Viggo Mortensen on cricism over gay role: 'You’re assumg I’m pletely straight'

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• VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?
• VIGGO MORTENSEN HAS 'FRANK' RPONSE WHEN ASKED ABOUT PLAYG A GAY MAN IN HIS NEW MOVIE
• VIGGO MORTENSEN SUGGTS HE’S ‘NOT PLETELY STRAIGHT’ AS HE FENDS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER NEW MOVIE
• THE HOLLYWOOD STRAIGHTS ARE MAKG BAD GAY MOVI AGAFESTIVAL GAZEOPNPHOTOS URTY TIFFARMED WH GOOD TENTNS AND OSR HOP, BOTH MARK WAHLBERG AND VIGGO MORTENSEN STAR NEW LGBT MOVI THAT, YET AGA, ME QUEER PA AND TRAGEDY FOR HETERO REMPTN.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED SEP. 16, 2020 4:38AM EDT GOOD JOE BELL IS THE KD OF FILM WHICH EVERYTHG OM THE SCREENPLAY TO THE PERFORMANC AND THE STORY THAT ’S BASED ON ARE ALL MELTED TOGETHER SOME CEMATIC BLACKSMH’S SHOP TO FE A SLEDGEHAMMER SPECIFILLY MEANT TO PUMMEL YOUR HEART TO PIEC.THE FILM, WHICH PREMIERED THIS WEEK AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL, CERTALY DO JT THAT—THOUGH THE WAY WIELDS THAT CLUB, LIKE OTHER FILMS AT THIS YEAR’S VIRTUAL EVENT, RAIS SOME NCERNS ALONG THE WAY. THE BTE FORCE MISS THE POT.IN 2013, JAD BELL, A 15-YEAR-OLD LA GRAN, OREGON, MTED SUICI AFTER THE HORRIFIC BULLYG HE ENDURED BEE HE WAS GAY. THE TRAGEDY GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN AT A CRISIS MOMENT FOR YOUTH AND GAY BULLYG AND THE ALARMG SPIKE LGBT+ TEEN SUICI RAT. BELL’S STORY BEME EVEN MORE HIGH-PROFILE SIX MONTHS LATER WHEN HIS FATHER, JOE, EMBARKED ON A WALK ACROSS AMERI OM OREGON TO NEW YORK CY, WHERE JAD ONE DAY WANTED TO END UP, ON A MISSN TO RAISE AWARENS FOR THE DANGERS OF BULLYG AND START A DIALOGUE ABOUT CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE. JOE’S WALK END WHEN HE WAS STCK BY A TCK ON THE SI OF THE ROAD COLORADO, DYG AT THE SCENE.  IT’S HEARTBREAK POUND BY HORROR AMPLIFIED BY DOOM, A WRENCHG TALE THAT SCREENWRERS LARRY MCMURTRY AND DIANA OSSANA, RNG 15 YEARS AFTER THEIR OSR-WNG BROKEBACK MOUNTA SCRIPT, WRG EVERY POSSIBLE TEAR AND TRMA OM. IT’S BOTH CLEVER AND CEL THAT THE FILM, DIRECTED BY REALDO MARC GREEN, BEGS THE NARRATIVE WH THE FANTASY-FULFILLMENT OF JAD EMBARKG ON THE WALK WH JOE, AS IF WERE A BONDG JOURNEY FOR A FATHER AND HIS GAY SON WHOSE RELATNSHIP TURNED ROCKY AFTER THE G-OUT; A WALK TOWARD FIVENS, UNRSTANDG, AND AMENDS.  ESPECIALLY IF YOU WEREN’T ALREADY FAIAR WH THE BELL STORY, THE CRASS “TWIST” THAT THE JAD YOU’RE SEEG WH JOE IS MERELY A SPIR GUI AND THAT THE TEEN ACTUALLY HANGED HIMSELF A SCHOOL PLAYGROUND SIX MONTHS PRR SWGS LIKE AN EMOTNAL WRECKG BALL. THERE’S A LITE WALL ERECTED BETWEEN HUMAN SIGHT AND THE EXPLOATN OF QUEER PA, AND THE FILM BASH STRAIGHT THROUGH . IS POSSIBLE TO DO THE MENTAL AND EMOTNAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED TO NTEXTUALIZE THIS MONUMENTAL