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Should straight actors still play gay characters? 'It's complicated'
NBC News / Comcast ^ | January 2, 2020 | By Julie Compton

Posted on 01/02/2021 4:04:14 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Gen.Blather

Sounds like the Amazing Race on CBS. For some reason they have to have a homosexual couple every season (or occasionally homosexual child with a parent), but the homosexual participants must be flaming. You have to know within 5 seconds who they are.


41 posted on 01/02/2021 6:57:00 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t it called “acting” for a reason?


42 posted on 01/02/2021 7:02:14 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: jeffc

So was Dad.


43 posted on 01/02/2021 7:23:28 AM PST by Inspectorette
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To: jeffc; Leaning Right
So was Bulldog!

And so was the father, Marty Crane, played by John Mahoney.

44 posted on 01/02/2021 7:42:16 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face." --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Jim Noble
No straight man should play a gay character. End of story.

If this means all reruns of "Will and Grace" will be knocked off TV forever (like those of the Cosby Show) because a straight actor played Will—and therefore crazed TDS hate queens Debra Messing and Megan Mullally will never see another dime in residuals—I'm all for it.

45 posted on 01/02/2021 7:47:18 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face." --Donald J. Trump)
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To: jeffc

“Actors are people who get paid to pretend to be something they are not - it’s their job!”

I’m with you on that.

A good “acting job” is the actor in combination with his director and the script (more precisely the screenplay).

And you could throw in the perception of those in the audience.


46 posted on 01/02/2021 7:50:02 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Albion Wilde

The homo was strong with that show


47 posted on 01/02/2021 7:50:17 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Uh, that was the point of that show.


48 posted on 01/02/2021 7:52:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The more righteous your fight, the more opposition you will face." --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since I’m not watching any of this...this is a first world problem I don’t worry about.


49 posted on 01/02/2021 7:52:29 AM PST by xp38
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To: Albion Wilde

I know....it was written by them too.


50 posted on 01/02/2021 7:53:18 AM PST by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s hard for a flambeau homosexual to play a husband if he’s outed

Think Harvey Fierstein as a a loving Father and lover to mom

Not happening

Whereas Dick Sargent and Robert Reed both pulled it off well as husbands and dads in Bewitched and Brady Bunch respectively

But they were quiet queers in their careers....not all were then either

It was obvious Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly were homosexuals

But it worked for them in Hollywood....especially Lynde who was as they say FABULOUS


51 posted on 01/02/2021 8:03:03 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh lord, it the reverse point were ever made (gay men can’t play straight men), half the men in Hollywood would be out of a job.

I’ve seen Andy Garcia, James Caan, and Paul Muni do outstanding jobs playing Italians but since Italians/Jews/Greeks/Lebanese (I think, or are they of color now?) are considered “white” like English, Irish and Swedish people they are part of the “oppressor” class so it don’t matter.

52 posted on 01/02/2021 8:13:40 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: oldvirginian

“James Corden is straight?
Who knew!!”

This is the whole problem. Acting is make-believe when you get right down to it for their to be a conflict her we’d first need to be aware of the true sexual orientation or gender-identification for every actor no matter how famous or anonymous. Who keeps such lists? Oh, right! The LGBTQ+ members of the Screen Actors Guild.


53 posted on 01/02/2021 8:19:12 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Homofascists aren’t seeking equality, they seek supremacy and that is why they flex and show off their political power in boardrooms, HR, media, and government offices (elected and unelected local and national)

They aren’t going away, they want Christians to go away and disappear. They are quite vocally hateful in this regard.


54 posted on 01/02/2021 8:27:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: I want the USA back

Well, the whole problem these days is that society is struggling with basic concepts like Truth & Reality. It’s so bad the Media are editorializing/propagandizing on every slightly political or socialigical topic.


55 posted on 01/02/2021 8:27:17 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: minnesota_bound

On Schitts Creek, Dan Levy’s character starts out as an effeminate bisexual or “pan sexual” who was a pretty funny parody of today’s vain, sexually ambiguous metrosexuals, consumed with clothing, grooming products, etc. and completely out of touch with anything that can truly be considered manly. Then the character became full on gay and falls in love with and marries a guy who suddenly realized he was gay later in life. The actor who plays the “husband” is straight.


56 posted on 01/02/2021 8:28:55 AM PST by Atticus
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To: midwest_hiker

There is a gay casting couch and they want hopefuls who will put out and not go public.


57 posted on 01/02/2021 8:29:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seems like a gay is in every show nowadays. This is why I like K-Dramas. They still keep it clean.


58 posted on 01/02/2021 8:30:41 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: midwest_hiker

“It is illegal to ask anyone their sexual preference during an interview.”

Might be useful to the rest of us, see
1. Elizabeth Warren,
2. Rachael Dolezal,
3. Hilaria Baldwin.

We continue to treat these frauds with a degree of seriousness precisely because their past employers were not able to get to the bottom of some rather glaring lies.


59 posted on 01/02/2021 8:32:33 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Indeed it would be more productive than what Hollywood produces.


60 posted on 01/02/2021 9:53:55 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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