Neighbours actor who plays gay character: 'He acts straight and acts normal': Soap star slammed for his choice of words

I get it- good for him for playing a character close to what is rather common- plus- woof!

Has Hugh Jackman contacted him yet, to fly him to LA for a breakout role in exchange for....?

Bitch please. We all know what he means (i.e. that his character doesn't flop around like Jack on Will & Grace).

He should have just said "masculine," or as the ads say now, "mainstream." Or "lowkey."

Who are you to tell people what they shouldn't or shouldn't say R4 you facist cunt?

I hate the word "normal". Usually, the word "healthy" is a fitting substitute. That's what people usually mean.

When will the studios be pushing him on us in movies? You know Jackman's all over it.

He specifically defined what he meant by normal. He said he meant guys that DONT stick out in the crowd, are mainstream. That's reality. Effeminate men are noteworthy because they are distinct, DONT blend in with the great majority of men. There is nothing wrong with discussing reality

Norma does not necessarily mean Better. It ALSO means average Or mainstream

"Hi guys. Agreed. Choice of words wasn't right and apologies if it comes across as offensive!" he wrote.

"The message I want to get across (and this is in support of one of my closes friends as he is having issues coming out) that he is sick and tired of people assuming that because his sexuality is different to the guy next to him that they "expected him to act different". This isn't the case, and shouldn't be preached on tv."

R10, I wonder if he's making-up the thing about the friend.

R11, maybe, but I hear bi and gay dudes say that all the time

Gmmmmm

He's an actor so not expected to be terribly bright.

Stuff like this is what blooms self-hatred.

Thanks God we have brave straight actors telling us how gay characters should be played.

And people wonder why gay people rather have gay actors.

Instead you have clueless straight douchebags representing our community to people.

Aside from the obvious 2 or 3 actors who are both gay and non-stereotypical, who would you cast, R17? We going to have the same handful of actors always play the role of the gay guy?

I think the gay people on Modern Family act normal, they argue all the time...I could take that for a few episodes but not all the time.

Depends on what you mean by "normal." The actors who play those characters certainly portray them in a stereotypically gay manner, to varying degrees. They definitely would not portray a regular male Character with those mannerisms and speech patterns

"Normal" is a synonym for "ordinary". Yet for some reason it's a slight to be called "ordinary" and a huge slap in the face to be called "not normal". Seriously, a guy being a flaming queen is NOT normal, any more than a woman acting like a boozing trucker would be. Some people are whiny cunts who are offended by EVERYTHING.

[quote]Bitch please. We all know what he means (i.e. that his character doesn't flop around like Jack on Will & Grace).

In other words, playing an actual human being and not playing it like a degrading and offensive fucking minstrel show.

Any feminine gay man is a "minstrel" to some...

Well he is saying what so many gay and bi men also say

[quote] Any feminine gay man is a "minstrel" to some...

Even while camping it up to the rafters, Cliff Gorman did more to make Emory more human and believable in 2 hours of [italic]The Boys in the Band[/italic] than Sean Hayes did in all 8 seasons of that NBC minstrel show.

A dramatic film vs a silly half-hour sitcom. OK.

R25 could you use more current and relevant references?

Normal can be such a condescending and borderline derogatory word. It can mean bland and boring, not rocking the boat, beige, try your best to be inoffensive in a cowardly way.

"Why can't you be NORMAL like everybody else?"

Is Neighbors about normal people leading normal, boring lives or do they face all sorts of soap drama and problems that make their lives anything but normal? I mean, I get what the actor tries to articulate, but to paraphrase an old Ab Fab quote (you're just a shopgirl, you know?) You're just hired to look good without a shirt, don't overthink it.

He's hot and straight, which means we need to defend him from gay men calling him out. Assimilate, in other words.

I can't and I won't spend the energy.

Shame he can't act and the character isn't the greatest.

He's lucky he's hot.

Very hot bro

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[quote]Apologizing, Wilson said on Twitter: ‘Choice of words wasn’t right and apologies if it comes across as offensive.

Another non-apologetic apology, easily identified by - all designed not to take actual responsibility:

1. Use of passive voice.

2. Use of pronouns with indeterminate antecedents.

3. Implication that it's the person who might be offended and not the offensive nature of the comment.

At the end of the day the choice of word 'normal' is offensive because it's implying feminine and camp gay guys aren't normal. You can't disagree with that. But I doubt he meant any harm by it I guess, just a bad choice of words. And yesssss I think he's very cute !!

A straight, cute white man getting a pass on here. Why am I not surprised?

His choice of words are definitely offensive because he's implying that camp feminine gay guys aren't normal.

Oh come on....a manly straight guy who thinks effeminate men aren't normal.....this is not news. Many straight guys feel this way....and some gay ones too.

No matter what he says, he'll be castigated for it. Besides, to the mainstream, effeminate male behavior is not the norm. Even gay men turn their noses up at guys who act like that!!!