TRAGEDY OF A GAY TEEN AND THE LGBT SUICI EPIMIC THROUGH THE GAZE OF A STRAIGHT DAD’S MORAL REMPTN? JT AS THEY DID WH GREEN BOOK’S RACE RELATNS, WE EXPECT DIENC WILL BE MORE THAN AGILE THAT REGARD. THERE’S VALUE THAT EMOTNAL SATISFACTN.BUT SPEAKS TO THE HERENT TENSN THAT A FILM LIKE THIS IS PLITED TO DISCS.THIS STARTED BEFORE THE FILM EVEN PREMIERED AT TIFF, WHEN WAS ANNOUNCED THAT MARK WAHLBERG WAS ST AS JOE BELL. A NOTORLY MACHO HOLLYWOOD STAR LIKE WAHLBERG IS EXACTLY THE KD OF STG EXPECTED AND ARGUABLY REQUIRED FOR JOE, AND THE FILM IS CENTERED AROUND THE ACTOR’S ENGAGED AND EPLY FELT PERFORMANCE. BUT THE OPTICS STILL SEEM QUTNABLE TO MANY.  ADVERTISEMENT ON TWTER, PEOPLE POTED OUT LONGSTANDG MORS THAT WAHLBERG ALLEGEDLY TURNED DOWN BROKEBACK MOUNTA BEE HE WAS “CREEPED OUT” BY THE NTENT OF THE SCRIPT. RECENTLY, AFTER HE POSTED SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIV MATTER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MENTERS LLED OUT HIS PAST HATE-CRIME NVICTN. WAHLBERG HAS SPOKEN OVER THE YEARS ABOUT HIS REGRET, EVOLUTN, AND PATH TO REMPTN, AND ARGUABLY THAT PATH ULD CLU AN ART-IMATG-LIFE ARC LIKE THE ONE JOE BELL JOURNEYS THIS FILM. THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE.   “THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE.” WHETHER ANY OF THIS IS A ROADBLOCK TO ENJOYG OR BEG TOUCHED BY THE FILM REMAS TO BE SEEN. THE ACTG, PECIALLY OM NEWER REID MILLER AS JAD, IS EXCELLENT. AND WE SPECT NARROW MDS WILL SURELY BE OPENED BY S POIGNANT, IF HEAVY-HAND, MSAGE, JT AS WE EXPECT THERE TO BE EXASPERATN OVER THIS BEG HOW THIS STORY IS CENTERED AND TOLD. IT’S TERTG TO LOOK AT GOOD JOE BELL AS A PANN PIECE TO FALLG, WHICH ALSO PLAYED AT THIS YEAR’S FTIVAL. (FATHERS AND THEIR GAY SONS ARE REALLY GOG THROUGH THIS YEAR AT TIFF.) ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM WAS WRTEN, DIRECTED BY AND STARS VIGGO MORTENSEN. IT NTU S FTIVAL N AND AWARDS HOP AFTER A BUT THIS WTER AT SUNDANCE, AND IS SCEPTIBLE TO THE SAME CRICISM AND PRAISE THAT MAK GOOD JOE BELL SUCH A LIGHTNG ROD. AS HE TOLD VARIETY, MORTENSEN WAS SPIRED TO WRE FALLG AFTER THE ATH OF HIS MOTHER, A TRAGEDY THAT FOUND HIM SPELUNKG BURIED MEMORI OF LIFE WH HER AND HIS FATHER, REMEMBRANC THAT WERE THEN TRANSPOSED THROUGH THE LENS OF A FICTNAL FAY BEE, HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, “AS THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER FRANCIS BAN ONCE SAID: ‘TTH IS SO HARD TO TELL, SOMETIM NEEDS FICTN TO MAKE PLSIBLE.’” THAT FICTN IS THE STORY OF A GAY MAN NAMED JOHN, PLAYED BY MORTENSEN, LIVG CALIFORNIA WH HIS HBAND AND THEIR DGHTER. HIS FATHER IS SUFFERG OM THE ONSET OF MENTIA AND IS STGGLG TO KEEP UP THE FAY FARM ALONE, SO JOHN BOTH HOSTS HIS DAD CALIFORNIA AND STAYS WH HIM AT THE FARM. THE SUDN PROXIMY FORC THEM TO NONT THEIR NTENT RELATNSHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN LORED BY HOMOPHOBIA, RENTMENT, AND ABANDONMENT.  