Tom Holland 'reacts' to 'The Crowd Room' gay scene

Contents:

• 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'
• 8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• MARVEL STAR JAKE GYLLENHAAL FOUND GAY SCEN WH DC ACTOR “UNFORTABLE” 2005 MOVIE THAT WON 3 OSRS
• TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE
• THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

'BROKEBACK MOUNTA' AT 15: JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON HOW FILMG GAY ROMANCE 'WAS UNFORTABLE AT TIM BUT WE KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE'

It’s hard to believe but 15 years have passed sce the inic gay film Brokeback Mounta was released.

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8 MOST REALISTIC GAY SEX SCEN

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TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

"This is the first time we get to explore a gay love story pth, but won't stop there. (Photo: Foc Films/Everett Collectn)Speakg of love stori, Bros n't rist lobbg gags the directn of one of Hollywood's most famo gay romanc: Brokeback Mounta, Ang Lee's Osr-wng 2005 drama starrg straight actors, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, as doomed lovers. "That said, Brokeback Mounta is also the poster child for the kd of tragic gay romance — one ma by a largely straight st and crew — that Hollywood has too often favored tellg at the expense of other stori.

Neverthels, Brokeback Mounta found great succs at the box office spe beg crilly divisive for s gay them at the time. Durg an terview wh Yahoo Entertament, Jake Gyllenhaal entertaed the fact that he was very unfortable filmg timate gay scen wh Heath Ledger, but as they both knew the end rult would be rewardg, they phed through the whole filmg procs. Wh such popular actors volved, even some of the more homophobic members of the early ghts dience were willg to shell out for movie tickets to see what this gay wboy movie was all about.

MARVEL STAR JAKE GYLLENHAAL FOUND GAY SCEN WH DC ACTOR “UNFORTABLE” 2005 MOVIE THAT WON 3 OSRS

While the film would fally allow a lot of queer dience members to fally see a tenr and timate reprentatn of themselv a major motn picture, also received an unsurprisg luge of homophobic jok and sults. Much of the ments stemmed om the film's sex scen, which, while rather tame when viewed today, were some of the more graphic gay love scen that many dience members had been exposed to at that pot. For Ledger, he didn't thk of as a "gay" love scene, as many actors of that time surely would have.

But Almodóvar, who was urted two s ago to direct the gay wtern “Brokeback Mounta” and turned down, se his new project on a ntuum wh that 2005 film, which was ultimately directed by Ang Lee, who went on to w bt director. ”It’s that nversatn that ma Almodóvar want to shoot the film the first place: After makg “Pa and Glory” (2019), which starred Anton Banras as a thly veiled versn of his director, Almodóvar has found himself creasgly drawn to stori about middle-aged gay men lookg back at their liv.

From the begng, the film was circled by both the trigue and the stigma of beg “that gay wboy movie, ” mired both homophobic backlash and cril aversn to addrsg gayns. ” Certa nservativ and relig—particularly Catholic—groups saw the story as an attempt to glorify homosexualy, which they perceived as a s and threat to the nuclear heterosexual fay un. Perhaps the most wispread homophobia directed toward the film was the sheer amount of sual mockery and risn faced both onle and off.

TOM HOLLAND 'REACTS' TO 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE

I was only 13 at the time [Brokeback Mounta me out theaters], but I distctly remember this beg “the gay wboy movie. Queer reprentatn need not always be trma-based, or rooted a forbidn love or darkns and self-hatred, nor nclu the vlent ath of the gay character.

THAT “GAY COWBOY MOVIE”QUEER PEOPLE REFLECT ON 15 YEARS OF “BROKEBACK MOUNTA”

We’re never gog to stop tellg stori like [Brokeback Mounta], which are stori about cis whe gay men gog through a hardship surroundg their g-out story. A lot of folks draw a le om Brokeback Mounta to the story of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murred Wyomg.

It’s tratg to watch films about cis whe gay men get ma over and over and over aga, and get greenl and ld for beg tly fe. My iends were all goth and gay, and they were like, “Have you seen Brokeback Mounta?

JAKE GYLLENHAAL SAID THERE WAS A 'STIGMA' ATTACHED TO PLAYG A GAY MAN 'BROKEBACK MOUNTA'

It was kd of our ltle sndalo thg that we did; we all had sleepovers and watched Brokeback Mounta and But I’m a Cheerlear (1999)—the qutsential gay movi.

Before I had moved and met all the new iends I was raised very nservatively by folks who only brought up gayns as a joke. Brokeback Mounta is herently about homophobia, stctn and tragedy; ’s not “wholome” gay reprentatn.

But neher are the liv that gay people are livg. I thk there fely is a big problem wh a lot of gay media beg about pa. I would like to see stori about gay people havg a fun time and beg happy.