If he had said that he wished the character behave in a stereotypically flamboyant manner, he'd get dragged for perpetrating a cliched caricature...no one will be happy.

Normal is way too much of a flashpoint word. I like the term/phrase regular guy....

Like he wouldn’t be castigated for saying “regular” instead.

We need to see his dick pics to see if he is really straight.

My two cents is that he might have been better off saying he was playing a gay character who isn't particularly stereotypical.

LIGHTEN UP, AL GAYDA!

"Normal" guys ARE more masculine than Modern Family's gays. No harm done, the lad meant well.

R25, that might because Cliff Gorman was an--actor!

I have no problem with his statement. He seems genuine and sincere. And good lord, he is hot.

He doesn't LOOK normal.

Agreed. He should have said he was playing a gay character that isn't like the stereotype.

R33 - Another fat, 64 year old DataLounger using the word 'bro', trying to fit himself in the cool tribe?

Neighbors cast and crew members will be marching at this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and the show have a presence at the community event,Fair Day. Taping a storyline revolving around the Mardi Gras.

There is not outrage about this. Just some non-writers who make a meagre scrappy living connected to posting outrage online.

I get what he's saying, the words he used to covey just weren't the best, that's all.

I still think the actor who plays his brother Mark (on the left) is hotter.

R53 = mainstream?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Aussies lack a filter....they’re much more direct than Americans.

I agree with him. I think he was trying to be sensitive about the issue. Modern family 2 gay characters set the gay movement back 20 years. This is the way middle americans veiw gays from the way these 2 characters flit around and camp it up . Disgusiting.

Maybe he just needs some encouragement. We could lend him a Savage Garden CD?

*Looks at OP's picture*

I forgive him

[quote] Implication that it's the person who might be offended and not the offensive nature of the comment.

Aren't we constantly being told that INTENT doesn't matter, only the offensive word? How else could you apologize if you didn't know the term was offensive at the time you made it? Circular logic.

R51 Is the 'guy' in front a tranny or just very disturbing looking?

His thighs are like meaty lollipops.

R62 Does that mean I can lick them until I get to the "center"?

He looks like Ryan Reynolds-this guy has the same GAY lips and the GAY stare in the eyes.

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[quote] Aside from the obvious 2 or 3 actors who are both gay and non-stereotypical,

In what universe? Most actors are not straight, period. Anyone working in theater or film/tv knows this. Be them out and proud, bi, closeted or whatever, the truth is effeminate men are a minority within every group, that's why they stand out.

Stop being a bunch of offended 8 year olds.

R66, most celebrity actors certainly are straight. Obscure ones are possibly another story

Funny how different the reaction to these comments vs. Russell Tovey's...

I personally do not watch any gay movie with a straight actor performing as a gay.These movies are supposed to be directed to a gay audience not for straights.

R61 He is half-Japanese

That’s stupid r69

[quote] "Norma does not necessarily mean Better. It ALSO means average Or mainstream —Anonymous"

I've never been better, boy.

This is the first time I've ever seen Neighbours mentioned on the DL. I feel the need to mark it by posting this song.

The outraged Pakistani-Berminghammer who wrote the OP's piece is an employee who's paid to be permanently-outraged.

We should ignore this Neighbours TV soap-opera, ignore this paid-outrage soap-opera and concentrate on the fact that the subject of the thread (Matt Wilson) appears in Aussie-Bum commercials with a semi-engorged penis.

The Neighbours characters are certainly a hot couple, though would be nice if at least one of them was gay.

I don't watch 'Neighbours' but I hear it has suffered in comparison to all the eye-candy in 'Home and Away'.

Home and Away doesn't even have a gay storyline so who cares.

He can portray me anytime he likes.

I like the pictures where he allows the speedos to display his pubes.

And the other ones where he grips himself.

They should have given the role to Jack Stratton Smith, who's dating Australia's answer to Graham Norton.

Jack's cute, but he doesn't have the same look as Matt Wilson.

R80 "Australia's answer to Graham Norton" is a daffy mincing queen.

Daffy mincing queens are in demand at the moment like poodles or African babies used to be.

He will have to develop a bigger 'schtick' if he doesn't want his career to fade like Julian Cary's did.

His co-star and screen partner tired of being asked what it's like to play a gay character

Has Hugh Jackman bareback fucked his ass yet?

He forgot to add that his character is also as anodyne and sexless as any gay character on Australian soaps.

R79 Matt Wilson is gay for pay on TV but he spent about 12 hours being a public spectacle in 2days of Sydney's Mardi Gras last month.

Endless number of queens came up and demanded selfies. Sometimes Matt embraced them and sometimes he merely pretended to embrace them. But he was smiling constantly.

Oooh R86

[Quote] He forgot to add that his character is also as anodyne and sexless as any gay character on Australian soaps.