LIKE GOOD JOE BELL, IS AFFECTG. THANKS TO A TOWERG PERFORMANCE BY LANCE HENRIKSEN AS JOHN’S FATHER, ULD BE AN EYE-OPENG ENTRéE TO THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF TWO MEN FORCED TO EVOLVE TOGETHER RELUCTANTLY, BOUND BY FAY DUTY AND BOND TO FD MON GROUND THE FACE OF SPE, ANGER, AND HURT. YET THERE ARE ALSO STRANGE OPTICS HERE.WHY, FICTNALIZG HIS FAY’S STORY, WOULD MORTENSEN MAKE HIS STAND- CHARACTER GAY, TH FORCG ALL OF THE DRAMATIC TENSN TO ORB AROUND HIO, BIGOTED OUTBURSTS OM HENRIKSEN’S CHARACTER? HE SPEWS AN ARTILLERY OF HOMOPHOBIC, EMASCULATG, AND OFFENSIVE DIALOGUE THAT, WHILE BELIEVABLE FOR A CHARACTER OF HIS AGE AND UPBRGG, IS NOHELS UPSETTG TO WNS AND HEAR.  ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM IS A STRONG DIRECTORIAL BUT AND REHGLY UNPRETENT. BUT WHY THIS PARTICULAR BRAND OF UGLS? WHY THIS STORY? THE NVERSATN OF WHO SHOULD BE TELLG THE STORI OF THOSE WHO ARE MARGALIZED AND UNRREPRENTED IS A PLITED AND ONGOG ONE, AND NEHER OF THE FILMS ARE GOG TO SATISFY THOSE TIRED OF WATCHG THE STGGLE FOR QUEER ACCEPTANCE FILTERED THROUGH STRAIGHT CHARACTERS’ JOURNEYS AND CRAFTED BY STRAIGHT CREATIVE TEAMS. THAT SHOULDN’T WHOLLY DISUNT ANY OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FILMS, BUT ’S A WORTHY NSIRATN. THE TTH IS THAT GOOD JOE BELL DO SPEND TIME FLASHBACKS ATTEMPTG TO ADD HUMANY AND NTEXT TO JAD’S LIFE BEFORE HIS SUICI, THOUGH THOSE FLASHBACKS ARE RELENTLS THEIR NEGATIVY AND TRMA. AND A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO PROCSG HIS SON’S ATH AND WHETHER HE WAS SUPPORTIVE ENOUGH WHEN HE WAS ALIVE IS A VALID AND EARNED STORY, PECIALLY WHEN TO JOE BELL, WHO TRANSFERRED THAT TERNAL RECKONG TO A PUBLIC-SERVICE MISSN BEFORE HIS OWN SUDN ATH.  WE’RE STCK BY HOW, EVEN A VIRTUAL AND SMALLER-SLE FTIVAL SEASON, THERE ARE ACTUALLY A BREADTH OF OPTNS WHEN TO THE TELLG OF QUEER STORI, A SUATN WHICH ALLOWS FOR MORE EXPANSIVE THKG AND GENEROSY THAN WHEN THERE ARE ONLY ISOLATED PROJECTS TO WATCH. FRANCIS LEE’S AMMONE, STARRG KATE WSLET AND SAOIRSE RONAN, IS REHGLY SUAL AND ANK ABOUT SIRE AND SEX. IN ADDN TO BEG ONE OF THE STRONGT FILMS PLAYG AT TIFF THIS YEAR, SUMMER OF 85, OM FRENCH DIRECTOR FRANçOIS OZON, IS A SUMPTUO AND SIGHTFUL LENS TO THE UNSETTLG AND VIGORATG THRILL OF TEEN SEXUALY AND LOVE.  ADVERTISEMENT THERE’S A LOT TO CHOOSE OM. THE QUTN IS, AS ALWAYS, WHAT WILL—AND WHAT SERV TO—BE AMPLIFIED. KEV FALLON
• VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE IN NEW FILM 'FALLG'
• VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER IN HIS NEW MOVIE
• IS VIGGO MORTENSEN GAY?
• VIGGO MORTENSEN RPONDS TO CRICISM OVER GAY ROLE: ‘YOU’RE ASSUMG I’M PLETELY STRAIGHT’
• VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS PLAYG A GAY MAN: 'MAYBE I AM, MAYBE I'M NOT' COMPLETELY STRAIGHT

