Col Firth and Stanley Tucci discs their ntroversial choice to play gay characters 'Supernova'

Contents:

• COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• COL FIRTH: I'M PART OF HOLLYWOOD'S GAY PROBLEM
• FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’
• COL FIRTH SHAR THOUGHTS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS: ‘WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PERSON’S LIFE?’
• COL FIRTH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 74 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• '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
• 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 WALSH2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONLRA BRADLEY

COL FIRTH IS UNCID WHETHER STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD 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.

“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.

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

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.

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. 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.

FIRTH: ‘HOLLYWOOD IS FULL OF SECRETLY GAY ACTORS’

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

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

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.

“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?

COL FIRTH GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 74 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

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. Is Col Firth Gay? He is a straight man not gay.

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

The 61-year-old gay actor said that when he met Firth years earlier on the set of 1984’s “Another Country, ” he nursed an unrequed csh on the “Bridget Jon’s Diary” star. Firth plays a homosexual llege profsor his new movie, A Sgle Man, and sists ’s easy for a “straight” man to take on a gay part a high profile film.

But the Br is adamant Hollywood is a much more difficult place for a gay actor, bee they are forced to stay ‘ the closet’ to survive the film bs.

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

He tells Para magaze, “If you’re a straight actor who tak on the role of a gay man, ’s obvly not the same as beg one this bs.

I thk there are still some nstrats agast beg openly gay. There are not a lot of openly gay leadg men. Firth is not the only star speakg out about the subject of gay stars Hollywood, fellow Br Rupert Everett recently revealed he has been shut out of the movie bs sce he ‘me out.

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 WALSH2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONLRA BRADLEY

’ Everett also claims there are many high profile gay actors who are forced to keep their te sexualy a secret orr to protect their reers.

He's also gog to star as gay actor-sger-wrer Noel Coward an upg film tled Mad Dogs and Englishmen. That's right: We're gettg lots of gay Firth love.

The gay dad to be exact.

Col Firth shar thoughts on straight actors playg gay characters: ‘What do I know about this person’s life? Col Firth has opened up on playg a gay character Supernova (Picture: Getty, BFI)Col Firth has shared his thoughts on whether straight actors should play gay characters after starrg as part of a gay uple on Supernova. Col told Attu magaze that he don’t have a ‘fal posn’ on whether straight actors should take on gay characters.

Stanley Tucci (left) and Col (right) play a gay uple Supernova (Picture: BFI)Col has prevly also played a gay man 2010’s A Sgle Man, while Stanley played a gay character The Devil Wears Prada 2006. Stanley 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. Stanley Tucci and Col Firth spent a lot of time together filmg Supernova England's Lake District, a mountao regn ma famo by Romantic poets like William after a full day of filmg the story of Tker (Tucci) and Sam (Firth), a gay uple grapplg wh Tker's mentia diagnosis while on a road trip through the untrysi, the pair sought each other out.

Notwhstandg the power of the film's subject matter and performanc, Supernova out a time when some might prott the stg of two straight men as a gay uple. Jam Corn, particular, was slammed for his portrayal of a gay character The Prom, a flamboyant pictn that was lambasted as "gayface" by and Tucci, both 60, have been the entertament dtry for s -- long enough to remember that was once taboo for any actor to take an LGBTQ+ role. Both have also played gay rol before, to acclaim.