Still doing better than Home And Away.

Are gay characters not allowed to have sex on the Australian soaps?

Matt I believe recently posted something about how Neighbors would be changing its tv rating so would allow the show to be a little more naughty or something.

R90 they might as well.

R89 No characters are allowed to have sex on Australian soaps if they are shown before 9pm in the evening.

I agree with him....I'm tired of the gay "minstrel" character on TV.

Probably not the best term for him to use even though in his case I don't think he meant anything untoward. "Typical" might have been more palatable to the oversensitive types that run rampant on social media. But for those people even THAT would probably be "problematic".

Unfortunately, words like "normal/abnormal" , "deviation/deviant", "aberrant/aberration" have ,through constant use by anti-homosexual groups and individuals, developed negative connotations that are meant to be a form of attack and condemnation. Technically, they are true and apt descriptors for natural world phenomenon but they have been politicized.

I think "variant/variation" has a nicer sound to it.

Fuck---so hot!

All is FORGIVEN!

Bautiful skin---looks so soft and creamy. But him being Australian we all know THAT won't last.

^^^Beautiful, I mean.

R95, I think I detect a possible cut cock outline in those underwear, but I can't be 100% certain.

He has a semi-stiffie in some of his Aussie Bum advertisements.

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He seems gorgeous, so all is forgiven!

He's no David Wolfman Williams.

[quote]before 9pm in the evening.

As opposed to before 9pm in the morning?

R102 David Wolfman Williams has disappeared from public life.

pmuB

If she is "str8" then so are we!

It's pointless complaining about the words uttered by pretty-boy soap stars.

90% of the dialogue they utter on screen is utterly brainless and inconsistent from week to week.

I appreciate that the gay charactors on Neighbours aren't mincing caracitures like on the US sitcoms. They are just regular guys who happen to be gay. In my experience that is closer to reality.

Bump

R109 You'd do a better bump if you supplied some pictures of this soapie star in some low-riding speedos or clutching his groin.

R110

I'm not at all offended. I look at context, and the speaker's intent. I think that always makes the most sense in all fairness. I'm keen on replacing the word with "average", "everyman", or "ordinary", just so as to avoid being swallowed up in the pitfalls of modern "woke" culture. It would seem many of us go out of our way looking for trouble, and alienate innocent people. After all, he is a fit young sexy thing, brave enough to play a gay character, and I should think that alone would probably put him in our camp of allies.

Mincing people's words, and constantly whinging on he "should have said...", or "he could have said...." is tiresome, slightly narcissistic, and highly immature.

He needs to shut his fucking mouth. He’s a moron.

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Normal implies, the norm. If you take any group of whatever's, the norm will be the largest percentage of that group, that displays a similar pattern or behavior. He's saying, shows that only have gay males of a particular type, are not t norm for gay males. The effeminate gay male is a stereotype and most gay males behave in a similar or identical pattern to straight males. The effeminate gay male is the outliner, and has become a stereotype.

In a few years, that stereotype will be likened to blackface.

Yes, R114, and Justin (Buttocks) Trudeau is telling us that BLACKFACE IS ACCEPTABLE.

R114 for a second there those twins looked like they were going to make out.

R117 Lovely Luke Packham and Josh were hugging with tears in their eyes tonight as unfortunately Josh got voted out.

I hate this show because they're always switching the rules to create maximum drama. Sometimes the public votes, sometimes the participants vote; sometimes they vote out a single and sometimes they vote out a couple.

I don't know if Luke is latently gay but here he is flirting with a semi-out young gay Instagrammer—

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I don't really see anything wrong with what he said. There's nothing normal about the gays portrayed on shows like Queer Eye, and it's fucked up that straight people are allowed to think that that's what a normal gay person looks like (the flaming stereotype who skips down the sidewalk, limp wrists fluttering in the wind).

If not for actual gay men who are young handsome with a great body, he would have not secured that role. It's just a more recent stereotype. Gay men can never win>think Mayor Pete. They are either too gay or not gay enough. You can never please everybody. That said, this guy is either latent or he gets hit on by many actual gay men and is uncomfortable. (or not).

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I flame out! My bestie doesn’t. The actor worded it badly. There’s room for both. (And all) Now let’s sing Kumbaya (to a disco beat )

I forgot Tim joined Neighbours. I bet he's terrible.

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"We going to have the same handful of actors always play the role of the gay guy?"

Because there's only a handful of gay actors?

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He's awfully cute. But his body is too worked out, pumped up, and what's the word, gay.

I think, and I mean this quite seriously and most respectfully to the dear boy and to all straight normal men though obviously none are on here, that he'd look even better, were that possible, if his bod was more straight-normal like. Less tits, a bit of flab, not so broad about the chest and delts, pale. Early dad so to speak.

Oh and I agree with him. I get what he's saying.

R127 all the Fijian men are hot.