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Contents:

• IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE
• ‘HALSTON’ CREATOR SAYS EWAN MCGREGOR WAS ALL FOR FILMG GAY SEX SCEN
• EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
• EWAN MCGREGOR LIK TO BE THE MOVI
• EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH
• EWAN MCGREGOR FEND HIS STG AS GAY SIGNER HALSTON RYAN MURPHY'S UPG NETFLIX SHOW
• HALSTON TRAILER: EWAN MCGREGOR STARS AS INIC GAY FASHN SIGNER NEW NETFLIX DRAMA
• EWAN MCGREGOR DEFENDS HIS CASTG AS LEGENDARY GAY DIGNER HALSTON
• JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR

IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

In 'Begners, ' A Gay Man Com Out Late In Life. Six months later, Mills' father — a 75-year-old retired mm director — announced that he's gay.

The movie stars Ewan McGregor as a graphic signer whose 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, has jt e out and wants to experience the gay life he nied himself when he was married. Mills says he remembers the day that his own father took him asi and told him that he didn't jt want to be "theoretilly gay" — that he wanted to do somethg about the feelgs he had reprsed for s.

‘HALSTON’ CREATOR SAYS EWAN MCGREGOR WAS ALL FOR FILMG GAY SEX SCEN

The next day, we're stg on the uch and he said 'I'm gay.

EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS

Unr Ryan Murphy’s producer guidance at Netflix, alongsi Killer Films’ Christe Vachon, “Halston” isn’t aaid to swg big the openg episo, showg some very cheeky and primal gay sex wh the first 10 mut. As part of the actor’s ver story for The Hollywood Reporter, the publitn reports that “McGregor was ncerned that takg on a gay in like Halston might rult a backlash. ” McGregor has played gay characters throughout his reer (see “I Love You Phillip Morris” for starters), but there’s a more heightened awarens the days about straight actors tacklg queer rol.

Straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award. “If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role, ” McGregor add, explag why he felt fortable takg on a gay role “Halston” specifilly.

In a recent terview wh The Hollywood Reporter, the longtime actor known for his inic parts tl like Star Wars and Traspottg and who is portrayg legendary gay, Amerin fashn signer Roy Halston Frowick the upg Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix seri Halston, was asked to weigh on current cultural discsns about non-queer actors takg on queer rol, pecially sce LGBTQ+ actors do not get as many opportuni or cril acclaim as their straight unterparts. \u201c"Straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award.

EWAN MCGREGOR LIK TO BE THE MOVI

1568921205When Emmy wner and Pose star Billy Porter's famo words om a 2019 THR roundtable me up about how straight men always get awards whenever they play gay, Ewan even seemed to agree wh the sentiment, sayg, "I haven't walked Billy Porter's sho I don't know what 's like to lose out parts when you might feel 's to do wh your sexualy. "Ultimately though, McGregor took the role of the openly-gay fashn in who passed away om AIDS-related plitns back 1990, sayg there was more to Halston's life than his sexualy that he wanted to be able to explore and portray on-screen.

"If had been a story about Halston's sexualy more, then maybe 's right that gay actors should play that role, " he told THR. Sttish actor Ewan McGregor failed to stop actg out his homosexual sex.

EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH

homosexual screen sex went on longer than expected - but he adms Bale hasn't.

I hadn't done gay perative sex before, so I'm standg behd. Durg a recent terview, Ewan McGregor opened up about his actg choic, and he admted that he lik explorg his sexualy movi, as he did his recent gay romance wh Jim Carrey, I Love You, Phillip Morris (above). Here’s what he had to say about his trend of choosg gay/bisexual character rol:.

“Through my reer I├óΓé¼Γäóve played gay or bisexual characters whenever they├óΓé¼Γäóve grabbed me. Give the whole gay thg a try!

EWAN MCGREGOR FEND HIS STG AS GAY SIGNER HALSTON RYAN MURPHY'S UPG NETFLIX SHOW

The 50-year-old Star Wars actor, who will star the upg Halston TV seri produced by Ryan Murphy as the fashn signer, spoke about playg gay spe beg straight an terview wh THR. “If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role. His performanc have sparked the sexual awakeng of so many lennial gay men and women, cludg yours tly.

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HALSTON TRAILER: EWAN MCGREGOR STARS AS INIC GAY FASHN SIGNER NEW NETFLIX DRAMA

Bon Pots: Can we get a spoff where Roman and his henchman Victor get to live their tth and have a happy gay life together? Watch: Ewan McGregor Gets to Know His Gay Father ‘Begners'. " But a new terview, McGregor has spoken out on the stg and why he felt was fe for him to portray a gay man this role.

"I hear the discsn and I rpect both sis of , I really do, " McGregor told Variety about the ia of straight actors playg gay rol. In particular, he was rpondg to Billy Porter potg out that while gay actors get shut out of rol unls they are flamboyant, there's a long history of straight actors wng awards for gay rol. " Pot of view is an terted to phrase a ld hard fact: the vast majory of the most heavily regnized and award LGBTQ+ rol have been portrayed by performers who are eher straight or did not publicly intify as queer prr to wng their McGregor, the se of this project cid that "if had been a story about Halston's sexualy more, then maybe 's right that gay actors should play that role.

McGregor has prevly played gay Velvet Goldme, I Love You Phillip Morris, and The Pillow Book. For the wrer and director Mike Mills, who based this memory piece about a straight son and his dyg gay father on his own life, love is a wonr even if s palpable realy largely remas elive, a hoped-for gift locked an adjacent Oliver (Ewan McGregor), the story’s soft center and a man ep mourng — for his recently ad father and perhaps for somethg else — fdg someone to love turns out to be the easy part. There were s of marriage, remembered by Oliver as a seri of shadowy, perfunctory kiss, but then his mother, Geia (Mary Page Keller), di, and six months later Hal, now 75, announc that he’s gay.

EWAN MCGREGOR DEFENDS HIS CASTG AS LEGENDARY GAY DIGNER HALSTON

Ewan McGregor is playg inic gay signer Roy Halston Frowick Ryan Murphy's upg show.

McGregor addrsed Billy Porter's 2019 ments about straight actors takg on gay rol.

JIM CARREY TALKS ABOUT GAY ROLE, KISSG EWAN MCGREGOR

Ewan McGregor has fend his stg as the inic gay signer Roy Halston Frowick the upg Ryan Murphy Netflix show "Halston, " addrsg Billy Porter's 2019 ments around the subject of straight actors playg gay a Hollywood Reporter Roundtable 2019, "Pose" star Porter said: "If 'flamboyantly' wasn't the scriptn of the character, no one would see me ever for anythg.