Col Firth’s Gay Sgle Man Role Should’ve Been Me: Rupert Everett – IndieWire

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• 'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM
• COL FIRTH SHAR THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PERSON’S LIFE?’
• FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’
• THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLRA BRADLEY
• 'SUPERNOVA' STARS COL FIRTH AND STANLEY TUCCI DISCS THEIR NTROVERSIAL CHOICE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• ‘SUPERNOVA’ TRAILER: COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THIS GAY TEARJERKER

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

Speakg on “Piers Man Uncensored” (via The Inpennt), Everett touched on the topic of straight actors playg gay rol, and while he don’t thk all gay rol should be played by gay actors, he seemed annoyed that the straight-intifyg Firth played a gay role Tom Ford’s 2009 film. In the film — which is directed by a gay man om a novel by the beloved gay wrer Christopher Isherwood — Col Firth plays a gay English profsor wh a ath wish after his lover (Matthew Goo) di a wreck.

“There’s many exampl of fantastic straight actors playg great gay rol. Then there’s some ls good, and I thk the qutn is more, ‘Why n’t gay actors play straight rol?

The actor broke big playg an openly gay public school stunt 1984’s “Another Country” oppose Col Firth.

COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

“The thg that was very tratg, when I had my big Hollywood moment, which was playg a gay bt iend and beg gay, was at that pot very difficult to graduate, ” Everett said, speakg of his role as Gee Down the 1997 Julia Roberts rom- “My Bt Friend’s Weddg. I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol.

But the gay actors should be able to play the straight rol, too.

COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM

The discsn of gay actors playg certa rol also segued to remarks on trans clivy Hollywood, wh Everett potg to Srlett Johansson whdrawg om playg a transgenr character “Rub & Tug” 2018. But Supernova wrer/director Harry Macqueen found his leadg men — acclaimed actors and longtime iends Stanley Tucci and Col Firth — as soon as he fished the screenplay for his timate drama about a gay uple whose s-long romance is nearg a tragic end.

COL FIRTH SHAR THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PERSON’S LIFE?’

While both actors have played gay characters the past, Tucci 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada and Firth 2009’s A Sgle Man, recent years the stg of straight performers LGBTQ rol has bee a more ntted a trailer for SupernovaOn Twter, some have already taken Supernova to task for ntug what creasgly seems like an outdated queer actors queer rol but also I would die for this uple played by straight men who will fely do nothg more than hug sweaters John Bickerstaff ?️‍? (@Bterstaff) September 22, 2020I love Stanley Tucci but they really uld have put Rupert Everett here and at least had SOME reprentatn as well as palizg on his documented chemistry wh Col Firth. ”Stanley Tucci and Col Firth play a gay uple the new drama Supernova. (Photo: Bleecker Street)Speakg wh the st of Netflix’s LGBTQ drama The Boys the Band last year, multiple members of the film’s openly gay ensemble — cludg Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer and Zachary Quto — ma clear that they didn’t thk that straight actors need to rece themselv om playg gay characters.

FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’

At the same time, they exprsed hope that filmmakers would be equally open to stg gay actors straight more: Actors who qu major movi at the last mute“I don’t thk we should subscribe to a world which straight folks e to the queer world and get Osrs, and we n’t even get the opportuny to get to the room to dn for said role, ” Rob Jús said, referrg to such ld movi as Brokeback Mounta and Dallas Buyers Club. (Cred: Studnal)For their part, Tucci and Firth both say that they’ve had a posive reactn om gay men who have seen the film.

“What I liked about [the script] is that didn’t matter if was a gay relatnship or a straight relatnship.

