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

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The bate over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol isn’t gog to die down any time soon.

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

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Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels. It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom.

"There's fely this spectm: I thk the fight, as were, is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors, " the Boys the Band star told the Los Angel Tim. "It's important that gay characters are portrayed as well-round and pletely human dividuals.

LET’S SETTLE THIS: CAN STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL?

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"And there are plenty of straight actors who have played gay characters brilliantly.

I thk Brokeback Mounta is one of the most touchg gay movi and love stori I have ever seen, and those two straight actors [Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal] were the bt choic for those rol. Jam Corn, particular, was slammed for his portrayal of a gay character The Prom, a flamboyant pictn that was cricized as "gayface.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

Supernova, the latt Hollywood film to feature straight actors playg gay men. It's time for Hollywood to stop discrimatg gay people. * straight play gay *

Tim, Parsons, who me out 2008, said his anxieti about beg a gay actor were assuaged when he portrayed a woman a Charl Bch play. "I was more ncerned that at a small level, I would always seem gay every role that I took. "But when I performed drag the Bch play, I felt that there was this permissn that was granted and I didn't have to worry about appearg gay.

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

Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * straight play gay *

The performance was so stereotypil that, to me, was borrle homophobic. In one scene, his character reveals he had to leave his childhood before g out as gay.

In 1993, Tom Hanks played a gay man dyg of AIDS "Philalphia, " and 1999, Hilary Swank gave a movg performance as a transgenr man "Boys Don't Cry. After watchg "The Prom, " I realized we should be at a place where we don't need Corn to play a gay man. There are plenty of gay actors who uld have done the job — probably better.

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