Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"
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- JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
- JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
JAM FRAN DISS MICHAEL FASSBENR'S SHAME CHARACTER, HOW FILM PORTRAYS GAYS AND SEX ADDICTN
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Actor rents that film shows gay club as place "meant to signify everythg dark and praved"ByNov 15, 2013 3:04 PMTagsJim Spellman/WireImageIn the 2011 movie Shame, Michael Fassbenr played a sex addict who— a moment of speratn—had an R-rated enunter wh another male the back of a gay bar.
JAM FRAN THOUGHT MICHAEL FASSBENR’S ‘SHAME’ WAS OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY COMMUNY
The film was received well by crics, but Jam Fran has some issu wh —particularly how the Steve McQueen-helmed movie picts sex addictn and gay culture.
""And that scene where he's at his lowt pot and wants to f--k and go to a gay club, " he wr, "and 's picted like the seventh level of hell... I mean, go back to the horrible reprentatns of gays the '70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everythg dark and praved.
Fran, who played a gay character Milk, has long been an outspoken supporter of the LGBT muny. Before his Comedy Central Roast September, he told the Daily Beast, "Brg on the gay jok! Bee the aren't sults at all…I don't even re if people thk I'm gay, so was like, 'Awome!