VIGGO MORTENSEN EX WIFE EXENE CERVENKA AND RELATNSHIP TIMELE, WHAT ABOUT THE GAY RUMORS?

Viggo Mortensen got married to Exene Cervenka spe the mor of beg gay about him. Is Viggo Mortensen Gay In Real Life?

Mortensen told The Inpennt that he "wouldn't nceive of askg someone what their sexual orientatn or intifitn was" if he were hired a gay character. In addn, he said, "I also don't believe that actors who intify as homosexual exclively want to perform gay rol. Viggo Mortensen suggted the possibily that he might not be "pletely straight" rponse to cricism that he is playg Lord of the Rgs star portrays a gay role, John, a new film he penned, Fallg, which is also his directorial but.

VIGGO MORTENSEN HAS 'FRANK' RPONSE WHEN ASKED ABOUT PLAYG A GAY MAN IN HIS NEW MOVIE

The movie tells the story of John's relatnship wh his antigay father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), who mov to Los Angel to jo his son after a mentia diagnosis. He said nversatns about stg are "healthy" but he "didn't thk was a problem" about his own portrayal of a gay role. "People then ask me, "Well what about Terry Chen, who plays my hband the film, is he a homosexual?

"Mortensen's remarks e at a time of creased bate over the appropriatens of straight actors portrayg gay rol. This week, Jam Corn has been slammed for portrayg the "worst gayface" Netflix's The Prom.

Historilly, out actors were ls likely to be st starrg rol, even gay on, as this list of 61 straight people who received Osr nomatns for LGBTQ+ rol attts. In the movie Mortensen is also playg a gay man, and he recently shared a ank rponse regardg backlash over his the past few years, there's been a ton of nversatn the film dtry about cln and visibily.

VIGGO MORTENSEN SUGGTS HE’S ‘NOT PLETELY STRAIGHT’ AS HE FENDS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER NEW MOVIE

And people then ask me, 'Well what about Terry Chen, who plays my hband the film, is he a homosexual? The actor directs and stars Fallg, a drama about a homophobic elrly man (Lance Henriksen) who is rned wh his adult gay son after he shows signs of mentia. Viggo went on: ‘People then ask me, “Well what about Terry Chen, who plays my hband the film, is he a homosexual?

Addnally Col Firth gave his thoughts on straight actors playg gay characters the wake of his role Supernova, which he and Stanley Tucci play a married uple.

(New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. “The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, ” said Cristian González Cabrera, LGBT rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Sat Vcent and the Grenad is one of six untri the Wtern Hemisphere that still crimaliz gay sex.

