison sentence for nonvlent crime. Jim Carrey is htg the media circu to promote his new film "I Love You, Phillip Morris, " a film which his character is gay. The topic me up durg Carrey's recent appearance on "The Late Show wh David Letterman, " when Letterman asked, "Do you worry about your image as a heterosexual leadg man playg a homosexual?
23, 2010, 5:09 PM UTCJim Carrey is htg the media circu to promote his new film "I Love You, Phillip Morris, " a film which his character is gay.
A gay prison edy/drama wh two actors who've won much praise but few major awards: The stud may as well have slapped a "HEY OSCAR COMMITTEE! But will the film's explic pictn of gay sex be too much for some of the film dtry's ele -- and crics, and viewers -- to handle?
JIM CARREY'S GAY PRISON LOVE STORY: OSR UNRDOG?
'"Raw, gay sex on the one hand, sweet, poignant tale on the other: Beneath the superficially explic scen, this film is about, as s tle says, love.
Based on the te story of legendary n man Steven Jay Rsell (Carrey's character), "I Love You Phillip Morris" follows Steven as he leav his wife, embrac his homosexualy, lnch myriad money-makg schem and worms his way and out of the Texas prison system, where he meets Phillip Morris (McGregor's character, no relatn to the tobac giant) -- a man he'll follow to the ends of the tim, there's screwball edy. ' Gay people have been portrayed as satly and as martyrs any number of films. I thk 's time for to see another facet of a gay character on the big screen.
""I Love You Phillip Morris" hasn't generated the buzz that other award-earng films wh gay protagonists have, like the Osr-wng "Milk" and "Brokeback Mounta. " Entertament Weekly raved, "'I Love You Phillip Morris' pulls off gen schem of s own: It dramatiz a highly unual relatnship -- that's an unrstatement -- between two men which homosexual love and sex, arntly enacted on screen a fely tuned tour--force terplay between two movie stars, is jt another piece of the story.