Ewan McGregor Explas Why He Took on Gay ‘Halston’ Role Dpe Backlash Concerns

Contents:

• ‘HALSTON’ CREATOR SAYS EWAN MCGREGOR WAS ALL FOR FILMG GAY SEX SCEN
• EWAN MCGREGOR SLAMS BETY AND THE BEAST ‘GAY SCENE’ NTROVERSY
• EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH
• EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
• JIM CARREY-EWAN MCGREGOR GAY LOVE SCENE RELEASED ONLE
• EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
• EWAN MCGREGOR JOKGLY REVEALS BETY AND THE BEAST’S SECRET: “THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX”“IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR ALABAMA, YOU SHOULD NOT GO AND SEE THIS FILM. WHAT WOULD J THK?”BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 14, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEEWAN MCGREGOR AND IAN MCKELLEN ARE LEANG ALL THE WAY TO THE UPROAR SURROUNDG THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST. AFTER DIRECTOR BILL CONDON REVEALED THAT THE CHARACTER LEFOU (PLAYED BY JOSH GAD) IS GAY THE FILM, AND THAT HIS SEXUALY FIGUR TO A PARTICULAR SCENE, MANY CHEERED DISNEY FOR BEG PROGRSIVE—WHILE MORE NSERVATIVE FANS PLAC LIKE ALABAMA AND MALAYSIA ARE TURNG THEIR BACKS ON THE FILM. NO MATTER; MCGREGOR AND MCKELLEN ABSOLUTELY DO NOT MCCARE WHAT THEY THK.ON MONDAY NIGHT, STEPHEN COLBERT ASKED MCGREGOR, WHO VOIC THE ROLE OF LUMIèRE, ABOUT THE NTROVERSY.“THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX ,” MCGREGOR JOK. “THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX THIS RTOON. IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR ALABAMA, YOU SHOULD NOT GO AND SEE THIS FILM. WHAT WOULD J THK?”AN ALABAMA THEATER RECENTLY SAID THAT WOULD NOT SCREEN THE FILM BEE OF THE GAY CHARACTER. “IF I N’T S THROUGH A MOVIE WH GOD OR J STG BY ME THEN WE HAVE NO BS SHOWG ,” THE OWNERS OF THE HENGAR DRIVE-IN WROTE A FACEBOOK POST. THE FILM HAS ALSO BEEN PULLED OM THEATERS MALAYSIA, EVEN AFTER THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” WAS CUT ORR TO PASS THE NATN’S STRICT CENSORS. THE FILM HAS ALSO RANKLED CENSORS RSIA, AND WAS GIVEN A 16+ RATG AS A RULT OF THE GAY SCENE (WHICH IS, REMR, SO VERY, VERY MIMAL).IN A RECENT TERVIEW, LEGENDARY POSER ALAN MENKEN LLED THE NTROVERSY “AN UTTER NON-ISSUE. AND I’D APPRECIATE PEOPLE REALIZG THAT ’S A NON-ISSUE BEE ’S JT SILLY.”BUT ON MONDAY NIGHT, MCGREGOR TLY ULD NOT RE LS ABOUT ADDRSG THGS THE MENKEN WAY. “IT’S 2017, FOR FUCK’S SAKE!” THE ST QUIPPED.IAN MCKELLEN, WHO VOIC THE ROLE OF COGSWORTH, HAS ALSO OPTED TO TAKE THE RIFF-HEAVY MCGREGOR ROUTE. WHILE DISCSG THE NTROVERSY AT BETY AND THE BEAST’S NEW YORK PREMIERE ON MONDAY, THE ACTOR, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, JOKGLY LLED THE FILM A “GAY EXTRAVAGANZA,” PER VARIETY. WOULDN’T THAT BE SOMETHG?SEE EMMA WATSON’S STYLISH TRANSFORMATN OM LTLE LADY TO FASHN MAVEN1 / 47CHEVRONCHEVRON2001ALTHOUGH WATSON’S LAVENR GOWN WAS UNQUTNABLY ANGELIC, WAS HER DARK FEATHER BOA THAT HAD AT “EXPECTO PATRONUM.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANYOHANA DTA

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

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EWAN MCGREGOR SLAMS BETY AND THE BEAST ‘GAY SCENE’ NTROVERSY

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

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

"I hear the discsn and I rpect both sis of , I really do, " McGregor told Variety about the ia of straight actors playg gay rol. In particular, he was rpondg to Billy Porter potg out that while gay actors get shut out of rol unls they are flamboyant, there's a long history of straight actors wng awards for gay rol.

" Pot of view is an terted to phrase a ld hard fact: the vast majory of the most heavily regnized and award LGBTQ+ rol have been portrayed by performers who are eher straight or did not publicly intify as queer prr to wng their McGregor, the se of this project cid that "if had been a story about Halston's sexualy more, then maybe 's right that gay actors should play that role.

JIM CARREY-EWAN MCGREGOR GAY LOVE SCENE RELEASED ONLE

McGregor has prevly played gay Velvet Goldme, I Love You Phillip Morris, and The Pillow Book. The actor – who plays Lumière Bill Condon’s live-actn remake of the Disney classic – turned the airwav blue when he cricised the uproar and nfirmed that Josh Gad’s character LeFou is gay.