THE HOLLYWOOD STRAIGHTS ARE MAKG BAD GAY MOVI AGAFESTIVAL GAZEOPNPHOTOS URTY TIFFARMED WH GOOD TENTNS AND OSR HOP, BOTH MARK WAHLBERG AND VIGGO MORTENSEN STAR NEW LGBT MOVI THAT, YET AGA, ME QUEER PA AND TRAGEDY FOR HETERO REMPTN.KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDPUBLISHED SEP. 16, 2020 4:38AM EDT GOOD JOE BELL IS THE KD OF FILM WHICH EVERYTHG OM THE SCREENPLAY TO THE PERFORMANC AND THE STORY THAT ’S BASED ON ARE ALL MELTED TOGETHER SOME CEMATIC BLACKSMH’S SHOP TO FE A SLEDGEHAMMER SPECIFILLY MEANT TO PUMMEL YOUR HEART TO PIEC.THE FILM, WHICH PREMIERED THIS WEEK AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL, CERTALY DO JT THAT—THOUGH THE WAY WIELDS THAT CLUB, LIKE OTHER FILMS AT THIS YEAR’S VIRTUAL EVENT, RAIS SOME NCERNS ALONG THE WAY. THE BTE FORCE MISS THE POT.IN 2013, JAD BELL, A 15-YEAR-OLD LA GRAN, OREGON, MTED SUICI AFTER THE HORRIFIC BULLYG HE ENDURED BEE HE WAS GAY. THE TRAGEDY GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN AT A CRISIS MOMENT FOR YOUTH AND GAY BULLYG AND THE ALARMG SPIKE LGBT+ TEEN SUICI RAT. BELL’S STORY BEME EVEN MORE HIGH-PROFILE SIX MONTHS LATER WHEN HIS FATHER, JOE, EMBARKED ON A WALK ACROSS AMERI OM OREGON TO NEW YORK CY, WHERE JAD ONE DAY WANTED TO END UP, ON A MISSN TO RAISE AWARENS FOR THE DANGERS OF BULLYG AND START A DIALOGUE ABOUT CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE. JOE’S WALK END WHEN HE WAS STCK BY A TCK ON THE SI OF THE ROAD COLORADO, DYG AT THE SCENE.  IT’S HEARTBREAK POUND BY HORROR AMPLIFIED BY DOOM, A WRENCHG TALE THAT SCREENWRERS LARRY MCMURTRY AND DIANA OSSANA, RNG 15 YEARS AFTER THEIR OSR-WNG BROKEBACK MOUNTA SCRIPT, WRG EVERY POSSIBLE TEAR AND TRMA OM. IT’S BOTH CLEVER AND CEL THAT THE FILM, DIRECTED BY REALDO MARC GREEN, BEGS THE NARRATIVE WH THE FANTASY-FULFILLMENT OF JAD EMBARKG ON THE WALK WH JOE, AS IF WERE A BONDG JOURNEY FOR A FATHER AND HIS GAY SON WHOSE RELATNSHIP TURNED ROCKY AFTER THE G-OUT; A WALK TOWARD FIVENS, UNRSTANDG, AND AMENDS.  ESPECIALLY IF YOU WEREN’T ALREADY FAIAR WH THE BELL STORY, THE CRASS “TWIST” THAT THE JAD YOU’RE SEEG WH JOE IS MERELY A SPIR GUI AND THAT THE TEEN ACTUALLY HANGED HIMSELF A SCHOOL PLAYGROUND SIX MONTHS PRR SWGS LIKE AN EMOTNAL WRECKG BALL. THERE’S A LITE WALL ERECTED BETWEEN HUMAN SIGHT AND THE EXPLOATN OF QUEER PA, AND THE FILM BASH STRAIGHT THROUGH . IS POSSIBLE TO DO THE MENTAL AND EMOTNAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED TO NTEXTUALIZE THIS MONUMENTAL TRAGEDY OF A GAY TEEN AND THE LGBT SUICI EPIMIC THROUGH THE GAZE OF A STRAIGHT DAD’S MORAL REMPTN? JT AS THEY DID