After the buzz over the wonrful film Brokeback Mounta, Brad Pt said recently that he would love to add a gay character to his rume. Bee he feels would be an illumatg experience for
Contents:
- BRAD PT FALLY PLAYS GAY
- BRAD PT, LEONARDO DICAPR AND MATT DAMON TURNED DOWN GAY LOVE STORY 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
- BRAD PT ON GAY MARRIAGE, SMOKG POT AND 'REAL LOVE'
- WATCH: BRAD PT STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE THRILLER PRODUCED BY RICK SANTOM
- BRAD AND ANGELA GETTG MARRIED IS A SLAP THE FACE TO GAY AMERINS
BRAD PT FALLY PLAYS GAY
Rice ially exprsed outrage at the stg choic, fdg the two boyish, all-Amerin film stars too rough for the homoerotic overton of the tale. Such is but one of the qutns posed by Brad Pt’s recent Brish GQ ver, which has him all dolled up and lookg like a hly-ceased gay elr.
Needls to say, the gays aren’t happy. It’s givg that one straight boy who wants to be gay bee ’s sudnly “ol. After the buzz over the wonrful film Brokeback Mounta, Brad Pt said recently that he would love to add a gay character to his rume.
”Brad knows would be seen as shockg to take on a gay role bee he's seen as such a heart-throb. Now I am all for actors takg on challengg rol bee they stumble upon somethg they fd excg, but as a source prevly told the Sun Newspaper, ” Brad has asked his people to fd him a script to play a gay man". "Brokeback Mounta" won three Osrs 2006, was robbed of the award for bt picture (by "Crash") and earned nomatns for s young stars Heath Ledger and Jake before Ang Lee took over as director of the film, G Van Sant had the job as he toiled unsuccsfully, tryg to pull "Brokeback Mounta" Sant told IndieWire his project stalled bee he uldn't get major, A-list actors like Brad Pt, Leonardo DiCapr and Matt Damon to star as gay lovers the drama.
BRAD PT, LEONARDO DICAPR AND MATT DAMON TURNED DOWN GAY LOVE STORY 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'
"Would bother me if a child of me turns out to be gay? They say gay marriage s fai and hurts kids.
Well, I've had the privilege of seeg my gay iends beg parents and watchg their kids grow up a lovg environment. Bragman reprented actor Isaiah Washgton after Washgton faced public cricism for reportedly llg his Grey’s Anatomy -star, gay actor T.
BRAD PT ON GAY MARRIAGE, SMOKG POT AND 'REAL LOVE'
Bragman, who’s legally married to the prizewng horse traer Chuck O’Donnell, handl the terview wh an easy nfince: His parents were “tolerant and acceptg” when he me out of the closet his 20s; Proposn 8 was “extremely paful”; gays and lbians need to “ll people on their sh. Dreifs, a youthful-lookg 30, asks Bragman if he has had any “personal experienc” wh homophobia. Sce 1991, when Bragman helped actor Dick Sargent — who starred oppose Elizabeth Montgomery as the send Darr, the irascible but lovg hband the hugely popular 1960s and ’70s fay show Bewched — e out to a somewhat stunned Amerin public on Entertament Tonight, the publicist has assisted numero gay and lbian celebri navigatg this tricky and, for s, risky terra.
“What [Howard] was really good at, ” says Amaechi, who, 2007, me out as the first openly gay pro basketball player but didn’t want to be turned to a poster boy for the gay-rights movement, “was that he ma sure I stayed thentic to myself. Anrson, who wanted to make a statement to the entertament dtry that gay actors n play straight leadg-man rol, says, “Howard helped me foc on the msage a way that I wanted to liver . He is not merely helpg gay actors to form sensible plans for gog public.
The gay gu of Hollywood, Bragman is fact facg down the U.
WATCH: BRAD PT STARS IN GAY MARRIAGE THRILLER PRODUCED BY RICK SANTOM
Film dtry on s sistence that gay actors rema the closet.
BRAD AND ANGELA GETTG MARRIED IS A SLAP THE FACE TO GAY AMERINS
“As far as I know, ” says Dale Reynolds, a Los Angel–based actor and journalist who found a gay actors support group the late 1970s, “he’s the only one dog this. Many gay actors aren’t signg on for Bragman’s servic, which Jason Stuart, chair of the Screen Actors Guild Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Commtee, believ is a ltle nuts. The publicist hasn’t brought out an A-list, gay male actor — yet.
But Bragman says that day is g, and after the first superstar cis to reveal himself, a fundamental shift Amerin acceptance of gay leadg men may not be far behd. His recent wily accepted and posively reviewed hostg of the Emmys seemed almost like a globally televised msage om one si of Hollywood to another: It’s okay to st leadg men who are gay, so get over , stud heads. Public-opn surveys reveal that Amerins’ acceptance of gays and lbians has dramatilly creased sce the 1970s.
Adolcent boys and girls are g out durg middle school such plac as ral Arkansas and Texas, far om the gay urban enclav of San Francis, Wt Hollywood and New York Cy. Its power players thk Amerins n’t handle gay actors straight–leadg man rol. Their greatt fear is not some sort of social upheaval but that dienc would be unfortable seeg a known gay actor like Cheyenne Jackson kissg or fondlg Kate Wslet, and box-office earngs would nose-dive.