Can Straight Actors Play Gay Roles?
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theOnlyOutsider — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 06:43 PM)
I think if someone is "too masculine" they're a dead giveaway. Oh that guy must get all the ladies! Or is that the idea? I also think as a culture we over emphasize the need for intercourse. We put all our cards down on love. Why not put all of our love into what we do? Real love is rare. I think most people choose to be in a relationship because they have this obsessive tendency to be needed. Or they have an issue and can't keep squid-ward in they jaws. and knock a chick up. End up living a miserable life married to some broad that doesn't love them.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known. -
kenneglds — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 03:41 AM)
For the most part every actor that played gay in a film, or took part in a gay sex/kiss scene, from the 1960s through the 1990s was straight. There used to be an unwritten rule that only straight actors could play gay in movies.
it was considered too risky for a Closeted
gay actor to do so, as it could lead to rumours that the closeted gay actor was in fact gay. But this has changed in the 2000s.
There may have been exceptions (for example, Rupert Everett) to said unwritten rule, but MOST of the actors playing gay, in movies,1960's-1990's were straight.
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Jade_The_Messenger — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 08:05 AM)
As long as the actors are comfortable with taking part in same-sex kissing/touching.
I'm a straight woman yet I'm offended when I watch a scene that was clearly shot in a way for the actors to avoid kissing or physical contact for intimacy.
If the actor/actress plays gay/bisexual, 100% commit to it or don't do it period.
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truetexian — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 10:40 AM)
Is your question for real or being thrown out with a wink?
I assume you're aware that Brando's same-sex encounters have been substantiated beyond innuendo and rumor, no?
Not getting into all that"Can Straight Actors Play Gay Roles?"
Why not? "Gay" ones have been playing "straight" ones "good" and "convincingly" since the beginning of time. -
XFiles26 — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 05:11 AM)
Well apparently, their is no evidence of that
Seeing as he was a father, 17 times with many different women, married 3 times and was a famous womaniser, Many women have admitted affairs with him, he dated Marilyn Monroe, Ursula Andress, Rita Moreno and Allegedly Vivian Leigh.
Not a fan but I had to say that. -
truetexian — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 12:25 PM)
Yes he was married three times and you failed to include his relationships with Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, Gloria Vanderbilt, Hedy Lamar, Ingrid Bergman, Edith Pief, and Doris Duke.
But you also left out his with Burt Lancaster, Lawrence Olivier, Leonard Bernstein, Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Tyrone Powers, Montgomery Clift, Clifford Odetis, James Dean, and Rock Hudson.
Apparently there IS evidence of "that",in a 1976 interview for his autobiography he had this to say: "Homosexuality is now so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think of me." -
truetexian — 9 years ago(January 21, 2017 07:33 AM)
I guess evolution (or learning/development by rote) has taught us to label everything and everyone, after all it's kept us safe from making a pet out of a coral snake rather than a king snake.
However, whenever it comes to human sexuality the scientific community is still hesitate to slap an all definitive label on some people. I've lived long enough to realize that it's a ridiculous and often times meaningless thing to do anyway.
Brando shared an apartment for many years during the '50's with the actor Wally Cox and was quoted as having said that if he (Cox) had been a woman he'd have been married to him. After Cox died in '73, Brando saved his cremated remains and upon his own death in '04 had his ashes scattered together with his beloved "friend".
What was that all about? Was it a platonic "bromance", "gay", or "bi" thing? He called himself a "sexual adventurer" so I suppose we should take him at his word and leave it at that. -
truetexian — 9 years ago(January 21, 2017 10:43 AM)
OK, have it your way it's immaterial to me. I'm content with allowing Brando to label himself as he did (a "sexual adventurer"). I agree with you, it does appear as if he was "addicted" to sex. I wonder though, just how much wood does a woodchuck chuck.before they call him a "gay" woodchucker?
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ToastedCheese — 5 years ago(March 27, 2021 12:52 AM)
Do you think a straight/non gay actor can be good and convincing in a gay role.
Assuming that the actor is straight, which would be the first notion most would have. Yet, if the actor is straight, it is condescending, especially if they get praise for it. How phony virtuous of the actor to play something that could ruin their career because being homo is still technically second class sexuality.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?