[what's up]

I give him credit for playing a tough role which garnered him an oscar nomination,

He shouldn't get any credit for playing that sick role.

Didn't think much of him. That being said, I don't wish him dead.

[Williams]

Ridiculous to think no one should portray homosexuals, or anything else, in films.

[napscoordinator]

He shouldn’t get any credit for playing that sick role.

Who the hell are you? You are an idiot and should not get any credit here on FR. It works both ways. I never saw the movie but the guy is dead and you have to be negative. So I suppose when every person who dies and played a gay character on TV or movie...which is fiction you will say the same nasty comments?

[trumandogz]

He shouldn't get any credit for playing that sick role.

I think that is why they call it "acting." You see, when a person is an "actor" they play roles, they are not themselves.

For example, actors in their roles sometimes kill people, that does not make the actor a bad person, simply because the chararter they play is a murderer.

And Ledger, simply because he played a gay in a movie does not mean that he was gay or a bad person.