Straight Actors Who Have Played Gay Characters

straight actors who have played gay roles

The bate over whether or not straight actors should play gay rol isn’t gog to die down any time soon.

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STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS

Jam Corn's performance as a gay man "The Prom" was lambasted, but Ewan McGregor's turn "Halston" has been acclaimed. * straight actors who have played gay roles *

"Clive is a gay man who tri to supprs his homosexualy Edwardian-era England. "Roger Ebert wrote: "He plays the role not as a man pretendg to be a woman, and not as a woman trapped a man's body, and not as a parody of a woman, and not as a gay man, but as a drag queen, perd: Lola, a tall, athletic performer thigh-high red boots who l the stage of a drag club as if she were born there, and is a pretty good sger, too. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, were both Osr-nomated for their performanc (Ledger lead, Gyllenhaal supportg) this film about two men fallg love and ntug their affair for film sred 87% on Rotten Tomato, wh the se's cril nsens readg: "A betifully epic Wtern, 'Brokeback Mounta''s gay love story is imbued wh heartbreakg universaly, helped by the movg performanc of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Sean Penn played gay activist Harvey Milk 2008's 'Milk.

20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS

Due to the greater acceptance of homosexualy today's society, we are seeg a rise the reprentatn of gay characters mastream cema. One tertg pot is that often the gay characters are played by straight people. * straight actors who have played gay roles *

Harvey Milk is one of the most important gay activists history, and straight actor Sean Penn won an Osr for playg him.

STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

We loved the straight actors playg gay! * straight actors who have played gay roles *

Col Firth played a gay profsor 'A Sgle Man' 2009. In ‘Philalphia, ’ one of the first mastream Hollywood films to acknowledge issu like HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia, Hanks played the role of Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer.

8 GAY ACTORS WHO PLAYED STRAIGHT CHARACTERS

While straight actors have been known to play gay characters, the same is also te for gay actors playg straight rol.

Le Evans is an openly gay Welsh actor and sger.

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Stanley Tucci don't have issue wh straight actors playg gay .

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