Col Firth’s Gay Sgle Man Role Should’ve Been Me: Rupert Everett – IndieWire

Contents:

• 'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM
• FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’
• ‘SUPERNOVA’ TRAILER: COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THIS GAY TEARJERKER

'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

Speakg on “Piers Man Uncensored” (via The Inpennt), Everett touched on the topic of straight actors playg gay rol, and while he don’t thk all gay rol should be played by gay actors, he seemed annoyed that the straight-intifyg Firth played a gay role Tom Ford’s 2009 film. In the film — which is directed by a gay man om a novel by the beloved gay wrer Christopher Isherwood — Col Firth plays a gay English profsor wh a ath wish after his lover (Matthew Goo) di a wreck.

“There’s many exampl of fantastic straight actors playg great gay rol.

Then there’s some ls good, and I thk the qutn is more, ‘Why n’t gay actors play straight rol? The actor broke big playg an openly gay public school stunt 1984’s “Another Country” oppose Col Firth.

COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM

“The thg that was very tratg, when I had my big Hollywood moment, which was playg a gay bt iend and beg gay, was at that pot very difficult to graduate, ” Everett said, speakg of his role as Gee Down the 1997 Julia Roberts rom- “My Bt Friend’s Weddg.

I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol. But the gay actors should be able to play the straight rol, too. The discsn of gay actors playg certa rol also segued to remarks on trans clivy Hollywood, wh Everett potg to Srlett Johansson whdrawg om playg a transgenr character “Rub & Tug” 2018.

But Supernova wrer/director Harry Macqueen found his leadg men — acclaimed actors and longtime iends Stanley Tucci and Col Firth — as soon as he fished the screenplay for his timate drama about a gay uple whose s-long romance is nearg a tragic end. While both actors have played gay characters the past, Tucci 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada and Firth 2009’s A Sgle Man, recent years the stg of straight performers LGBTQ rol has bee a more ntted a trailer for SupernovaOn Twter, some have already taken Supernova to task for ntug what creasgly seems like an outdated queer actors queer rol but also I would die for this uple played by straight men who will fely do nothg more than hug sweaters John Bickerstaff ?️‍? (@Bterstaff) September 22, 2020I love Stanley Tucci but they really uld have put Rupert Everett here and at least had SOME reprentatn as well as palizg on his documented chemistry wh Col Firth.

FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’

”Stanley Tucci and Col Firth play a gay uple the new drama Supernova. (Photo: Bleecker Street)Speakg wh the st of Netflix’s LGBTQ drama The Boys the Band last year, multiple members of the film’s openly gay ensemble — cludg Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer and Zachary Quto — ma clear that they didn’t thk that straight actors need to rece themselv om playg gay characters. At the same time, they exprsed hope that filmmakers would be equally open to stg gay actors straight more: Actors who qu major movi at the last mute“I don’t thk we should subscribe to a world which straight folks e to the queer world and get Osrs, and we n’t even get the opportuny to get to the room to dn for said role, ” Rob Jús said, referrg to such ld movi as Brokeback Mounta and Dallas Buyers Club.

(Cred: Studnal)For their part, Tucci and Firth both say that they’ve had a posive reactn om gay men who have seen the film.

“What I liked about [the script] is that didn’t matter if was a gay relatnship or a straight relatnship. The story, about a gay man g to terms wh age, mortaly and life after his partner di, is not necsarily what I'd ually choose to follow.

‘SUPERNOVA’ TRAILER: COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THIS GAY TEARJERKER

Speakg on Piers Man Uncensored, Everett, 62, discsed the topic of straight actors playg gay characters.

While he said he did not thk gay rol need to be played exclively by gay actors, he seemed irked by Firth’s role as a gay man the 2009 drama. ”Everett, who first found fame playg a gay public school pupil 1984 drama Another Country, has prevly said he believed g out harmed his Hollywood reer.

“I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol, ” he said. “I thk that the gay actors should be able to play the straight rol too, I thk some straight guys played great gay rol. Everett told Man: “I thk the qutn is more ‘Why n’t gay actors play straight rol?

It’s great for gay actors who’ve had que a hard time, you know historilly, to be playg more rol to be gettg the game. ” (BBC)Everett has also prevly been cril of the transgenr muny, argug that the transgenr movement has “pletely overshadowed” the mpaign for gay rights.

Col Firth received a bt actor Osr nod for his role as a grievg gay profsor Tom Ford's 'A Sgle Man, ' but he acknowledg that his performance did nothg to help gay actors land the plum rol, gay or straight, Hollywood. Firth told reporters at the movie's UK premiere that a gay actor g out Hollywood fac profsnal risks that may not be worth takg.

"There might be risks for a gay actor g out, " he said. "If you're known as a straight guy, playg a gay role, you get reward for that.