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There was not a ripple of controversy when Martin Sheen took the role of a gay gentleman in the Netflix comedy Grace & Frankie which premiered last week.
But in 1972, it was considered a huge career exposure when Sheen agreed to star antonym Hal Holbrook as a gay couple in the television movie That Certain Summer.
‘Then it was a large controversy,’ Sheen said earlier today on The Meredith Vieira Show.
Vieira asked Sheen, 74, if he had any trepidations taking on the role in the landmark show about a teen who must deal with the homosexuality of his divorced father (Holbrook).
‘None,’ Sheen said.
Sheen played the recent partner of the divorced father in the film that initially had trouble getting sponsors. The actor said after ABC held several advance screenings, sponsors came aboard.
‘I got the chance to play with Hal Holbrook – a great star and a male I had admired for most of my adult life,’ Sheen says. ‘I was in some really good
Martin Sheen on Reconciling Support of Same-Sex Marriage and Religion
A postscript on Saturday’s performance of “8”: Martin Sheen, who appeared as Ted Olson, also is a well-known devoted Catholic. After the act, I asked him how he reconciles his religion with sustain for same-sex marriage rights. The Catholic Church, which opposes homosexual marriage, supported the campaign for Prop 8 in California.
“My religion’s highest standard is conscience. Nothing can get between your conscience and God, not even the church, because for 2,000 years, my church has been lifting up as exemplary various men and women in their lives who have served as inspiration to all of us over the centuries, and we ring them saints. By canonizing these people who we believe contain lived exceptional lives, we assert , or the church declares, that they are in heaven, that they are with God. And yet over the same people of time, the church has not condemned a single heart to hell because it does not have the authority. It does not even have the authority to condemn Hitler. There is no authority in the church and that has never changed, and it cannot adjust otherwis
Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston on playing gay on 'Grace And Frankie'
At a panel at PaleyFest in Hollywood on Saturday, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston discussed playing a gay couple on the Netflix hit comedy Grace and Frankie.
In January, the series was renewed for a sixth season.
Taking part in Saturday's discussion were series stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, Ethan Embry, Baron Vaughn and June Diane Raphael, along with co-creators and executive producers Martin Kauffman and Howard J. Morris.
Kauffman revealed that the upcoming season would include the go back of Ernie Hudson, who played Tomlin's love interest Jacob in previous seasons.
"The electricity between them was so vibrant," Kauffman is quoted as saying by Deadline Hollywood. "We will be seeing him in season 6."
In the series, Sheen and Waterston act a gay couple.
"The reality that it's Sam makes it possible and easy," Sheen said of the experience playing gay.
"Martin brings joy with him every morning, so things that would normally be tough are just infinitely effortless to do," Waterston said.
Fonda said that Dolly Parton – who starred in 9 to 5 with Tomlin and Fond
Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston Go Lgbtq+ for Pay (and Laughs) on ‘Grace and Frankie’
AARP-tastic! Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston have built their careers on sobering TV dramas—Sheen as idealist President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing, Waterston as irascible litigator Jack McCoy in the Law & Order franchise. But now the two stars are cutting loose—and having the time of their lives—as a pair of daffy septuagenarian lovers in the Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie. The series kicked off last year with Robert (Sheen) and Sol (Waterston) revealing their covert 20-year affair to their utterly gobsmacked wives, Grace (Jane Fonda) and Frankie (Lily Tomlin). Now, as Season 2 begins (streaming Friday, May 6), the guys are all set to fetch married. But which one will move the bouquet? Sheen and Waterston gabbed with us about love, death and the perils of going gay for pay.
You’ve both turned 75. How does it feel to finally be getting the laughs?
Waterston: It’s the coolest thing that could have happened. I started my career on the stage doing nothing but comedies and was really scared no one would get me seriously. I struggled and struggled to get into drama and finall