Benedict Cumberbatch weighs on straight actors gay rol ahead of 'Power of the Dog' release | CNN

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• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?

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.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

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.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?

” Nuance, though, is necsary for any actor playg a gay character, he said. That’s part of why Jam Corn’s stg “The Prom” as a flamboyant fad Broadway star was wily cricized: Corn, who is married to a woman, played to stereotyp of gay men, acrdg to many crics, who said his performance was “sultg” and lled him “offensively misst. “In general, y, I wish more gay actors got the chance to tell our stori, embody our people, rather than straight men gettg aclas for beg brave – or cheers for beg sassy, ” Lawson wrote his review of the film.

But the ia that playg a gay role is a “brave” cisn for a straight actor is beg ls domant, cric Guy Lodge said an terview wh the Guardian, evinced by the lack of buzz for films such as “Ammone” and “Supernova, ” which both foced on queer love stori portrayed by straight actors. “I thk the ia of beg ‘brave’ for playg gay is gog away, ” Lodge said.

”Sexualy is at the foreont of Cumberbatch’s hotly anticipated film, The Imatn Game, which he plays Alan Turg, a gay man who was wily creded wh crackg the Enigma durg World War II. Tragilly, Turg mted suici after the war when he was nvicted of “engagg homosexual relatns”. ”Cumberbatch, who officiated his iends’ Seth Cummgs and Rob Rr’s civil ceremony Ibiza last year, also spoke about how difficult is for gay actors Hollywood.