Ja McTeer, the Albert Nobbs -star plays gay aga and sets lbian hearts a-flutter.
Contents:
- OUTTAK: JA MCTEER ON DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND HER FIRST GAY IEND
- JA MCTEER DELIGHTED BY 'ALBERT NOBBS' GAY AND LBIAN SUPPORT/WILL KRISTA SMH'S 'OUT OF CHARACTER' JO LATE NIGHT ROSTER?
OUTTAK: JA MCTEER ON DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND HER FIRST GAY IEND
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Ja McTeerJa McTeer, the Albert Nobbs -star plays gay aga and sets lbian hearts a-flutter. McTeer, 50, noted for her selectn of uber-challengg rol, has never played FTM transgenr — but she certaly has played gay before.
The only thg she has mon wh the Hubert character is that they’re both gay. I also asked McTeer a qutn I equently pose to straight actors I terview: “Do you remember the first time a gay person me out to you?
“I remember the first person who me out to me who I knew was gay and other people didn’t asmuch as I gused that they were gay.
JA MCTEER DELIGHTED BY 'ALBERT NOBBS' GAY AND LBIAN SUPPORT/WILL KRISTA SMH'S 'OUT OF CHARACTER' JO LATE NIGHT ROSTER?
When I went to llege, I met a lot of gay people and felt like they were the odd on out. There was a lot of gay-bashg.
I felt that that was somethg I very, very, very much related to, on a very ep sort of emotnal many, many years, people thought I was gay and I never once put anyone right. Mostly I ed to thk, “Do you not hontly thk that if I was gay, given the parts that I play, do you not thk I’d be standg up and shoutg that out loud? ” I’m hopefully a good actrs, who’s playg good characters, whether they’re straight or gay or transgenr or you were playg Hubert, a woman livg as a man 19th-century Dubl “Albert Nobbs, ” did you feel like you learned anythg about what ’s like beg a man?