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Gay roles for gay actors
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Archimedes
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James Dreyfuss (the chap from Rowan Atkinson's Thin Blue Line and Mount Pleasant) has criticised the idea. James Dreyfus criticises Russell T Davies Over Gay Typecasting. (forgive paywall)
I have to say that The Times might have formatted the first line a bit better, though...
I have to say that The Times might have formatted the first line a bit better, though...
lokiuk
LE
So there's push back against gay roles needing gay actors, or is he just pushing back against Russell T Davies?
Or the writer has a sense of humour, let us hope the editor is also so endowed.
Jimmy_Green
LE
Russell T Davies ruined Torchwood because he turned it from being a sci-fi programme into a gay love story.
I was just thinking about that.
I'm not even going to watch it I know it's about Bryan Cranston playing a parrraplee paraply spacca
bob_the_bomb
LE
lokiuk
LE
It was more the move to America to chase money for the BBC, and the dire plots that followed, a bit like the short lived US Dr Who with Paul McGann, he could have been a decent doctor, but the yanks produced and ruined it
The gay lovefest wasn't a surprise considering Russell T Davies, I think they simply stopped caring about the viewers
Besides that welsh bird with the big tits made it watchable up till then
Russell T Davies lobs in a ‘controversial’ comment that everyone knows is nonsense, and stands well back prior to the showing of his latest work. The resulting publicity shows he’s played a blinder.
That’s all there is to it.
That’s all there is to it.
Gun_Brickie
LE
The precedent was set in 2001 with the movie "I am Sam", where they cast the mentally retarded Sean Penn to play a window licker.
TamH70
MIA
He went full retard, and didn't win the Oscar.
Mike Barton
LE
Had a similar response from a mate I used to work with, Yorkshire born and bred, loved his beer and could happily spend all day talking about the finer points of cricket or the chances of Sheffield Wednesday in the cup.
I knew he was gay, he never made any secret of the fact, and one day we were chatting and he mentioned some domestic problem he was having with his partner, to do with their respective incomes or something, can't remember, we went for a few ales and I tried to help him out with some advice.
To lighten the atmosphere I then made a joke, "You know Steve, you must be the worst gay-best-friend ever. You dress worse than I do [and that was saying something], you never give me useful interior design suggestions and now I even have to give you relationship advice. I have watched all those American TV programmes and I know what gay best friends are supposed to be like and you are shite at it."
He supped his pint, and replied deadpan, "That's cuz ah'm gay, ah'm not a bloody puff".
Mike Barton
LE
Further to my post above, I had some consultancy work to do at a school, it involved training the staff, almost all women except for one bloke, immaculately coiffed hair, always wore crisply starched two-tone shirts, he would camp it up like billy-oh whenever I came in, coy looks, arched eye-brows, risque comments, the whole works, I think he was deliberately trying to get a reaction out of me, and he would always have the ladies in peals of laughter.
I mentioned to Steve (above) that the bloke annoyed me. I had no problem with his being gay but did he have to always try to camp it up all the freaking time? Steve said, "He's not gay, he's happily married with four kids, he just puts on that persona because he works with all those women and it's his way of getting by, trust me, not the least bit gay, I know".
I think that annoyed me even more, to be honest.
Nobody goes full retard, surely!
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