Viggo Mortensen Defends Decisn To Play Gay Role In New Film 'Fallg' | HuffPost Entertament

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• 'LORD OF THE RGS' ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE
• ‘LORD OF THE RGS’ ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE
• VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE IN NEW FILM 'FALLG'
• VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS PLAYG GAY CHARACTER NEW FILM: MAYBE I’M NOT ‘PLETELY STRAIGHT’
• 'LORD OF THE RGS' ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE
• LORD OF THE RGS' VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS HIS CISN TO PORTRAY A GAY MAN FALLG

'LORD OF THE RGS' ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE

Viggo Mortensen suggted the possibily that he might not be "pletely straight" rponse to cricism that he is playg Lord of the Rgs star portrays a gay role, John, a new film he penned, Fallg, which is also his directorial but. The movie tells the story of John's relatnship wh his antigay father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), who mov to Los Angel to jo his son after a mentia diagnosis. He said nversatns about stg are "healthy" but he "didn't thk was a problem" about his own portrayal of a gay role.

‘LORD OF THE RGS’ ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE

"People then ask me, "Well what about Terry Chen, who plays my hband the film, is he a homosexual?

"Mortensen's remarks e at a time of creased bate over the appropriatens of straight actors portrayg gay rol. This week, Jam Corn has been slammed for portrayg the "worst gayface" Netflix's The Prom. Historilly, out actors were ls likely to be st starrg rol, even gay on, as this list of 61 straight people who received Osr nomatns for LGBTQ+ rol attts.

VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE IN NEW FILM 'FALLG'

LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Armed wh a retort volvg proctologists, Osr-nomated actor Viggo Mortensen is prepared for cricism of his cisn - as a straight man - to play a gay character his directorial but, which premier Bra on Monday. Mortensen, bt known for his portrayal of Aragorn the “Lord of the Rgs” trilogy, said he was jokg, but wanted to make the pot that actors are actors - simply playg a role whether a gay man or a proctologist.

“Fallg” tells the story of John’s racist and homophobic father Willis, played by Lance Henriksen, who mov om his ral farm to live wh his son Los Angel when he starts showg early signs of mentia. ‘SO MUCH INJUSTICE’Mortensen, who wrote and directed the film as well as playg s ma protagonist, was keen to strs that his cisn to make John a gay man was not “a gimmick, anchor or some trigger” was while wrg an early scene which John gets a phone ll om his partner as Willis wanrs off an airport, that Mortensen cid to swch John’s sexualy.

Note: This say ntas discsn of homophobia and mentn of suici.

VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS PLAYG GAY CHARACTER NEW FILM: MAYBE I’M NOT ‘PLETELY STRAIGHT’

Outsi of the safe darkns of the theater, the Mordor-like wasteland of middle school, the movi were synonymo wh the favored sult of the time — “gay. Early-2000s preteen Ameri was a time of gay jok, of “no homo, ” of mockg voic and slurs, and secret, punive vlence enacted the locker room agast anyone who had a whiff of otherns. He never would have wrten about gay people!

'LORD OF THE RGS' ACTOR VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS CISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE

He faced a urt-martial 1918 after one of his letters scribed “homosexual relatns wh men his pany. Two years before The Lord of the Rgs was published, war-wng breaker and geni mathematician Alan Turg stood trial for “homosexual acts and gross cency” — that is, beg ught his own home wh another man.

Lewis wrote a letter to Sheldon Vanken (later reprted Vanken’s tobgraphy) that Lewis had received a letter om a “p male homosexual [... The only mentn is a bland reference his bgraphy by Humphrey Carpenter: “As to homosexualy, Tolkien claimed that at neteen he did not even know the word.

LORD OF THE RGS' VIGGO MORTENSEN FENDS HIS CISN TO PORTRAY A GAY MAN FALLG

Tolkien wrote of the openly gay poet W. As scribed by thor Reynolds Price, at least one member of Tolkien’s iend group, the Inklgs, “separated om his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life. She beme an in the gay male muny for wrg sympathetilly about same-sex relatnships ancient Greece.

Bilbo and Frodo’s home of Bag End is scribed by other hobbs as “a queer place, and s folk are queerer” — an adjective which had a strong nnotatn of homosexualy by the late 1800s. It’s tricky to apply morn labels to people that they did not claim life — but morn labels clu “straight” and “cisgenr” jt as much as “gay” or “transgenr.

One of them was Geofey Bache Smh, a poet whose work is nsired homoromantic by morn rears.