“There’s lots of gay of sex …there’s a lot of gay sex this rtoon, ” McGregor quipped. In character: Ewan McGregor as Lumière / DisneyReferrg to a cema Alabama that has ncelled the film over a gay character, he said: “And I thk if you live anywhere near Alabama, you should not go and see this film.

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

”Colbert said: “There are mours that LeFou has gay feelgs for Gaston. ”McGregor replied: “It’s jt like…he’s a gay character. ” LeFou, who plays the sikick to the villao Gaston (Le Evans), enjoys an “exclively gay moment” at the end of the film durg a group dance, which se him dancg wh a woman, before sidlg up to a drs-lovg henchman.

EWAN MCGREGOR JOKGLY REVEALS BETY AND THE BEAST’S SECRET: “THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX”“IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR ALABAMA, YOU SHOULD NOT GO AND SEE THIS FILM. WHAT WOULD J THK?”BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 14, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEEWAN MCGREGOR AND IAN MCKELLEN ARE LEANG ALL THE WAY TO THE UPROAR SURROUNDG THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST. AFTER DIRECTOR BILL CONDON REVEALED THAT THE CHARACTER LEFOU (PLAYED BY JOSH GAD) IS GAY THE FILM, AND THAT HIS SEXUALY FIGUR TO A PARTICULAR SCENE, MANY CHEERED DISNEY FOR BEG PROGRSIVE—WHILE MORE NSERVATIVE FANS PLAC LIKE ALABAMA AND MALAYSIA ARE TURNG THEIR BACKS ON THE FILM. NO MATTER; MCGREGOR AND MCKELLEN ABSOLUTELY DO NOT MCCARE WHAT THEY THK.ON MONDAY NIGHT, STEPHEN COLBERT ASKED MCGREGOR, WHO VOIC THE ROLE OF LUMIèRE, ABOUT THE NTROVERSY.“THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX ,” MCGREGOR JOK. “THERE’S A LOT OF GAY SEX THIS RTOON. IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR ALABAMA, YOU SHOULD NOT GO AND SEE THIS FILM. WHAT WOULD J THK?”AN ALABAMA THEATER RECENTLY SAID THAT WOULD NOT SCREEN THE FILM BEE OF THE GAY CHARACTER. “IF I N’T S THROUGH A MOVIE WH GOD OR J STG BY ME THEN WE HAVE NO BS SHOWG ,” THE OWNERS OF THE HENGAR DRIVE-IN WROTE A FACEBOOK POST. THE FILM HAS ALSO BEEN PULLED OM THEATERS MALAYSIA, EVEN AFTER THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” WAS CUT ORR TO PASS THE NATN’S STRICT CENSORS. THE FILM HAS ALSO RANKLED CENSORS RSIA, AND WAS GIVEN A 16+ RATG AS A RULT OF THE GAY SCENE (WHICH IS, REMR, SO VERY, VERY MIMAL).IN A RECENT TERVIEW, LEGENDARY POSER ALAN MENKEN LLED THE NTROVERSY “AN UTTER NON-ISSUE. AND I’D APPRECIATE PEOPLE REALIZG THAT ’S A NON-ISSUE BEE ’S JT SILLY.”BUT ON MONDAY NIGHT, MCGREGOR TLY ULD NOT RE LS ABOUT ADDRSG THGS THE MENKEN WAY. “IT’S 2017, FOR FUCK’S SAKE!” THE ST QUIPPED.IAN MCKELLEN, WHO VOIC THE ROLE OF COGSWORTH, HAS ALSO OPTED TO TAKE THE RIFF-HEAVY MCGREGOR ROUTE. WHILE DISCSG THE NTROVERSY AT BETY AND THE BEAST’S NEW YORK PREMIERE ON MONDAY, THE ACTOR, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, JOKGLY LLED THE FILM A “GAY EXTRAVAGANZA,” PER VARIETY. WOULDN’T THAT BE SOMETHG?SEE EMMA WATSON’S STYLISH TRANSFORMATN OM LTLE LADY TO FASHN MAVEN1 / 47CHEVRONCHEVRON2001ALTHOUGH WATSON’S LAVENR GOWN WAS UNQUTNABLY ANGELIC, WAS HER DARK FEATHER BOA THAT HAD AT “EXPECTO PATRONUM.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRACHEL LEVISS SEEMGLY QUS VANRPUMP RUL WH HELP FROM BETHENNY FRANKELBY SAVANNAH WALSHPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANYOHANA DTA

(Lrie Sparham/Disney) / DisneyThe film, starrg Emma Watson as Belle alongsi Dan Stevens as the Beast, has been pulled om a number of cemas across the globe cludg untry’s two ma cema chas said the film had been postponed fely spe beg approved after removg the “gay moment” And The Beast - Trailer 3As well as troducg a gay character, the film also tak Belle a femist directn and featur two terracial upl - somethg Stanley Tucci said is an even bigger actor, who plays Matro Canza, the hband of Audra McDonald’s character Madame Garrobe, said: “This movie will have more ronance than ever — and is need more than ever. 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. "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.