Colin Firth is speaking out against Hollywood’s horrible double standard for gay actors!
The seksi Brit, who stars as gay college professor George Falconer in A Single Man, says:
“There might be risks for a gay actor coming out. The politics of that are quite complex, it seems to me. If you’re known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that. If you’re a gay man and you want to play a straight role, you don’t get cast — and if a gay man wants to play a gay role now, you don’t get cast. I think it needs to be addressed and I feel complicit in the problem. I don’t mean to be. I think we should all be allowed to play whoever — but I think there are still some invisible boundaries which are still uncrossable.”
Well spoken, Mr. Darcy!! You hit the hypocrisy right on the nose!!
Playing gay has become way too fashionable in Hollywood for straight actors who want to be edgy and bold with their careers! It works both ways! If straight can play gay, gay can CERTAINLY play straight!!
Now that we’ve addressed there is a problem, let’s try to take the proper steps to correct it!! Enough is enough!!
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