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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually reprsed wboy the 1920s – when homosexualy was wily stigmatized and many plac, crimalized – the upg Netflix film “The Power of the Dog. Hollywood has for s st actors heterosexual relatnships gay rol. Some of the creators volved those films, like director Todd Hayn of “Carol” and Lu Guadagno, who directed “Call Me By Your Name, ” which also starred straight actors, are gay themselv.
The film “Moonlight, ” which followed a gay Black man three stag of his life, was celebrated for sisteppg queer stereotyp, though starred some straight actors. Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters.
(The anizatn didn’t immediately rpond to CNN’s requt for ment regardg straight actors portrayg gay characters. Vany Fair cric Richard Lawson wrote a review of the 2020 film “The Prom” that there’s no “hard and fast le about who should play gay men on screen.