THE NEXT MAMMA MIA! SHOULD GIVE COL FIRTH THE GAY LOVE STORY HE DERVFIRTH’S HARRY SERV AN EPIC ROMANCE—AND THE FAILURE TO GIVE HIM ONE IS THE ONLY BUM NOTE MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA.BY LRA BRADLEYJULY 21, 2018BY JONATHAN PRIME/UNIVERSAL STUDS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEMAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA LIVERS JT ABOUT EVERYTHG A MAMMA MIA! SEQUEL N BRG TO THE TABLE: MORE ABBA, MORE BELL-BOTTOMS, MORE CHER. THE MIL SEQUEL OFFERS, AS V.F.’S OWN RICHARD LAWSON PUT HIS REVIEW, “UNPLITED JOY PLITED, SPAIRG TIM.” SO, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT ME BASHG THE FILM. IF ANYTHG, ’S ME IMPLORG THE POWERS THAT BE TO GIVE ANOTHER MOVIE, THIS TIME LIVERG THE ONE THG THAT BOTH MAMMA MIA! FILMS NEGLECTED TO GIVE THE FIRST TIME AROUND: A LOVE STORY WORTHY OF THE STAMMERG, IMPECBLY IFFED FOX THAT IS COL FIRTH’S HARRY BRIGHT. O.K., MAYBE NOT ANOTHER MOVIE—BUT EVEN A SHORT FILM OR MIC VIO WOULD DO THE TRICK.IN THE ORIGAL MIL UPON WHICH MAMMA MIA! IS BASED, HARRY TABLISH THAT HE IS GAY—AND THE FILMS, HE’S ALSO SHOWN TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN. IN THE FIRST MOVIE, HE NOT THAT MERYL STREEP’S DONNA WAS THE FIRST AND LAST WOMAN HE EVER LOVED—THEN FDS ROMANCE WH ONE OF HIS DGHTER’S WEDDG GUTS. (EXCELLENT PICKUP GAME, HARRY.) THE SEQUEL, HOWEVER, FDS HIM STILL SGLE, 10 (OR . . . SOME NUMBER OF) YEARS LATER.WHEN ASKED DURG A BS MEETG IF HE HAS ANY FAY, HARRY WISTFULLY REPLI THAT HE HAS A DGHTER. APPARENTLY, THERE’S NO ONE ELSE HIS LIFE. PERHAPS HARRY HAS VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN SGLEDOM; EHER WAY, AS A MOMENT LATER THE FILM— WHICH HE TI HIMSELF TO A CHAIR WKGLY—IMPLI, HARRY MIGHT GET TO A LTLE LIGHT BONDAGE HIS SPARE TIME. SO AT LEAST WE KNOW HE’S NOT TOTALLY WANTG FOR PANY. (ALSO, THOSE WHO STICK AROUND FOR THE AFTER-CREDS SCENE WILL KNOW THAT HARRY HAS AT LEAST ONE MORE ADMIRER THIS FILM AS WELL—WHETHER OR NOT HE RECIPROT THAT AFFECTN.STILL, A FILM THAT CELEBRAT ROMANCE BETWEEN BASILLY ALL OF S CHARACTERS, ’S KD OF A BUMMER TO SEE THE ANCHISE’S ONE OPENLY GAY CHARACTER REMA PERPETUALLY SGLE. BY THE END OF MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGA, BASILLY EVERYONE ELSE IS PAIRED OFF. HARRY’S MAYBE-DGHTER SOPHIE (AMANDA SEYIED) HAS SKY (DOMIC COOPER), HER ONCE AND FUTURE BELOVED; CHER’S GRANDMOTHER CHARACTER, RUBY, HAS HER LONG-LOST LOVE, FERNANDO (ANDY GARCíA); STELLAN SKARSGåRD’S OUTSTANDG SWE CHARACTER, BILL, HAS ROSIE (JULIE WALTERS). PIERCE BROSNAN’S CHARACTER, SAM, HAD DONNA—YOU KNOW, BEFORE SHE DIED. EVEN CHRISTE BARANSKI’S LOTHAR, TANYA, GETS IMPLICLY PAIRED OFF BY THE END—WH A VERY UNEXPECTED GUT STAR. HARRY, MEANWHILE, IS LEFT TO REVEL EVERYONE ELSE’S HAPPS—ALTHOUGH HE AND BILL DO, AT ONE POT, SHARE A TANIC-SPOOFG MOMENT THAT WILL STAND AS ONE OF THE FILM’S GREATT HIGHLIGHTS.IT ULD EASILY BE A CINCE THAT HARRY DON’T GET A ROMANCE—BUT DON’T HE SERVE BETTER? AS THE SECURY GUARD ON THE DOCKS NOT, AGE BE HIM—LIKE A FE WE OR CHEE. HARRY IS HANDSOME, TELLIGENT, KD, WELL-OFF—AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, ONE GREE OF SEPARATN OM CHER. IF HE N’T FD TE LOVE OUT THERE, WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR THE RT OF ?MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLRA BRADLEY

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeCol Firth has said that he remas uncid on whether is right for straight actors to portray gay will be starrg oppose Stanley Tucci as a gay uple the forthg film Supernova.

The drama foc on the two men who embark on a road trip together after Tucci’s character is diagnosed wh early-onset an terview wh Attu, the actor was qutned on whether he believed was right for him, a straight man, to take on a gay cled to give an opn eher way. ” Firth starred oppose Julianne Moore ‘A Sgle Man’ as Gee FalnerIn 2009’s’s crilly acclaimed drama A Sgle Man, Firth also portrayed a gay character. ” said the Kgsman -star Tucci add: “For so many years, gay men and women have had to hi their homosexualy showbs to get the rol they wanted – that’s the problem here.

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

Speakg on Piers Man Uncensored, Everett, 62, discsed the topic of straight actors playg gay characters.

While he said he did not thk gay rol need to be played exclively by gay actors, he seemed irked by Firth’s role as a gay man the 2009 drama. ”Everett, who first found fame playg a gay public school pupil 1984 drama Another Country, has prevly said he believed g out harmed his Hollywood reer. “I don’t thk gay actors should jt play the gay rol, ” he said.

‘SUPERNOVA’ TRAILER: COL FIRTH, STANLEY TUCCI WILL BREAK YOUR HEART THIS GAY TEARJERKER

“I thk that the gay actors should be able to play the straight rol too, I thk some straight guys played great gay rol. Everett told Man: “I thk the qutn is more ‘Why n’t gay actors play straight rol?

It’s great for gay actors who’ve had que a hard time, you know historilly, to be playg more rol to be gettg the game. ” (BBC)Everett has also prevly been cril of the transgenr muny, argug that the transgenr movement has “pletely overshadowed” the mpaign for gay rights. Col Firth received a bt actor Osr nod for his role as a grievg gay profsor Tom Ford's 'A Sgle Man, ' but he acknowledg that his performance did nothg to help gay actors land the plum rol, gay or straight, Hollywood.

Firth told reporters at the movie's UK premiere that a gay actor g out Hollywood fac profsnal risks that may not be worth takg.

"There might be risks for a gay actor g out, " he said. "If you're known as a straight guy, playg a gay role, you get reward for that.

If you're a gay man and you want to play a straight role, you don't get st -- and if a gay man wants to play a gay role now, you don't get st. "In December Rupert Everett, who is openly gay, said much of the same, advisg gay actors to stay the closet if they wanted a big reer. Col Firth shar thoughts on straight actors playg gay characters: ‘What do I know about this person’s life?