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Stanley Tucci weighed on the bate about straight actors portrayg gay characters a new terview wh BBC Rad 4’s Dert Island Discs on Saturday.

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STANLEY KAMEL : WAS HE GAY?

Stanely Tucci says 's the job of an actor to play different people, which is why straight performanc n take on gay rol. * stanley gay film *

While I DID have that relatnship wh a woman, LONG before that, I was both amed and trated by how many people & extend fay om my small home town were "whisperg" and jt nvced that I was gay!

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: ‘YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THAT’S THE WHOLE POT OF IT’

Stanley Tucci, who portrayed queer men 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'Supernova,' wad to the bate about straight actors playg gay characters. * stanley gay film *

Where I am om, if you don't have a hband and at least one kid by the time you are 25-ish, they really jt assume that you are gay and/or to some sort of "crazy liftyle.

I like to thk that I have a pretty good "gaydar, " but I never saw this actor and nsired the possibily. To learn that he was gay (possibly) is hardly remarkable. The late, great Tony Perks had a lovely wife and two sons, but he was most fely bisexual, if not jt gay.

STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

Tucci has played some inic gay rol films like The Devil Wears Prada and Supernova. * stanley gay film *

Stanley Tucci appeared on BBC Rad 4’s “Dert Island Discs” show and weighed on the bate over straight actors playg gay characters. The Osr nomee, whose been married to Ey Blunt’s sister sce 2012, played gay rol “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) and “Supernova” (2020) and received cril acclaim for both performanc.

“Obvly I believe that’s fe, ” Tucci said about straight actors takg gay rol.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

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“I am always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk to me about ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ or they talk about ‘Supernova, ’ and they say that, ‘It was jt so betiful, ’ you know, ‘You did the right way. As long as ’s beg done “the right way, ” Tucci said ’s fe for straight actors to play gay characters on screen.

Tucci’s thoughts differ om that of Tom Hanks, who told The New York Tim Magaze last year that a straight actor uld not take on a gay role like the one he played Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philalphia. ” Hanks starred the film as a gay man wh HIV who is discrimated agast at work, and he won the Osr for bt actor thanks to his performance.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man.

We’re beyond that now, and I don’t thk people would accept the thenticy of a straight guy playg a gay guy.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Stanley Tucci argued that straight actors should be allowed to play gay characters, if 's done 'right,' and don't slip to stereotyp. * stanley gay film *

Stanley Tucci tak no issue wh straight actors playg gay characters — as long as ’s done “the right way. “And I’m always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk about ‘The Devil Wears Prada, ’ when they talk about ‘Supernova, ’ and they say that was ‘jt so betiful. Is not about havg only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors.

” “It’s important that gay characters are portrayed as well-round and pletely human dividuals, ” add Parsons, who noted that “there are plenty of straight actors who have played gay characters brilliantly. Grant qutned a 2019 terview wh the Sunday Tim how anyone uld still “jtify heterosexual actors playg gay characters.

STANLEY TUCCI ARGU STRAIGHT ACTORS CAN PLAY GAY CHARACTERS IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

While both actors have played gay characters the past recent years the stg of straight performers LGBTQ rol has bee a more ntted issue. * stanley gay film *

”And “Glee” alum Darren Criss ma headl 2018 for sayg that he might stop playg gay characters, tellg Btle, “I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy takg a gay man’s role. Stanley Tucci is great at playg gay, and we don’t have a problem wh 62-year-old actor has played several gay characters throughout his reer, notably films like The Devil Wears Prada and Supernova, so mak sense that he’d be asked about his opn on the ntroversial topic of straight actors playg gay qutn was asked of Tucci on BBC Rad 4’s Dert Island Discs this weekend.

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

Stanley Tucci, who has played gay characters, says the "whole pot" of actg is to "play different people." * stanley gay film *

“Obvly, I believe that’s fe, ” Tucci said about straight men playg gay. “I am always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk about [my role ] The Devil Wears Prada or they talk about Supernova, and they say that, ‘It was jt so betiful, ’ you know, ‘You did the right way, ” he said.

”Now, we of urse want gay actors to get as many rol as they n, and we absolutely love the thenticy that they brg to queer performanc.

However, we also are fe wh straight actors who rpect the muny and unrstand the importance of queer reprentatn playg gay, and Tucci is one of those. In fact, Tucci is one of our favore gay-playg straight actors, and we’re not aaid to say .

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT'S 'FE' FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: 'THAT'S THE WHOLE POT OF IT'

His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Stanley Tucci weighed on the bate about straight actors portrayg gay characters a new terview wh BBC Rad 4’s Dert Island Discs on Saturday.

Tucci has portrayed gay characters 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” and the 2020 film “Supernova” alongsi Osr-wner Col Firth.

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