Benedict Cumberbatch opens up about straight actors playg gay characters followg the but of his new film, “The Power of The Dog,” at the Telluri Film Ftival.
Contents:
- BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH OPENS UP ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
- 5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
- 8 GAY ACTORS WHO PLAYED STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
- 8 STRAIGHT POY ACTORS WHO PORTRAYED GAY ROL REALLY WELL
- LIST OF STRAIGHT SA ACTORS WHO NAILED THEIR GAY ROL ON TV DRAMA SERI
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH OPENS UP ABOUT STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * actors who played a gay role *
"Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England. "Roger Ebert wrote: "He plays the role not as a man pretendg to be a woman, and not as a woman trapped a man's body, and not as a parody of a woman, and not as a gay man, but as a drag queen, perd: Lola, a tall, athletic performer thigh-high red boots who l the stage of a drag club as if she were born there, and is a pretty good sger, too.
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, were both Osr-nomated for their performanc (Ledger lead, Gyllenhaal supportg) this film about two men fallg love and ntug their affair for film sred 87% on Rotten Tomato, wh the se's cril nsens readg: "A betifully epic Wtern, 'Brokeback Mounta''s gay love story is imbued wh heartbreakg universaly, helped by the movg performanc of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Sean Penn played gay activist Harvey Milk 2008's 'Milk. Harvey Milk is one of the most important gay activists history, and straight actor Sean Penn won an Osr for playg him.
5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
The bate over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol isn’t gog to die down any time soon. * actors who played a gay role *
Col Firth played a gay profsor 'A Sgle Man' 2009. The bate over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol isn’t gog to die down any time soon. While we fely prefer that most gay rol go to gay actors, and we love the thenticy they brg to the rol and the projects they’re , we n’t help but have a special soft spot for a few straight stars, like Brendan Fraser, are great people and great at playg gay, but aren't really known for .
8 GAY ACTORS WHO PLAYED STRAIGHT CHARACTERS
* actors who played a gay role *
We want a future where every talented queer actor n get whatever rol they want and where queer actors fally w awards for playg queer rol, but until then, the ten actors show that not every straight actor should be banned om playg gay on screen.
Theron won an Osr for playg queer serial killer Aileen Wuornos Monster, and then played gay aga the next year 2004’s Head the Clouds. But we really loved her as a bisexual actn star Atomic Blon, and as a gay in rol like Fura Mad Max: Fury Road, and Andy The Old Guard.
Firth was nomated for an Osr and won the BAFTA for his role as a gay Brish profsor livg 1960’s California the film A Sgle Man.
8 STRAIGHT POY ACTORS WHO PORTRAYED GAY ROL REALLY WELL
He’s also played gay oppose Stanley Tucci Supernova, and plays Harry Bright, one of Sophia’s potential fathers (and a gay man) the Mamma Mia! We loved when McGregor played a gay mate Phillip Morris the dark edy I Love You Phillip Morris, and aga when he played real-life legendary fashn signer Halston the Netflix miseri Halston. He then played multiple gay and trans rol the 2004 film Bad Edutn.
This year, he returns to playg gay Cassandro, a film about the legendary gay lucha libre wrtler. Gyllenhaal broke all of our hearts as a gay wboy Brokeback Mounta and then played an eccentric queer art cric Velvet Buzzsaw. He’s also producg and starrg an upg film adaptatn of the mil Fun Home as Alison Bechl’s gay dad.
Early her reer, Lyonne played the inic role of the cheerlear the semal lbian movie But I’m a Cheerlear, and sce then, she’s never stopped playg gay. Tucci has been playg gay all his reer. From smaller movi like The Daytrippers and Ltle Chaos, to his inic gay rol The Devil Wears Prada, Burlque, and Supernova (oppose fellow straight-actor-we-love Col Firth), he always do the gay muny right.
LIST OF STRAIGHT SA ACTORS WHO NAILED THEIR GAY ROL ON TV DRAMA SERI
Chalamet hasn’t had as many gay rol as the rt of the people on this list (he’s only 27, after all), but he ma que the imprsn on the queer muny wh his touchg and realistic performance as a lovtck teen Lu Guadagno’s classic g-of-age romance Call Me by Your Name.
It’s a topic on which Hollywood has yet to reach a nsens: whether or not ’s appropriate for straight actors to portray gay characters film and ’s also a topic that Benedict Cumberbatch is faiar wh, havg been nomated for an Amy Award for his performance as mathematician Alan Turg, a man both prosecuted and persecuted for his sexual orientatn, 2014’s “The Imatn Game.