Can Straight Actors Play Gay? There's a 'Spectm,' Says Jim Parsons

Contents:

• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SHAR HIS THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'
• GAY ACTORS, STRAIGHT ROL: A LSON IN MAKG SURE YOUR ARGUMENT IS LOGIL
• SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SHAR HIS THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

The funnit and sadst (and therefore bt) observatn durg the 2019 Osrs season was that there was more gay sex and queer characters an 18th-century black edy about the queen than there was a bpic about the gay ontman of the band Queen. But like a big gay Trojan horse, those films rolled to town and a faiar nversatn me pourg out: Is right that the queer characters are all played by heterosexual actors?

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'

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GAY ACTORS, STRAIGHT ROL: A LSON IN MAKG SURE YOUR ARGUMENT IS LOGIL

I don't thk there were any moments which he need specific help jt bee he wasn’t gay. "Straight men playg gay, everyone wants to give them an award. ” The actor Darren Criss, a heterosexual who has played gay men both Glee and The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story, has sce said he will no longer play LGBTQ parts, bee he did not want to perpetuate the problem of reprentatn the ’s cisn might not have been wholly necsary, though, as there are larger issu at play; bigger nam are more likely to secure fundg, theory anyway, and a arth of out actors (no openly gay man has ever won the Bt Actor Osr) means the cycle will ntue to feed self.

” On the one hand, ’s excg to see pictur lkg him to other men the dtry; a gay/bi man playg a gay part is progrs. The 47-year-old actor is revealg his thoughts on the ntroversial nversatn about who gets to play what 22, 2021, 4:24 AM UTC / Source: TODAYNeil Patrick Harris is openg up about his thoughts on whether or not straight actors should play gay on televisn and film. ”The 47-year-old actor is about to be part of an all gay male ensemble the new seri "It’s A S, " that was directed by Rsell T Davi, the creator of "Queer as Folk.

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

" Followg a group of young gay men early 1980s England and their experience wh HIV and AIDS, Davi ma a pot to st this latt work of his wh actors who intify as gay real life.

“I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance, " Davi said of his stg cisn.