WH GREEN BOOK’S RACE RELATNS, WE EXPECT DIENC WILL BE MORE THAN AGILE THAT REGARD. THERE’S VALUE THAT EMOTNAL SATISFACTN.BUT SPEAKS TO THE HERENT TENSN THAT A FILM LIKE THIS IS PLITED TO DISCS.THIS STARTED BEFORE THE FILM EVEN PREMIERED AT TIFF, WHEN WAS ANNOUNCED THAT MARK WAHLBERG WAS ST AS JOE BELL. A NOTORLY MACHO HOLLYWOOD STAR LIKE WAHLBERG IS EXACTLY THE KD OF STG EXPECTED AND ARGUABLY REQUIRED FOR JOE, AND THE FILM IS CENTERED AROUND THE ACTOR’S ENGAGED AND EPLY FELT PERFORMANCE. BUT THE OPTICS STILL SEEM QUTNABLE TO MANY.  ADVERTISEMENT ON TWTER, PEOPLE POTED OUT LONGSTANDG MORS THAT WAHLBERG ALLEGEDLY TURNED DOWN BROKEBACK MOUNTA BEE HE WAS “CREEPED OUT” BY THE NTENT OF THE SCRIPT. RECENTLY, AFTER HE POSTED SUPPORT FOR BLACK LIV MATTER ON SOCIAL MEDIA, MENTERS LLED OUT HIS PAST HATE-CRIME NVICTN. WAHLBERG HAS SPOKEN OVER THE YEARS ABOUT HIS REGRET, EVOLUTN, AND PATH TO REMPTN, AND ARGUABLY THAT PATH ULD CLU AN ART-IMATG-LIFE ARC LIKE THE ONE JOE BELL JOURNEYS THIS FILM. THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE.   “THERE ARE STILL THOSE CRICS, HOWEVER, WHO FD OBTE TO ST AN ACTOR WH THAT PAST A MOVIE THAT MEMORIALIZ A GAY TEEN’S SUICI WH A MSAGE OF CLIVY AND ACCEPTANCE.” WHETHER ANY OF THIS IS A ROADBLOCK TO ENJOYG OR BEG TOUCHED BY THE FILM REMAS TO BE SEEN. THE ACTG, PECIALLY OM NEWER REID MILLER AS JAD, IS EXCELLENT. AND WE SPECT NARROW MDS WILL SURELY BE OPENED BY S POIGNANT, IF HEAVY-HAND, MSAGE, JT AS WE EXPECT THERE TO BE EXASPERATN OVER THIS BEG HOW THIS STORY IS CENTERED AND TOLD. IT’S TERTG TO LOOK AT GOOD JOE BELL AS A PANN PIECE TO FALLG, WHICH ALSO PLAYED AT THIS YEAR’S FTIVAL. (FATHERS AND THEIR GAY SONS ARE REALLY GOG THROUGH THIS YEAR AT TIFF.) ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM WAS WRTEN, DIRECTED BY AND STARS VIGGO MORTENSEN. IT NTU S FTIVAL N AND AWARDS HOP AFTER A BUT THIS WTER AT SUNDANCE, AND IS SCEPTIBLE TO THE SAME CRICISM AND PRAISE THAT MAK GOOD JOE BELL SUCH A LIGHTNG ROD. AS HE TOLD VARIETY, MORTENSEN WAS SPIRED TO WRE FALLG AFTER THE ATH OF HIS MOTHER, A TRAGEDY THAT FOUND HIM SPELUNKG BURIED MEMORI OF LIFE WH HER AND HIS FATHER, REMEMBRANC THAT WERE THEN TRANSPOSED THROUGH THE LENS OF A FICTNAL FAY BEE, HE TOLD THE PUBLITN, “AS THE ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER FRANCIS BAN ONCE SAID: ‘TTH IS SO HARD TO TELL, SOMETIM NEEDS FICTN TO MAKE PLSIBLE.’” THAT FICTN IS THE STORY OF A GAY MAN NAMED JOHN, PLAYED BY MORTENSEN, LIVG CALIFORNIA WH HIS HBAND AND THEIR DGHTER. HIS FATHER IS SUFFERG OM THE ONSET OF MENTIA AND IS STGGLG TO KEEP UP THE FAY FARM ALONE, SO JOHN BOTH HOSTS HIS DAD CALIFORNIA AND STAYS WH HIM AT THE FARM. THE SUDN PROXIMY FORC THEM TO NONT THEIR NTENT RELATNSHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN LORED BY HOMOPHOBIA, RENTMENT, AND ABANDONMENT.  