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.
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.
JA MCTEER DELIGHTED BY 'ALBERT NOBBS' GAY AND LBIAN SUPPORT/WILL KRISTA SMH'S 'OUT OF CHARACTER' JO LATE NIGHT ROSTER?
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?
If you asked Hubert if he was gay or straight or transgenr, he’d go, “I don’t know what you’re talkg about, I’m jt me. Although Sandra appears to be gay and reee, Loretta notic an unrcurrent of tensn while... Although Sandra appears to be gay and reee, Loretta notic an unrcurrent of tensn while Sandra stays wh her for a few days.