Contents:
- 'LOVE VICTOR' STAR MICHAEL CIMO GETTG DEATH THREATS FOR PLAYG GAY ROLE
- TOM HANKS EXPLAS WHY HE WOULDN’T TAKE ANOTHER GAY ROLE: ‘WE’RE BEYOND THAT NOW’
- TOM HANKS SAYS HE ULDN’T PLAY GAY ROLE TODAY LIKE HE DID ‘PHILALPHIA’
'LOVE VICTOR' STAR MICHAEL CIMO GETTG DEATH THREATS FOR PLAYG GAY ROLE
17/06/2021 00:57Michael Cimo says he's tchg tons of heat for playg a gay character "Love, Victor"... One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man. Hanks played Andrew Beckett, a lawyer who his his AIDS diagnosis and his homosexualy om his workers bee he’s aaid uld promise his reer.
“One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man, ” the California native explaed on Monday.
“We’re beyond that now, and I don’t thk people would accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy. And bee of [that persona] then, this ia of a gay man wh AIDS is not sry. “We felt that we would fail if our movie played to people who already thk that discrimatn agast people wh AIDS is wrong, or people who already believe that people shouldn’t discrimate agast homosexuals, ” the Pated Veil screenwrer, 65, said the documentary.
TOM HANKS EXPLAS WHY HE WOULDN’T TAKE ANOTHER GAY ROLE: ‘WE’RE BEYOND THAT NOW’
Tom Hanks: Straight Actors Can't Play Gay Parts | Natnal Review. The Osr wner relled playg the character of a gay attorney the 1993 drama film. Tom Hanks’ Osr-wng part as gay lawyer Andrew Beckett 1993’s “Philalphia” marked an important turng pot the history of portrayg the LGBTQ muny on-screen.
We’re beyond that now, and I don’t thk people would accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy, ” he went on. Tom Hanks starred as AIDS-stricken gay lawyer Andrew Beckett alongsi Denzel Washgton 1993’s “Philalphia.