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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
There's a ridiculous idea floating around that actors can only portray characters who share the same demographic traits as themselves...
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Which goes against the point of acting imo if you're just playing yourself.
Obviously in this particular case fiction shouldn't be deliberately homophobic in it's intent, but imo there would be nothing wrong with Tom Hanks playing a gay character today as long as the character is well written and well portrayed by Hanks himself.