"It’s kd of prejudiced to say that if you have a gay character a movie, you need to show explic gay sex."
Contents:
- THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
- THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
- BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH TALKS ABOUT GAY SEX SCEN (OR LACK OF) THE IMATN GAME
- ‘THE IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON LACK OF GAY SEX MOVIE AND WORKG WH BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
- <I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
- BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
- ‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
- OSRS: ‘THE IMATN GAME’ FALLY PLAYS THE GAY CARD
- OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP
THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR FENDS FILM'S LACK OF GAY SEX SCEN
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If I have a gay character a movie, I need to have a sex scene — jt to prove that he’s gay?
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THE IMATN GAME DIRECTOR MORTEN TYLDUM: WE DIDN'T NEED GAY SEX SCEN
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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH TALKS ABOUT GAY SEX SCEN (OR LACK OF) THE IMATN GAME
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‘THE IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON LACK OF GAY SEX MOVIE AND WORKG WH BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
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<I>THE IMATN GAME</I>'S ALAN TURG -- A GAY MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
The many fac of Benedict Cumberbatch Show all 12Director Morten Tyldum also mented on the lack of gay sex, addg that was a "very nsc choice" as Turg's sexualy was "jt one part of the character that [he] wanted to reveal" Knightley, Allen Leech, Matthew Goo and Rory Knear also star alongsi Cumberbatch the film, which is already beg tipped for an is due for release UK cemas on 14 November.
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BUT IS IT GAY ENOUGH?: THE IMATN GAME
“The Imatn Game” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turg, a World War II Brish mathematician famo for crackg Nazi Germany’s Enigma , but ultimately punished by the ernment for his homosexualy. Somethg that’s been a pretty hotly bated topic around this film is the explic exprsn of homosexualy.
So you have that and to add somethg any way, we felt, would be disrpectful to this character beg gay. It’s almost like addg an unnecsary sex scene for a heterosexual character…like bee he’s gay, we have to have that.
‘IMATN GAME,’ ALAN TURG AND THE CHEMIL WAR ON U.K.’S GAYS
He was a clost gay man dog the whole World War, which was really part of the whole [film]. "Once I beme a wrer I would go to my agents once a year and say, 'Hey, there's this movie I really want to wre about a gay English mathematician who ms suici after the Send World War, '" Moore remembers.
OSRS: ‘THE IMATN GAME’ FALLY PLAYS THE GAY CARD
(It's one of history's awful ironi that the general public found out Turg was gay, by way of an cency trial brought by Brish thori, long before they found out he was largely rponsible for outsmartg the Nazis.
Rather, Moore says, he's meant to symbolize "the stutnalized homophobia of the day, to show that this wasn't some ravg lunatic who arrted persecuted Alan Turg.
It’s this gets sticky is when to the fate of Turg himself, who was gay when was still illegal and nvicted for gross cency, opted for chemil stratn rather than imprisonment, and died a year later, probably by his own hand, while sufferg this digny.
OSRS: ‘IMATN GAME’ DIRECTOR ON WHY THE FILM DIDN’T PORTRAY AN ALAN TURG GAY RELATNSHIP
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