Last week, Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick spoke about gay actors playing straight roles, and said that he does NOT think audiences are “as homophobic as the media would have us believe.”
Glee’s Jane Lynch seems to have a much different opinion.
Here’s what she had to say on the subject:
“I don├óΓé¼Γäót know when or if [gay actors in leading roles] will ever happen. I think because since most of the world is straight ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ and maybe we’ll get to a place where this will happen ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ most of the world is straight and we want the audience to project their hopes and dreams for love and romance onto those actors. And if it├óΓé¼Γäós not in some way possible, maybe never probably, in their mind that it could never happen, then they’re not going to do it. You know, most people are straight, and I think that├óΓé¼Γäós probably why├óΓé¼┬ª. This is a business of projection and desiring people from afar. And watching people go through trials and tribulations, so there has got to be some truth to it, in terms of, ‘I could see myself with that person.’ Because the leading man and lady are the person we want them to fall in love with, and most of the audience is straight. So for right now, we can only use straight actors.”
Sorry Jane, but we’re with Max on this one. Just look at Neil Patrick Harris! He’s straight on How I Met Your Mother, and that show’s been on the air since 2005!
Do U think audiences can accept gay actors in straight roles?
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