Stanley Tucci, who portrayed queer men 'The Devil Wears Prada' and 'Supernova,' wad to the bate about straight actors playg gay characters.
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- STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: ‘YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THAT’S THE WHOLE POT OF IT’
- 20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
- STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’
- STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
- STANLEY TUCCI WEIGHS ON BATE OVER STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘AN ACTOR IS AN ACTOR’
STANLEY TUCCI SAYS IT’S ‘FE’ FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL: ‘YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THAT’S THE WHOLE POT OF IT’
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Stanley Tucci appeared on BBC Rad 4’s “Dert Island Discs” show and weighed on the bate over straight actors playg gay characters. The Osr nomee, whose been married to Ey Blunt’s sister sce 2012, played gay rol “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) and “Supernova” (2020) and received cril acclaim for both performanc.
“Obvly I believe that’s fe, ” Tucci said about straight actors takg gay rol. “I am always very flattered when gay men e up to me and talk to me about ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ or they talk about ‘Supernova, ’ and they say that, ‘It was jt so betiful, ’ you know, ‘You did the right way.
As long as ’s beg done “the right way, ” Tucci said ’s fe for straight actors to play gay characters on screen.
20 GREAT ROL: OUR FAVORE STRAIGHT ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED GAY CHARACTERS
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Tucci’s thoughts differ om that of Tom Hanks, who told The New York Tim Magaze last year that a straight actor uld not take on a gay role like the one he played Jonathan Demme’s 1993 legal drama “Philalphia. ” Hanks starred the film as a gay man wh HIV who is discrimated agast at work, and he won the Osr for bt actor thanks to his performance. One of the reasons people weren’t aaid of that movie is that I was playg a gay man.
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STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’
* straight actors in gay roles *
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STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
Many actors who are not gay realy have portrayed gay characters, real and fictnal. Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron and Hilary Swank won Osrs for playg gay or transgenr characters.
Whether ’s for televisn or a feature film, ’s not easy to pull off a gay role as a straight actor. Hilary Swank, “Boys Don’t Cry” (while Swank’s character Brandon Teena was transgenr, not gay, the role was inic for many gays and lbians). " Straight actor Nick Robson channeled a young gay man stgglg wh his inty "Love, Simon.
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STANLEY TUCCI WEIGHS ON BATE OVER STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY ROL: ‘AN ACTOR IS AN ACTOR’
"All of those issu are important to me at once, and I thk that we n advote for all of them at once bee ultimately we want our media to be an accurate reflectn of the world which we live, " they Billy Eichner, who is gay, told Deadle earlier this year that Hollywood was "so hypocril" how treats LGBTQ actors, that many attend fundraisers for the muny but fail to tell LGBTQ stori wh LGBTQ actors. "I don’t have to go s wh 30 gay people and try to fd out what ’s like to be gay. I thk we need to stop unrvalug that, the feelg that if a gay person plays a gay person ’s not actg but if a straight person plays a gay person, we give them an Osr.
"I don't thk that a cis person uld ever tly unrstand the trans experience, or what means to be trans and the amount of opprsn that we go through on a daily basis, " Cassata qutn of thenticy appli to lbian, gay and bisexual people, too, though the letters of LGBTQ are more accepted inti, Cassata says. She says the only people talkg about back 1993, when she beme the first openly gay ic on televisn the U.
In the se of gay actor Wentworth Miller of "Prison Break, " he said an Instagram post earlier this month that he isn't terted playg straight characters anymore and has ntued to discs the need for better reprentatn. But there are a host of actors out there who don't want to be relegated to playg only gay and transgenr characters. Pop TV's cril darlg "Scht's Creek" swept the Emmys earlier this year, -created by and starrg gay actor and wrer Dan Levy.