Who Would Datalounge Cast as Tab Hunter in the Upcoming JJ Abrams Biopic?

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Someone who's actually gay

^^ then Finn is your man. He also cannot act like Tab.

Oh? When did Finn come out?

Finn Wittrock. Beautiful man. Just played Judy Garlands last husband Mickey Deans in "Judy"

I agree with OP's choice. Tab had a very wide smile.

Naw. We need a square jawed bland blond.

Good luck with that.

I already stole a role from an Asian, so I can do this one .

We demand diversity and color-blind casting. You wanted a gay man............. Hello!

There is no one around who's handsome enough to play Tab Hunter.

R1 - good choice.

Evan Peters has his eyes

Hunter Parrish - and not just because of the first name. And he can sing! (Tab recorded some pop songs).

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Freddy Stroma?

Why are all these fucking hets making biographies about gay men?

I'd rather have a gay unknown than any straight actor

Good choice, R15. Get that peroxide on him stat!

[quote] he has a round chubby face and those weird recessive gene earlobes that make him look like a grinch.

Haha! Ginch-like creature.

In the pic OP posted, looks like the guy has smoked copious amounts of pot.

Silly.

Ok....no one can deny this gorgeous face and gorgeous-er ass! I'd Tab him!

Who’s that at R24?

R25

[quote]Why are all these fucking hets making biographies about gay men?

Zachary Quinto's co-producing it with JJ.

Is there sufficient drama in Arthur Gelien's life?

He was astonishingly beautiful and a charming pop singer. But he was failed actor and not very bright. He moved house every five years and preferred animals to humans.

I can only imagine this working with a great deal of distorting, lies and exaggeration to get any drama.

Hunter's def got the body, but he ever played gay before?

r24 r25 some random "my straight buddy" model I jacked off to his ass waaay too much and got a friction burn on my dick when the internet was 56k lol

Hunter Parrish looks nothing like Tab.

Trevor Donovan

Hunter is too short. Chris Zylka, Luke Macfarlane, Sean Keenan, or if you want a bigger build Alan Ritchson or Dylan Bruce.

Alan Ritchson, YES!

No! Alan Ritchson is too brutish, too Cro-Magnon-looking to play such a pretty thing as Tab.

[quote] Trevor Donovan

Great choice. And he’s gay too.

Look at this.

Look how he blushes!

Another vote for Alan Ritchson. He can sing.

Though I wish Hollywood would make a biopic on a gay actor who deserves it, like William Haines. His story is Oscar worthy, though it would absolutely make closet cases like Tom Cruise and Jake Gyllenhaal reel with embarrassment.

DL... DL... DL...

How could I have been the first to post DL Fave Chandler Massey.

The guy looks the part and he can act. He would be el perfecto!

Tab was about 6 feet tall, so please no shorties.

Also OP is a bit late to the party. This news came out over a year ago.

Chambo

R10 R11 You're supposed to sign your post with the name of the person you're pretending to be.

[Quote] - Scarlett Johansson [Quote] - DL Favorite Billy Porter

Luke Macfarlane is also gay, tall and can sing

Tab may not have been very bright or talented, but he did get to enjoy Roddy McDowall's huge cock.

Brandon Flynn

r38 I think Tab is way deserving. He owned his gayness way before anyone else, when it comes to leading heartthrobs that is. He was forced out and then refused to come back because of whom he loved. Tht is worthy of a biopic in my opinion.

R47, And, in contrast to his former boyfriend, Tony Perkins, who lost his straight virginity to Victoria Principal at 39, went through conversion therapy, married Berry Berensen, and fathered her children, Tab stayed true to himself and left showbiz rather than deal with the PR bullshit of playing straight.

[quote] Tab may not have been very bright or talented, but he did get to enjoy Roddy McDowall's huge cock.

I did not realize Roddy had been in The Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”.

Calling all gurls!

Tab's butt in gingham short shorts. Those thighs!

My cake for your sausage.

r51 The hunk with Tab is John Bromfield. He was straight.

More Tab and John Bromfield.

R47 R48 The counter argument is that William Haines was way ahead of his time, 30 years before Tab Hunter. He gave up his prominent A-List movie star career at MGM (he was the #1 box office draw in the early 1930's, something Tab Hunter could never make claim to) for his long term partner, Jimmie Shields. Then, he managed to make a career for himself as an interior decorator for the stars and the Queen while still being in an openly gay relationship; an extraordinary feat for his time period. There has been development work on this story for years and there was a crappy London musical earlier this decade. It deserves a proper movie as, considering how much power the anti gay forces have in this country and how half of Hollywood is still closeted, it's important that people know this man and his legacy. It takes priority over Tab Hunter, in my opinion.

R54 Tab's thinking "Wedding ring or no wedding ring, I'm getting that daddy dick."

You know who's going to get the part.

^ Sacrilege!

They'll probably go with Timothee

OP's choice sure looks like Tab in this pic.

Nobody is as beautiful as Tab Hunter.

Whoever they finally cast will come up short.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if someone in Zachary Quinto's or JJ Abrams' camp started this thread to see who we thought should play Tab Hunter? There hasn't been news on this movie for months and now this thread just randomly appears here on the DL? My hunch is someone on their team is feeling us out. Hopefully, they take our suggestions and put them to good use.

[quote]Now that I'm thinking about it, I wonder if someone in Zachary Quinto's or JJ Abrams' camp started this thread to see who we thought should play Tab Hunter?

Ha! I wish.

Tab may be appearing as a character in Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood,” however. Rock Hudson and Henry Wilson are both in it.

