Should straight actors still play gay characters? 'It's plited'

Contents:

• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SHAR HIS THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• LET’S SETTLE THIS: CAN STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL?
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

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

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?

"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.

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

Jam Corn, particular, was slammed for his portrayal of a gay character The Prom, a flamboyant pictn that was cricized as "gayface.

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.

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

"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.

The performance was so stereotypil that, to me, was borrle homophobic.