Col Firth is So Gay

Contents:

• COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM
• COL FIRTH SHAR THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PERSON’S LIFE?’

COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeCol Firth has said that he remas uncid on whether is right for straight actors to portray gay will be starrg oppose Stanley Tucci as a gay uple the forthg film Supernova. The drama foc on the two men who embark on a road trip together after Tucci’s character is diagnosed wh early-onset an terview wh Attu, the actor was qutned on whether he believed was right for him, a straight man, to take on a gay cled to give an opn eher way. ” Firth starred oppose Julianne Moore ‘A Sgle Man’ as Gee FalnerIn 2009’s’s crilly acclaimed drama A Sgle Man, Firth also portrayed a gay character.

” said the Kgsman -star Tucci add: “For so many years, gay men and women have had to hi their homosexualy showbs to get the rol they wanted – that’s the problem here.

Speakg on “Piers Man Uncensored” (via The Inpennt), Everett touched on the topic of straight actors playg gay rol, and while he don’t thk all gay rol should be played by gay actors, he seemed annoyed that the straight-intifyg Firth played a gay role Tom Ford’s 2009 film.

COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM

In the film — which is directed by a gay man om a novel by the beloved gay wrer Christopher Isherwood — Col Firth plays a gay English profsor wh a ath wish after his lover (Matthew Goo) di a wreck. “There’s many exampl of fantastic straight actors playg great gay rol. Then there’s some ls good, and I thk the qutn is more, ‘Why n’t gay actors play straight rol?

The actor broke big playg an openly gay public school stunt 1984’s “Another Country” oppose Col Firth. “The thg that was very tratg, when I had my big Hollywood moment, which was playg a gay bt iend and beg gay, was at that pot very difficult to graduate, ” Everett said, speakg of his role as Gee Down the 1997 Julia Roberts rom- “My Bt Friend’s Weddg. I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol.

But the gay actors should be able to play the straight rol, too.

COL FIRTH SHAR THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PERSON’S LIFE?’

The discsn of gay actors playg certa rol also segued to remarks on trans clivy Hollywood, wh Everett potg to Srlett Johansson whdrawg om playg a transgenr character “Rub & Tug” 2018. Is Col Firth Gay?

He is a straight man not gay.

Speakg on Piers Man Uncensored, Everett, 62, discsed the topic of straight actors playg gay characters. While he said he did not thk gay rol need to be played exclively by gay actors, he seemed irked by Firth’s role as a gay man the 2009 drama.

”Everett, who first found fame playg a gay public school pupil 1984 drama Another Country, has prevly said he believed g out harmed his Hollywood reer.

“I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol, ” he said.