I wonder how Ryan will straight-wash that show R64

Will Ryan cast Gaga as Mamie Van Doren?

I’d rather have a Diet Coke, thank you.

R39 got it right! Chandler Massey would be great in that role. A great All American boy look

I think Mason Dye would have this part sewn up.

R69 Not a bad choice.

What do you mean bad actor? This film trailer alone is Oscar-worthy!!

R71, I watched that on TCM recently, and my goodness!, Tab was so handsome. I'm not usually into blonds, but Tab was fine!

R69 Too bad he's short

R68, perhaps Chandler is afraid of being typecast in gay roles?

Who am I kidding? He doesn’t get any roles outside Days of Our Lives.

Charlie Hunnam

Do any of the proposed casting choices have yellow skin?

I drink Tab.

And the funny, or sad, thing is R48, Tab died of old age while Perkins died of AIDS complications.

Aaron Milo from the "Eating Out" movies. Maybe not as Tab, but I could definitely see him playing Anthony Perkins. I hope they're going to touch on that in the film.

Wishful thinking R79.

The late Tony Perkins had no chest at all. His chest was half as wide as his hips.

His chest was as thin as a pipe-cleaner.

Kyle Dean Massey, Broadway Star. Maybe he could play Tab if he went blond. I didn't realize how much him and Aaron Milo look similar. Both are gay. Also, Massey's husband, Taylor Frey could make good as the figure skater Ronald Robertson, who Tab was in a long term relationship with.

[quote] Kyle Dean Massey

Any relation to Chandler?

Taylor Frey

R82, I don't believe so.

R81 Ronald Robertson, with whom Tab was in a long term relationship.

This little movie will avoid the last 40 years of Tab's life when he was unemployed and when he was moving from house to house and spending more time with his horses and re-asserting his Christian, Republican values.

Scott Michael Foster.

He's tall, blonde and masculine Tab was so masculine, he was under the radar.

As once DLer once wrote of Matt Bomber, Tab's eyes convey the "frisson of barely controlled hysteria."

Chris Carmack! And he can sing

Camera thin, camera ready!

Andrew Garfield as Anthony Perkins

Billy Magnuson as Tab Hunter

Billy is too old.

Luke Benward, 24, Blonde, tall (6'2") and handsome.

Too fat.

Yes, too fat. Not blonde or blond.

R90 Yes, Andrew Garfield absolutely has to play Tony Perkins

Well, at least Andrew has experiencing in being closeted in Hollywood.

*experience

,nnnnnn

He doesn't look fat to me. Actors dye their hair all the time.

Quite fat.

Billy Magnussen is 34 years old. Certainly not too old to play a man who lived to be 86.

Obese.

Agree, R102. Obese.

Do any of these potential actors have yellow skin.

He may not be fat per se, R99, but his features lack definition. Tab's cheekbones were carved out of marble.

The actors have to be young, preferably in their mid-20s: Tab and Tony met in 1956, when Tab was 25 and Tony was 24. Their relationship lasted for 3 years.

This is hard. They will probably pick unknown actors.

Kevin Quinn

R46 I would support Brandon Flynn

{OT Does anyone remember when the Roddy McDowall papers will be released and who has them?]

R110 Here’s some info, doesn’t specify restrictions from what’s here.

Why would you suggest that, OP? He can hardly act.

[quote]Who Would Datalounge Cast as Tab Hunter in the Upcoming JJ Abrams Biopic?

An American actor.

A Gay actor.

A Gay actor.

r113 This. The pattern of giving these biopic roles to straight actors and then congratulating them with awards because they're so brave needs to fucking stop already. It's gross.

Don't care if he's an American, though, I just want [bold]excellent[/bold] gay actors. Put Jonathan Bailey on that shit, dye his hair blond, and watch him clean up at the Academy Awards.

Brandon Flynn is too short.

I'd be willing to play the part as long as they remove any references to his homosexuality.

r115 And he's not a good actor.

You can film around the actor being too short, but you can't film around the lack of acting chops.

R80, Tony's chest looks fine. I don't see any problem there.

Ah, yes, Aaron Milo, that famous actor with exactly two acting credits on his IMDb page...

I care if the actor is gay AND American. The outsourcing of both normal and iconic American roles has become ridiculous. Are young American actors really that bad these days?

Rhetorical question, I guess. But these casting directors could try a little harder.

R120, Didn't say he was famous. Not sure why you're up your own arse about it. Most of the actors listed here aren't relatively known.

It's ART, so we can't exactly talk about outsourcing. It literally doesn't represent a drop in the ocean of your GDP, if you're concerned about that. I hate what Trump has done to some people... national borders literally don't matter when it comes to homosexuality, especially when everyone speaks the same fucking language. So less jingoism and more humanism, for fuck sake.

But yes, (young) American gay actors aren't that great. And you can thank the entire industry for that for systematically excluding them from casting. No casting, no awards, no recognition, no role models to speak of... it'll be a while to get past that.

r122 No one but you is up anyone's ass about it, dear. Why cast a non-entity with TWO acting credits? Bitch isn't even in the guild, probably.

You'd most likely get better results by casting someone off the street, if the bar is so low. Which I don't think it needs to be. Does that clear it up for you?

Tab and Tony both had cut cocks so that should be kept in mind when casting.

R125 How do you know?

R90 makes a lot of sense. Besides, 25 year old men back then looked older than they do now. Unless they find some unkown German actor ?

Hunter was also a good guy. He took care financially of his numerous nieces and nephews when his older brother was killed in Vietnam.