Benedict Cumberbatch Explas Why He's Playg Gay New Wtern Film

Contents:

• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• SAM ELLTT SLAMS POWER OF THE DOG'S GAY THEM: 'THEY'RE ALL NNG AROUND CHAPS AND NO SHIRTS'
• THE REAL GAY WBOYS
• GAY WBOYS? ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ DO NOT STAND ALONE GOG THERE

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

Cumberbatch is already gettg Osr buzz for his role the upg wtern as a gay Montana ttle rancher the 1920s.

But not everyone is keen on straight actors playg gay rol, and this is somethg Cumberbatch was aware of when he took the role, and he talked to IndieWire about why he ultimately cid the role was for him. While is important to provi real-life queer people wh jobs the dtry and nothg go as far as thenticy, there shouldn't be a mand for actors to publicly state their sexualy before they accept actg bate over whether straight actors should play gay has been ragg pecially hard over the last year or so.

"I'm not beg woke about this, but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an emy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat, " he told the Rad Tim, "They are not there to 'act gay' bee 'actg gay' is a bunch of s o a performance. "Everyone om Neil Patrick Harris, to Jim Parsons, to Ben Platt has weighed on the issue, wh some sayg they're favor of straight actors playg gay, but many sayg they'd like to see that trend e to an isn't Cumberbatch's first time playg gay a big movie.

SAM ELLTT SLAMS POWER OF THE DOG'S GAY THEM: 'THEY'RE ALL NNG AROUND CHAPS AND NO SHIRTS'

In 2014, he played gay puter geni Alan Turg The Imatn Game, and was nomated for an Amy Award, a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Goln Globe for the role.

The affectnate story of the lifelong romance between Tom and Joe, om their first humble meetg the 1970s, a world only jt wakg up to homosexualy, through to their heartbreakg fal days, s later. This documentary explor a group of gay women songwrers who have succsfully navigated the male domated untry mic genre and have wrten number 1 hs for some of untry mic's greatt stars. We know that homosexualy existed back the days of the Amerin Frontier, though wasn’t somethg people often drew attentn too.

But when Vega is pacated by an jury, he asks Ramon (also Gee Haton!), his very gay, long-lost tw brother (now llg himself ‘Bunny’), to replace him as the ped hero, who mak some drastic chang to his Zorro persona. And wh a great blend of quirky zany quips, an credible sre, and plenty of homage to classic Wtern films of ‘old, there is no doubt that this twist on the legend of Zorro is very queer and gay.

THE REAL GAY WBOYS

I’m mixed on this, and the only reason why I’m leavg this list is bee wh the ensemble st are a “probable” gay uple.

While there are some major issu wh the film, such as the very obv stg of whe Europeans to portray Native Amerins, qutnable seventi art film techniqu, and low budget, “Song of the Loon” tak a rather nocent approach to regards to acceptg one’s homosexualy. Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually reprsed wboy the 1920s – when homosexualy was wily stigmatized and many plac, crimalized – the upg Netflix film “The Power of the Dog.

Some of the creators volved those films, like director Todd Hayn of “Carol” and Lu Guadagno, who directed “Call Me By Your Name, ” which also starred straight actors, are gay themselv.

GAY WBOYS? ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ DO NOT STAND ALONE GOG THERE

The film “Moonlight, ” which followed a gay Black man three stag of his life, was celebrated for sisteppg queer stereotyp, though starred some straight actors. Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters. (The anizatn didn’t immediately rpond to CNN’s requt for ment regardg straight actors portrayg gay characters.

Vany Fair cric Richard Lawson wrote a review of the 2020 film “The Prom” that there’s no “hard and fast le about who should play gay men on screen.