‘Halston’ Creator: Ewan McGregor Was All for Filmg Gay Sex Scen – IndieWire

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• EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH
• EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
• ‘HALSTON’ CREATOR SAYS EWAN MCGREGOR WAS ALL FOR FILMG GAY SEX SCEN
• EWAN MCGREGOR IS CATCHG HEAT FOR PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER. SHOULD HE BE?
• EWAN MCGREGOR GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 78 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• EWAN MCGREGOR TALKS TO OUT MAGAZE ABOUT HIS GAY ROL: “I LIKE KISSG BOYS ON SCREEN”
• EWAN MCGREGOR ON BETY AND THE BEAST GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY: 'IT'S 2017, FOR F--- SAKE'
• IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH

The 50-year-old Star Wars actor, who will star the upg Halston TV seri produced by Ryan Murphy as the fashn signer, spoke about playg gay spe beg straight an terview wh THR. Straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award.

“If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role. In a recent terview wh The Hollywood Reporter, the longtime actor known for his inic parts tl like Star Wars and Traspottg and who is portrayg legendary gay, Amerin fashn signer Roy Halston Frowick the upg Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix seri Halston, was asked to weigh on current cultural discsns about non-queer actors takg on queer rol, pecially sce LGBTQ+ actors do not get as many opportuni or cril acclaim as their straight unterparts. \u201c"Straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award.

1568921205When Emmy wner and Pose star Billy Porter's famo words om a 2019 THR roundtable me up about how straight men always get awards whenever they play gay, Ewan even seemed to agree wh the sentiment, sayg, "I haven't walked Billy Porter's sho I don't know what 's like to lose out parts when you might feel 's to do wh your sexualy.

EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS

"Ultimately though, McGregor took the role of the openly-gay fashn in who passed away om AIDS-related plitns back 1990, sayg there was more to Halston's life than his sexualy that he wanted to be able to explore and portray on-screen. "If had been a story about Halston's sexualy more, then maybe 's right that gay actors should play that role, " he told THR. As part of the actor’s ver story for The Hollywood Reporter, the publitn reports that “McGregor was ncerned that takg on a gay in like Halston might rult a backlash.

” McGregor has played gay characters throughout his reer (see “I Love You Phillip Morris” for starters), but there’s a more heightened awarens the days about straight actors tacklg queer rol. “If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role, ” McGregor add, explag why he felt fortable takg on a gay role “Halston” specifilly. Sexualy - Gay or Nay.

‘HALSTON’ CREATOR SAYS EWAN MCGREGOR WAS ALL FOR FILMG GAY SEX SCEN

Correct our wiki/b - is he not gay or straight or of different herage? Unr Ryan Murphy’s producer guidance at Netflix, alongsi Killer Films’ Christe Vachon, “Halston” isn’t aaid to swg big the openg episo, showg some very cheeky and primal gay sex wh the first 10 mut. Sttish actor Ewan McGregor failed to stop actg out his homosexual sex.

EWAN MCGREGOR IS CATCHG HEAT FOR PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER. SHOULD HE BE?

homosexual screen sex went on longer than expected - but he adms Bale hasn't. I hadn't done gay perative sex before, so I'm standg behd. Should gay rol be rerved solely for gay actors?

Ewan McGregor addrsed the topic a recent terview wh The Hollywood Reporter, fendg his cisn to play gay signer Halston an upg Netflix seri.

EWAN MCGREGOR GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 78 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

In fense of his cisn to take the role, he rpond to a 2019 ment om Billy Porter suggtg that straight actors should stop playg gay characters. “Straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award.

“If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role, ” he explaed. Porter is absolutely rrect that there are untls gay actors who get typest or miss out on rol due to their sexualy, so don’t feel right for a straight actor to waltz and take one of the few rol that Hollywood actually mak available to openly gay performers. For some reason, stg directors don’t ever seem to be worried about straight actors’ abili to “pass” as gay, but gay actors dng for heterosexual rol nstantly face extra scty and prejudice over whether they’ll be “believable” as a straight character.

EWAN MCGREGOR TALKS TO OUT MAGAZE ABOUT HIS GAY ROL: “I LIKE KISSG BOYS ON SCREEN”

It’s a slippery slope; are we then supposed to say that gay actors n only play gay characters? We should stop short of makg any sort of hard-and-fast le, but reprentatn matters, and until there’s more space Hollywood for openly LGBTQ actors, straight actors should nsir the implitns of takg the already-limed number of rol that are available to gay performers.

EWAN MCGREGOR ON BETY AND THE BEAST GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY: 'IT'S 2017, FOR F--- SAKE'

The sooner that Hollywood normaliz gay actors playg straight characters, the sooner this ceas to be a discsn at all.

IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

) Although I have not verified this claim, would not surprise me the least if the ventors of the Inter were motivated, at least part, by their urgent need to make their trite, risqué theori about the star formatns The Ln Kg known the world this proud legacy md, 's perhaps unsurprisg that a mor ntroversy has epted over the cln of a "gay moment" the live-actn Bety and the Beast remake, apparently volvg Gaston's sikick LeFou. )Ewan McGregor, who appears the film as the plucky nlabra Lumière, has apparently had enough of this nonsense, and when The Late Show's Stephen Colbert brought up all the homophobic hand-wrgg on Monday night, McGregor was ready.

I thk Rsia—McGREGOR, GRINNING: There's a lot of gay sex . There's a lot of gay sex this.