Col Firth is uncid whether straight actors should play gay characters | The Inpennt

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• '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
• COL FIRTH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 74 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

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

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ntted a trailer for SupernovaOn Twter, some have already taken Supernova to task for ntug what creasgly seems like an outdated queer actors queer rol but also I would die for this uple played by straight men who will fely do nothg more than hug sweaters John Bickerstaff ?️‍?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.

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

”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.

COL FIRTH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 74 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

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.

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.

COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

"If you're known as a straight guy, playg a gay role, you get reward for that.

If you're a gay man and you want to play a straight role, you don't get st -- and if a gay man wants to play a gay role now, you don't get st. "In December Rupert Everett, who is openly gay, said much of the same, advisg gay actors to stay the closet if they wanted a big reer. Is Col Firth Gay?

He is a straight man not gay. 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?