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Amy Award-wner Christopher Plummer plays a newly out gay dad Begners, but after a lifetime of gay peers and gay parti, the Sound of Mic star don't give a damn about sexualy.

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CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER WON AN OSR FOR PLAYG A GAY DAD ‘BEGNERS’

Christopher Plummer won his only Osr for playg a gay dad 'Begners.' He won the award when he was 82 2012. He died Friday at 91. * christopher plummer gay father *

Christopher Plummer won his only Osr for his role as Hal Fields, a gay father and widower who out of the closet near the end of his life to his son.

” The story is semi-tobgraphil, based on the life of the film’s wrer-director Mike Mills, whose father me out as gay as a senr. He’s ee om all that burn of tryg to supprs his homosexualy, and he’s also love, ” Plummer told the Los Angel Tim 2011. He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts.

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: HAPPY FATHER'S GAY

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Inspired by the real-life experienc of filmmaker Mike Mills, Begners, which expand to wi release June 15, stars Christopher Plummer as a recently widowed father who out as gay to his son (Ewan McGregor) and gets a younger boyiend (Goran Visnjic) at age 75, five years before his ath om ncer.

A mellow man of few words, the 81-year-old Osr nomee explas why all his gay iends are out -- and why he'd prefer not to talk about kissg his handsome Many outlets have reported that Hal Begners is your first gay role, but that's not te, is ? Christopher Plummer: No, 's not te at played gay the 1980 TV movie The Shadow Box.

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 87 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE WAS GAY

Many of the gay mors surroundg Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Mic) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most actors. However the poll suggts that a big majory (87%) of rponnts don't believe that he was gay. * christopher plummer gay father *

As Begners, tertgly enough, you played a man who's dyg of ncer and who dat a younger man after many years of marriage to a woman, but I image was a different experience to play gay on televisn more than 30 years ago. No, bee the film wasn't about beg gay.

OSR WNER CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY: "WE ALL DO A GREAT JOB"

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Shadow Box was so ncentrated on the ncer theme that one didn't discs the gay thg; as far as I n remember, was jt accepted as beg a part of after 30 years of progrs when to gay visibily and gay rights, did feel any different to play a gay character?

Well, Begners isn't about beg gay eher -- 's about beg who you are and how to be happy about . Hal is totally up-ont about , and he adms wh great glee that he's gay.

IS CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER GAY?

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That's what was so enarg to me about the you been offered other gay rol your reer that you turned down? I thought of him as a cross-drser, but God, he was everythg unr the sun -- a wonrfully exaggerated Begners and all the prs and attentn that have e wh , were you nsc of the gay dience? Oh, I've got a lot of gay fans -- I were The Sound of Mic, after, and God knows I've known so many gay people all through my life the theater and the arts -- and, more vertly, other bs as well.

They don't have the self-nscns that policians or bsmen have, so they're eer, and they're obvly more accepted as beg gay.

God knows I knew them all when they didn't dare behave a gay fashn, bee this was the '50s and ' anyone ever e out to you? All my good iends were sophistited enough to be 's enuragg to hear that you've known many gay people durg your long reer the entertament dtry. But as an openly gay actor, your Thorn Birds star Richard Chamberla has said that he still wouldn't advise gay leadg men to e out of the closet.

IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

The movie Begners stars Ewan McGregor as a young man who learns that his 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, is gay. The movie is based on filmmaker Mike Mills' own life. Mills explas what happened when his own dad me out. * christopher plummer gay father *

I'm very iendly wh a lot of gays, who I thk are terrific, talented, wonrful people, jt as a lot of straights I know are terrific, talented, wonrful people.

I only have one opn about people, and 's that I don't give a damn if they're gay or was married to a woman for many years, but he secretly had sexual relatns wh men on the si plac like public rtrooms.

I've known several men who've been married who were gay on the si, but I don't know which they preferred more. Bee he had the good taste not, at 75, do he go through the trouble of startg over as an active gay man?

'BEGNERS': A SON'S 'LOVE LETTER' TO HIS GAY FATHER

In the new film Begners, the veteran actor plays a retired man who out as gay after his wife of 45 years di. He talks about why the fished versn of Up surprised him and why he wasn't fond of his most famo role, as Capta von Trapp The Sound of Mic. * christopher plummer gay father *

He's a real person who jt happened to be gay. He's so happy about beg able to adm to everyone that he's gay, but he's so most about at the same time. He wasn't like Hal out, he fds a sense of muny wh a group of gay iends.

Did you e away om the film wh any sights about gay culture?

Acrdg to Ewan, most of the actors who play Hal's gay iends were actually gay. Y, they a brief but memorable scene, Hal go to a gay nightclub. It's not exactly an everyday occurrence to see Christopher Plummer dancg a gay club.

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: HAPPY FATHER'S GAY

I believe was a real gay club, but those were all jt extras, of urse.

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