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• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER
• GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.
• NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER
• FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS
• NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER
• NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH
• WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY
• 'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER
• ‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW
• ‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HS BACK AT CLICHéD QUTNS ABOUT PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER

Neighbours star Takaya Honda has h back at clichéd qutns about playg a gay straight actor, who portrays David Tanaka the Channel 5 soap, appeared at Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras alongsi his on-screen hband Matt Wilson (Aaron Brennan), when he ma the impassned Instagram post. "We get asked, more often than I thk we should, 'What's like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult? "Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man?

The task we are given is to evoke wh the dience that feelg of love and have them believe that we are love, and that would go whether our characters were gay, straight or other.

"There is no gree of difficulty add bee the characters are gay. You would be fiven for thkg that stralia dont have ANY gay people livg there:rolley:. what is the al wh the plete lack of any gay characters eher of the soaps, or any talk of homosexualy what-so-ever!

GAY CHARACTERS NEIGHBOURS & HOME AND AWAY.

Charlie had a girliend Home and Away, although she has a boyiend aga now, and there is a gay boy Neighbours but I n't remember his name. Chris has jt e out as gay on Neighbours, problem is that he isn't a ma character and acrdg to reports, they don't know what to do wh the character. Home and Away had a uple of gay characters.

Chris, Pippa's son, is gay.

The producers of H&A have always said there was no pot tryg to have gay characters G rated shows as the l regardg what n't be shown ma impossible anyway. This has been discsed many tim on this fom, Atralia is a backward and nservative untry that don't like seeg gay people on tv.

NEIGHBOURS STAR TAKAYA HONDA HAS ‘NO DIFFICULTY’ PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

I don't thk that gay people should appear any programme jt to tick a box. I thk there has to be a fair repersentatn of gay/lbian people soaps as there is real life. Atralia is very backward lookg when to portrayg gay people on screen.

I have heard that Atralians don't like gay people their soaps as is a very nservative untry and I thk I am right sayg that some stat homosexualy is still banned. I'm que suprised that homosexualy uld still be banned certa really bad!!!

FIRST REGULAR GAY CHARACTER FOR NEIGHBOURS

I agree that gay/lbian people need to be reprented on tv, but not necsarily soaps.

The people that are voved soaps seem to lack creativy or are unwillg to e up wh proper storyl for gay/lbian people. I would like to see a storyle that volv a gay person, but is not about their sexualy, personally I'm sick of the syoryl where g out "is" the storyle. Methodyguy, be sure to let know which Atralian stat ban homosexualy.

Neighbours star Takaya Honda, who plays David Tanaka the soap, has h back at people who ask him if he fds “difficult” to play a gay character. Takaya Honda – who ma history alongsi -star Matt Wilson last year when they picted the first gay weddg on the soap – ma the ments an Instagram post.

NEIGHBOURS STAR DIGS HIMSELF A HOLE ‘IGNORANT’ TERVIEW ABOUT GAY CHARACTER

“Who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man? Wrg on Instagram, the actor said: “We get asked, more often than I thk we should, ‘what’s like to play a gay character as a straight actor, do you fd difficult?

“Firstly, who uld fd hard to play gay oppose this credible man?

NEIGHBOURS' MATT WILSON APOLOGIS AFTER 'GAY' BACKLASH

Neighbours has got s first gay regular gay character. Neighbours, which is 25 years old, has had temporary gay characters before and has screened several lbian kiss.

In an terview wh Atralian gay publitn Same Same last week, Mason said that fans had asked for a gay character. The producers were pretty keen on givg the viewers what they want, and they noticed there was a high mand for a gay character to e on the show. He add that the storyle would be “pretty genue” as me om gay scriptwrers who had been through g out.

A straight actor who plays a gay character on Neighbours has been rid over ments about flamboyant gay characters. Atralian actor Matt Wilson, who is straight real life, plays gay Neighbours character Aaron Brennan on the long-nng soap. He said: “There’s a lot of people sayg, why don’t you get a gay person to play a gay character?

