Straight actors playing gay characters
Actors playing characters with which they do not distribute characteristics
They are all things the actor was born with, or had no initial control over.Gorbles said:
I really don't at all.
That said, the way I see it, comparing something like someone being LGBTQ to someone's eye colour is a relatively superficial comparison. The point why this topic is even a thing is because of the marginalisation essential in the industry in question. Not because of their eye colour, or like others tried to claim, because they're British or not.Click to expand...
Let's travel to a "non-shallow" place, shall we? I'm diabetic, and that means there are certain things that are now part of my life that weren't, two years ago (it's been nearly two years to the day that I nearly died, was diagnosed, hospitalized, treated, and taught what to anticipate in the future, and how to manage situations like yesterday, when I had a bad hypoglycemic event - I own to know how to handle these things myself, because some hospitals are death traps nowadays).
Should I scream and rant at film studios to only cast diabetic actors in roles where the character is diab
14 Straight Actors Who Won Oscars For Playing LGBTQ+ Roles
While we love seeing LGBTQ+ characters on big screen, we’d be remiss if we didn’t speak of that a lot of the most awarded—queer roles hold gone to non-queer actors….
Peter Finch was the first to be nominated by the Academy for his role as a queer doctor in the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday and the groundbreaking nomination paved the way for dozens of straight thespians to receive nods for taking on male lover, lesbian and gender diverse roles. Before the 94th annual Academy Awards take place on Sunday Protest 27, here’s a look back at 14 standout performances (from straight actors) of LGBTQ+ characters that won Oscar gold.
William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman
(Released: 1985)
William Hurt was the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a gay character on the big screen. Hurt portrayed Luis Molina, an incarcerated gay man, in the 1985 clip Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia
(Released: 1993)
Tom Hanks took house the Best Thespian for his role in Philadelphia. The film was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to explicitly deal with HIV/AIDS and homophobia.
Hilary No way. Well, maybe? Sometimes. Okay — yes. Of course! We’re all human beings at the finish of the sunlight … and sexuality is on a spectrum, right? Acting is acting! This whirlwind of contradictory answers flutters through my uncharacteristically conflicted head every time I attempt to retort this question. It’s a debate we’ve seen time and time again, most recently when many high-profile names leapt to the defence of Jack Whitehall being cast as Disney’s first openly gay character. So I’m by no means the first person to communicate on this seemingly unsolvable debate, but with the recent release of Supernova — Hollywood’s latest gay film starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci — I’m throwing my coin into the hat for pleasant measure. Netflix’s Disclosure (well worth a watch) beautifully highlighted the importance of casting transgender actors in gender non-conforming roles — or should I utter , the harm of casting cisgender actors in trans roles. But the casting of gay roles remains more of a grey area than you realise. As an player and a same-sex attracted man, I spot myself caught in the middle of this debate, straddling both sides of It’s a Hollywood cliche that, for a straight male actor, playing a gay role is a shortcut to an Oscar (alongside starring in a film about the Holocaust, disability or mental illness). There have been many prominent examples (Tom Hanks won Best Actor for playing a gay man with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), Sean Penn for starring in a biopic about gay civil rights activists in Milk), but if such a strategy exists, it’s no longer as viable today: it certainly didn’t out for Bradley Cooper this year, whose performance as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro was snubbed, or Paul Mescal, who wasn’t even nominated for All of Us Strangers. But there is still a residual sense of prestige for the straight star playing gay, and while they are far less likely to be described as “brave” for doing so, it still seems to be a mark of seriousness, a way of proving your chops. In fact, now that it tends to be associated with auteur-led, independent cinema rather than middle-brow Oscar bait, it’s more clouty than ever before. In recent months, a flurry of new productions include been announced in which linear actors – or least, actors Let’s Settle This: Can Straight Actors Engage Gay Roles?
Gaslighting queer folk
Do queer roles really need to be played by queer actors?