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Contents:
- SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
- RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
- ZACHARY QUTO ON WORKG WH AN ALL OPENLY GAY CAST THE BOYS THE BAND: “IT FELT LIKE WE WERE REPRENTG OUR OWN LEAGE”
- SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO
SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS STILL PLAY GAY CHARACTERS? 'IT'S PLITED'
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In early December, Netflix dropped s highly anticipated mil edy “The Prom, ” starrg Meryl Streep, Nile Kidman, Andrew Rannells and Jam Corn as fadg Broadway stars who set out to help a lbian teen take her girliend to the film, helmed by out director Ryan Murphy, got mixed reviews, but some lambasted as “homophobic” and “offensive” bee of the stg of Corn, a straight actor, what they saw as an “aggrsively flamboyant” riture of a gay character, Barry Glickman, is a narcissistic theater actor who dons sparklg tuxedo jackets, talks wh a stereotypil gay lisp while flailg his hands around and scrib himself as “gay as a bucket of wigs. "Melda Sue Gordon / NetflixErik Anrson, who ns the film se Awards Watch, lled “The Prom” a “geo and vibrant productn” but tweeted that Corn’s “performance is gross and offensive, the worst gayface a long, long time.
RSELL T. DAVI EXPLAS WHY HE ONLY CASTS GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
”The ntroversy threw fuel on an already simmerg bate: Should non-LGBTQ actors still be st lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rol?
ZACHARY QUTO ON WORKG WH AN ALL OPENLY GAY CAST THE BOYS THE BAND: “IT FELT LIKE WE WERE REPRENTG OUR OWN LEAGE”
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SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO
” It was the first time an openly gay actor played a gay character a leadg role a TV part “helped fluence a whole generatn of people who beme wrers and actors and ntent creators, who wanted to see more people like Ricky, more LGBTQ people of lor, and I thk we're seeg the benef of that today, ” said Cz, who served as executive producer of Apple TV’s "Visible: Out on Televisn, ” a 2020 doceri about the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of Amerin Cz ma his but “My So Called Life, ” televisn has been creasgly hirg LGBTQ actors to play LGBTQ characters.