Screenwriter Russell T Davies causing more trouble
Only gay actors should play gay characters
because you 'wouldn't black someone up', says former Doctor Who screenwriter Russell T Davies (two years after casting Hugh Grant as gay MP in A Very English Scandal) https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01...0413394588.jpg Russell T Davies [He insisted he was 'not being woke about this' and said the idea of 'acting gay' is just a 'bunch of codes for a performance' and is not authentic. Queer as Folk - about the lives of three men in Manchester - was Davies' first gay TV drama - and he cast straight actors in the role.] He has proven you do not need to be Gay. He is a Silly Sod https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-T-Davies.html https://news.sky.com/story/russell-t...cters-12185652 |
Does that mean that gay actors can't play straight characters?
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Good Point Niamh He is silly putting this out |
If people could only play their own sexuality, Broadway would go out out of business!
It's acting, in most cases an actor won't be in a relationship with their character's love interest, so it's technically no more inauthentic whether or not the sexuality is the same as the character. |
It is offensive when straight men play a camp character.
It not just like doing black face. It’s like doing black face whilst eating chicken and watermelon. |
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Plus the whole point of being a good actor is to play any role, aslong as it's done properly then I don't see the issue. If we're not careful then people are going to get pigeon holed and there's going to be very limited roles for them and it's going to be boring.
The only thing I partly agree with is how they get portrayed alot as flamboyant screaming cliché stereotypes, but sometimes that's just how the character is and sometimes it works and other times it's just predictable and silly . |
Any sexuality can be played by any person really though the situation with that Prom film and James Corden did highlight how uncomfortable it is when a straight person plays a stereotypical gay person. I think if you're gonna have a very camp character then a gay person will probably know how to play it better to be more than just a stereotype.
Aside from that though, I don't think roles should be gated based on sexuality. |
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Didn't he make show about a group of elderly gay men a few years back? I doubt all of them were gay.
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Embarrassment at admitting past mistakes is what ends up with people entrenched in opinions that they struggle to defend. |
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Id say in Porn this can be more of an issue
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I wonder if anyone in this thread could list out gay actors who regularly get cast in Hollywood lead roles and get past single digits
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[edit]Oh and Samuel L Jackson - contractually - gets to pop up and deliver a single deadpan one-liner in every movie. |
I'd understand if the issue was actors like James Corden playing camp stereotypes. Beyond that I don't see why actors need to share the sexuality of their characters.
And comparing it to blackface is all kinds of incorrect. |
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then again, my definition of "Hollywood movie" isn't limited to just the Marvel cinematic universe
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Is Tom Holland not gay?
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Ian McKellen, Kristen Stewart, Sarah Paulson and Elliot Page I'll give you, but otherwise it's a fairly shameful track record |
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