Straight actors playing gay roles

While we love seeing LGBTQ+ actors get as many opportunities as possible, these straight actors played the heck out of these queer roles!.

Rebel Wilson is weighing in on the debate. In an interview with BBC's "Desert Island Discs" on Sunday, the " Pitch Perfect " star, 44, argued against the notion that gay characters must be played by gay performers. I think is total nonsense," she said.

Openly gay actors playing it straight on the big screen is still a relatively rare occurrence, but that can’t be said of their straight counterparts playing gay.

In recent months, a flurry of new productions have been announced in which straight actors — or least, actors who are not publicly gay — will play gay characters. Nicholas Galiztine, meanwhile, is emerging as the potential new king of gay for pay, with roles in Mary and George as a gay duke , Red, White and Royal Blue a gay prince and Handsome Devil a gay rugby player. While gay actors do play straight roles, there are still significant barriers within the industry.

While we love seeing LGBTQ+ actors get as many opportunities as possible, these straight actors played the heck out of these queer roles!.

Recently, Stanley Tucci, a straight actor who played gay characters on several occasions, said, "Obviously, I believe that's fine. I am always very flattered when gay men come up to me and talk to me about The Devil Wears Prada or they talk about Supernova , and they say that 'It was just so beautiful,' you know, 'You did it the right way. He continued, "I really do believe an actor is an actor is an actor.

Openly gay actors playing it straight on the big screen is still a relatively rare occurrence, but that can’t be said of their straight counterparts playing gay.

Clive is a gay man who tries to suppress his homosexuality in Edwardian-era England. Grant's performance has been labeled as insightful and "intelligent," and in , The New York Times critic Janet Maslin called Grant "so good. Maslin said that Grant's Clive "embodies all the conservatism and complacency, not to mention all the hidden desire, that Forster saw as most repressive in the English society of his day.