LIKE GOOD JOE BELL, IS AFFECTG. THANKS TO A TOWERG PERFORMANCE BY LANCE HENRIKSEN AS JOHN’S FATHER, ULD BE AN EYE-OPENG ENTRéE TO THE PLITED DYNAMICS OF TWO MEN FORCED TO EVOLVE TOGETHER RELUCTANTLY, BOUND BY FAY DUTY AND BOND TO FD MON GROUND THE FACE OF SPE, ANGER, AND HURT. YET THERE ARE ALSO STRANGE OPTICS HERE.WHY, FICTNALIZG HIS FAY’S STORY, WOULD MORTENSEN MAKE HIS STAND- CHARACTER GAY, TH FORCG ALL OF THE DRAMATIC TENSN TO ORB AROUND HIO, BIGOTED OUTBURSTS OM HENRIKSEN’S CHARACTER? HE SPEWS AN ARTILLERY OF HOMOPHOBIC, EMASCULATG, AND OFFENSIVE DIALOGUE THAT, WHILE BELIEVABLE FOR A CHARACTER OF HIS AGE AND UPBRGG, IS NOHELS UPSETTG TO WNS AND HEAR.  ADVERTISEMENT THE FILM IS A STRONG DIRECTORIAL BUT AND REHGLY UNPRETENT. BUT WHY THIS PARTICULAR BRAND OF UGLS? WHY THIS STORY? THE NVERSATN OF WHO SHOULD BE TELLG THE STORI OF THOSE WHO ARE MARGALIZED AND UNRREPRENTED IS A PLITED AND ONGOG ONE, AND NEHER OF THE FILMS ARE GOG TO SATISFY THOSE TIRED OF WATCHG THE STGGLE FOR QUEER ACCEPTANCE FILTERED THROUGH STRAIGHT CHARACTERS’ JOURNEYS AND CRAFTED BY STRAIGHT CREATIVE TEAMS. THAT SHOULDN’T WHOLLY DISUNT ANY OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FILMS, BUT ’S A WORTHY NSIRATN. THE TTH IS THAT GOOD JOE BELL DO SPEND TIME FLASHBACKS ATTEMPTG TO ADD HUMANY AND NTEXT TO JAD’S LIFE BEFORE HIS SUICI, THOUGH THOSE FLASHBACKS ARE RELENTLS THEIR NEGATIVY AND TRMA. AND A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO PROCSG HIS SON’S ATH AND WHETHER HE WAS SUPPORTIVE ENOUGH WHEN HE WAS ALIVE IS A VALID AND EARNED STORY, PECIALLY WHEN TO JOE BELL, WHO TRANSFERRED THAT TERNAL RECKONG TO A PUBLIC-SERVICE MISSN BEFORE HIS OWN SUDN ATH.  WE’RE STCK BY HOW, EVEN A VIRTUAL AND SMALLER-SLE FTIVAL SEASON, THERE ARE ACTUALLY A BREADTH OF OPTNS WHEN TO THE TELLG OF QUEER STORI, A SUATN WHICH ALLOWS FOR MORE EXPANSIVE THKG AND GENEROSY THAN WHEN THERE ARE ONLY ISOLATED PROJECTS TO WATCH. FRANCIS LEE’S AMMONE, STARRG KATE WSLET AND SAOIRSE RONAN, IS REHGLY SUAL AND ANK ABOUT SIRE AND SEX. IN ADDN TO BEG ONE OF THE STRONGT FILMS PLAYG AT TIFF THIS YEAR, SUMMER OF 85, OM FRENCH DIRECTOR FRANçOIS OZON, IS A SUMPTUO AND SIGHTFUL LENS TO THE UNSETTLG AND VIGORATG THRILL OF TEEN SEXUALY AND LOVE.  ADVERTISEMENT THERE’S A LOT TO CHOOSE OM. THE QUTN IS, AS ALWAYS, WHAT WILL—AND WHAT SERV TO—BE AMPLIFIED. KEV FALLON

