Should straight actors still play gay characters? 'It's plited'

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NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SHAR HIS THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * gay acting straight guys *

"Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England. "Roger Ebert wrote: "He plays the role not as a man pretendg to be a woman, and not as a woman trapped a man's body, and not as a parody of a woman, and not as a gay man, but as a drag queen, perd: Lola, a tall, athletic performer thigh-high red boots who l the stage of a drag club as if she were born there, and is a pretty good sger, too.

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'

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Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, were both Osr-nomated for their performanc (Ledger lead, Gyllenhaal supportg) this film about two men fallg love and ntug their affair for film sred 87% on Rotten Tomato, wh the se's cril nsens readg: "A betifully epic Wtern, 'Brokeback Mounta''s gay love story is imbued wh heartbreakg universaly, helped by the movg performanc of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Sean Penn played gay activist Harvey Milk 2008's 'Milk. Harvey Milk is one of the most important gay activists history, and straight actor Sean Penn won an Osr for playg him.

Col Firth played a gay profsor 'A Sgle Man' 2009. The 47-year-old actor is revealg his thoughts on the ntroversial nversatn about who gets to play what 22, 2021, 4:24 AM UTC / Source: TODAYNeil Patrick Harris is openg up about his thoughts on whether or not straight actors should play gay on televisn and film. ”The 47-year-old actor is about to be part of an all gay male ensemble the new seri "It’s A S, " that was directed by Rsell T Davi, the creator of "Queer as Folk.

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Recent lerature has scribed the phenomenon of "straight-actg" gay men: gay men who intify wh tradnal heteronormative masculy. The current study examed predictors of "straight-actg" intifitn gay men and how intifyg as straight-actg relat to well-beg. A sample … * gay acting straight guys *

" Followg a group of young gay men early 1980s England and their experience wh HIV and AIDS, Davi ma a pot to st this latt work of his wh actors who intify as gay real life. “I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance, " Davi said of his stg cisn. "Neil Patrick HarrisOn the subject of "Queer as Folk, " the groundbreakg early 2000s drama that featured mostly straight actors playg gay, Harris said he was a big fan.

“I thk there’s somethg sexy about stg a straight actor to play a gay role, if they’re willg to vt a lot to . "That said, do I want to see more gay parts played by gay actors?

It mak a difference performance-wise (IMO), but also bec straight actors playg 'gay' centers straightns.

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"Kristen Stewart also recently opened up about the topic of straight actors playg gay, sayg she thks "about this all the time. “In our world that we live you n’t really as a director mand that (an actor be gay or straight), " he said, addg the qutn: "Who’s to terme how gay someone is? In early December, Netflix dropped s highly anticipated mil edy “The Prom, ” starrg Meryl Streep, Nile Kidman, Andrew Rannells and Jam Corn as fadg Broadway stars who set out to help a lbian teen take her girliend to the film, helmed by out director Ryan Murphy, got mixed reviews, but some lambasted as “homophobic” and “offensive” bee of the stg of Corn, a straight actor, what they saw as an “aggrsively flamboyant” riture of a gay character, Barry Glickman, is a narcissistic theater actor who dons sparklg tuxedo jackets, talks wh a stereotypil gay lisp while flailg his hands around and scrib himself as “gay as a bucket of wigs.

"Melda Sue Gordon / NetflixErik Anrson, who ns the film se Awards Watch, lled “The Prom” a “geo and vibrant productn” but tweeted that Corn’s “performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface a long, long time.

”The ntroversy threw fuel on an already simmerg bate: Should non-LGBTQ actors still be st lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rol?

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