Let's take a look at the logic -- or lack thereof -- a recent argument that gay actors n't play straight characters.
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?
JAKE GYLLENHAAL LOOKS BACK AT THE STIGMA OF PLAYG GAY 'BROKEBACK'
But we are never gog to reach a llective cisn, bee such a cisn would be impossible to ’s this bary way of alg wh the issue that rults Rachel Weisz likeng the experience of playg queer characters to playg an alholic, or notor heterosexual Matt Damon tellg an terviewer, “Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anythg about your sexualy, ” which sounds a hell of a lot like Don’t Ask, Don’t a bad qutn will always rult a bad answer. By askg whether straight men should play gay rol, we are askg a qutn that’s far too simplistic, removg any chance for a nuanced discsn.
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GAY ACTORS, STRAIGHT ROL: A LSON IN MAKG SURE YOUR ARGUMENT IS LOGIL
Some may fd the film’s boast of beg an "uncensored" look at the sger’s life paper-th (his sex addictn is largely left to the imagatn), but there’s no doubt Egerton earned praise for his portrayal of a gay man a perpetual state of flux. I don't thk there were any moments which he need specific help jt bee he wasn’t gay.
SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
"Straight men playg gay, everyone wants to give them an award.