WHY DAVE FRAN'S NEIGHBORS 2 CHARACTER WILL BE GAY

Drkg game for gays and non-gays. The actor then went on to claim that was important he had the role so that the character uld “act straight” and “normal”, htg out at “flamboyant” gay characters. Ironilly, had a gay actor played the role they probably wouldn’t have dug themselv such a ep hole wh such ignorant ments.

'My choice of words wasn't right': Matt Wilson apologis after ntroversial remarks about his gay Neighbours character actg 'normal' and 'straight' Updated: 16:10 BST, 6 July 2017. He plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on long-nng TV soap actor Matt Wilson faced a backlash after claimg his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' an terview on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff last week, the 29-year-old said stripper Aaron was characterised to 'act straight and act normal' down for vio Controversy: Neighbours star Matt Wilson (pictured) faced a backlash after sayg on Brish televisn last week his character was purposefully wrten to be a 'straight actg' homosexualHe add: 'And when I say normal, like, he don't stand out among the crowd.

'Matt then pared his character wh the gay men US seri Morn Fay, who he scribed as 'flamboyant' and 'mp. ' The former rpenter also said there had been much discsn over whether the role should have been given to a gay actor.

'NEIGHBOURS' STS NEW GAY CHARACTER

'There are a lot of people who thk you should have a gay actor playg a gay character. 'Many gay fans were left disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'. Televisn role: The 29-year-old plays a gay character, Aaron Brennan, on TV soap NeighboursHe later apologised on Twter, wrg: 'Hi guys.

Backlash: Many gay fans were disappoted by Matt's remarks, scribg the heterosexual actor's terview as 'crgeworthy' and even 'homophobic'. This may make slightly surprisg that Neighbors 2: Sorory Risg, Dave Fran’s character will actually be gay. However, the sequel, he will play a man a homosexual relatnship on the verge of gettg married.

‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

Clearly, we’re playg wh the homoerotic tensn [ the first film], and I was like, 'He should jt be gay. [Co-wrer] Evan Goldberg brought up, and he said, 'I thk he should be gay, and part of [his arc] should be the proposal. Nicholas Stoller also says that he was fluenced to turn one of the characters Neighbors 2: Sorory Risg gay after he realized that he’d never had a gay character any of his films.

Durg the prs junket for the origal Neighbors, Stoller was asked by a reporter why he had never clud a gay character prev movi. Neighbours uld be le for s first ever gay uple after stg a love tert for gay character Chris Pappas (Jam Mason) Morley has been st as male nurse Aidan Foster the soap, a love tert for former Home and Away actor said that ma no difference whether or not his character was gay when he signed on to told the Herald Sun: "I don't see as a big al that the character is gay.

‘NEIGHBOURS’ STAR MATT WILSON SPARKS BACKLASH OVER COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MEN DURG 'THE WRIGHT STUFF' INTERVIEW

‘Neighbours’ star Matt Wilson has sparked ntroversy over ments he ma about gay people durg an appearance on Channel 5′s ‘The Wright Stuff’ actor attracted cricism after sayg his gay character the Atralian soap, Aaron Brennan “acted straight” and “normal”. His ments me after Suzi Perry asked if he ever received any flack for takg the part over a gay actor, given he is straight himself.

“There are a lot of people who thk you should have a gay actor playg a gay character, but that’s like sayg you should get someone a wheelchair to play a character a wheelchair. — WayneDavid?️? (@WayneDavid81) June 29, 2017n't believe dumbns of Neighbours actor on #TheWrightStuff who said is good he's straight actor playg gay so gays are shown as 'normal'— Jam Leon (@JamLeon1) June 29, 2017Sloppy. I love how homosexualy is also referred to the same actg ntext as murrers and wheelchair ers ?— Michael Bell (@immichaelbell) June 30, 2017Oh god the level of ignorance this is...