The laws sgle out nsensual gay sex the “sexual offenc” sectn of the crimal that is otherwise rerved for crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt.

VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY ROLE IN NEW FILM 'FALLG'

While there have been no recent reported nvictns on the basis of the crimal provisns for nsensual gay sex, the laws stigmatize LGBT people and create an obstacle to full equaly. The other untri the regn that still crimalize gay sex are Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia. As a 25-year-old gay man om Sat Vcent told Human Rights Watch, “People feel they n harass bee of the laws.

VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER IN HIS NEW MOVIE

If people are havg an argument, that’s [their] jtifitn for homophobia. Some said that fay rejectn was often uched moralistic terms, echog the homophobic rhetoric preached some church, which are a rnerstone of social life and shape social attus Sat Vcent and the Grenad.

Every LGBT person terviewed said they wished to leave the untry and envisned their future abroad due, part, to the homophobic or transphobic vlence and discrimatn the untry.

IS VIGGO MORTENSEN GAY?

The bte force miss the 2013, Jad Bell, a 15-year-old La Gran, Oregon, mted suici after the horrific bullyg he endured bee he was gay. The tragedy garnered natnal attentn at a crisis moment for youth and gay bullyg and the alarmg spike LGBT+ teen suici rat.

It’s both clever and cel that the film, directed by Realdo Marc Green, begs the narrative wh the fantasy-fulfillment of Jad embarkg on the walk wh Joe, as if were a bondg journey for a father and his gay son whose relatnship turned rocky after the g-out; a walk toward fivens, unrstandg, and amends. Is possible to do the mental and emotnal gymnastics required to ntextualize this monumental tragedy of a gay teen and the LGBT suici epimic through the gaze of a straight dad’s moral remptn?

There are still those crics, however, who fd obte to st an actor wh that past a movie that memorializ a gay teen’s suici wh a msage of clivy and acceptance. “There are still those crics, however, who fd obte to st an actor wh that past a movie that memorializ a gay teen’s suici wh a msage of clivy and acceptance.

VIGGO MORTENSEN RPONDS TO CRICISM OVER GAY ROLE: ‘YOU’RE ASSUMG I’M PLETELY STRAIGHT’

(Fathers and their gay sons are really gog through this year at TIFF. ’” That fictn is the story of a gay man named John, played by Mortensen, livg California wh his hband and their dghter. The sudn proximy forc them to nont their ntent relatnship, which has been lored by homophobia, rentment, and abandonment.

VIGGO MORTENSEN DEFENDS PLAYG A GAY MAN: 'MAYBE I AM, MAYBE I'M NOT' COMPLETELY STRAIGHT

Yet there are also strange optics, fictnalizg his fay’s story, would Mortensen make his stand- character gay, th forcg all of the dramatic tensn to orb around hio, bigoted outbursts om Henriksen’s character? He spews an artillery of homophobic, emasculatg, and offensive dialogue that, while believable for a character of his age and upbrgg, is nohels upsettg to wns and hear.

LONDON, Nov 9 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Armed wh a retort volvg proctologists, Osr-nomated actor Viggo Mortensen is prepared for cricism of his cisn - as a straight man - to play a gay character his directorial but, which premier Bra on Monday.

Mortensen, bt known for his portrayal of Aragorn the “Lord of the Rgs” trilogy, said he was jokg, but wanted to make the pot that actors are actors - simply playg a role whether a gay man or a proctologist. “Fallg” tells the story of John’s racist and homophobic father Willis, played by Lance Henriksen, who mov om his ral farm to live wh his son Los Angel when he starts showg early signs of mentia.