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Should Straight Actors Play Gay People?
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So Gay people shouldn't play straight people the, I'm guessing there won't be many roles for them.
\\"You wouldn't cast someone able-bodied and put them in a wheelchair, you wouldn't black someone up," Russell T Davies has said.//
Lots of actors have played disabled people.
So Gay people shouldn't play straight people the, I'm guessing there won't be many roles for them.
\\"You wouldn't cast someone able-bodied and put them in a wheelchair, you wouldn't black someone up," Russell T Davies has said.//
Lots of actors have played disabled people.
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im surprised at you webbo, only last year you were telling us it was "factually incorrect" for a black person to play a role. Why has your view changed? https:/
The problem comes if straight actors playing gay people has the effect of taking away jobs from gay actors that they "need" in order to survive in the profession. As far as I'm aware, this isn't really happening.
A secondary issue may be that a gay person can bring more realism and real-life experience to their role, or that a straight person would decide to act as stereotypically gay, rather than essentially normal.
But the real issue is that the argument isn't really allowed to be developed before people ridicule it. Nobody is calling for actors to be compartmentalised, or at least nobody should be. The argument is usually quite the contrary, for the acting profession to be opened up.
A secondary issue may be that a gay person can bring more realism and real-life experience to their role, or that a straight person would decide to act as stereotypically gay, rather than essentially normal.
But the real issue is that the argument isn't really allowed to be developed before people ridicule it. Nobody is calling for actors to be compartmentalised, or at least nobody should be. The argument is usually quite the contrary, for the acting profession to be opened up.
I have a lot of time for Russell T Davies and absolutely loved Queer as Folk but not sure if I agree with him or not. I think gay guys watching a straight person playing a gay person would be more critical and read more into the performance than a straight person. Most gay men I have spoken to and I talk to a lot say they can tell usually straight away whether a man is gay or not. (And I don't mean because he's not mincing around.)
//So Gay people shouldn't play straight people the, I'm guessing there won't be many roles for them.//
No Webbo, far from it. So many of them are gay, that every character that pops out of the dressing up box would just be written as such. Every part available would be written up as non hetro, and 75% bame. You know what, would come next though. Something like a fatwah on the Broadcasting authorities for depicting the "faithful" as homosexual.
No Webbo, far from it. So many of them are gay, that every character that pops out of the dressing up box would just be written as such. Every part available would be written up as non hetro, and 75% bame. You know what, would come next though. Something like a fatwah on the Broadcasting authorities for depicting the "faithful" as homosexual.
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So should've Sean Bean refused to play this part?
So should've Sean Bean refused to play this part?
I'm a bit undecided still on this.
Raymond Burr played Ironside in a wheelchair. I don't know if this character was in a wheelchair from the beginning, but if he was, then perhaps that part could have been given to a genuine disabled person who didn't get offered many parts.
Rock Hudson was always given male macho parts when in fact not only was he gay, he also had Aids when he was still in kissing scenes with a woman.
Some actors who are gay and camp ( Sean in Corrie) couldn't never be accepted in a straight part surely?
There are straight actors in Corrie and Neighbours who play gay people and I don't see why those parts can't be given to actors who are gay themselves. To me the part would seem more believable.
Raymond Burr played Ironside in a wheelchair. I don't know if this character was in a wheelchair from the beginning, but if he was, then perhaps that part could have been given to a genuine disabled person who didn't get offered many parts.
Rock Hudson was always given male macho parts when in fact not only was he gay, he also had Aids when he was still in kissing scenes with a woman.
Some actors who are gay and camp ( Sean in Corrie) couldn't never be accepted in a straight part surely?
There are straight actors in Corrie and Neighbours who play gay people and I don't see why those parts can't be given to actors who are gay themselves. To me the part would seem more believable.
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