Has Any Straight Actor Played Gay In the Movies More Than Once?

Ewan McGregor

Michael Sheen

What films r1?

Ewan- Velvet Goldmine and I Love You Philip Morris.There are others but I know those off the top of my head.

Michael-Wilde and Fabulosa

"It seems like they all do it once to make themselves look PC and edgy."

If they refused to play characters you'd call them bigots....but if they do they're (heaven forbid!) "PC"

Colin Firth has played multiple gay roles.

Jude Law - Wilde and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Helen Lawson as Sappho, Goddess of Love of Love and Coach Diesel in The Miracle Team. Of course, nothing is explicitly stated but the subtext could not be more obvious.

Kevin Kline - In and Out and De-Lovely

Armie Hammer:

Call Me By Your Name

J. Edgar

Final Portrait

I remember Lawson's playful shower catfight with the young Debbie Reynonlds in The Miracle Team. It's amazing such a thing was released in a mainstream American film in 1957.

Hugh Grant - Maurice and A Very English Scandal

R10 all was well until Agnes Moorehead came to the set to visit Debbie. Needless to say, it ended in tears and snatched wigs.

Catherine Deneuve: Repulsion and The Hunger

Sam Heughan, A Plague over England and a Very British Sex Scandal. He seems to be closeted but claims to be hetero

[quote]it ended in tears and snatched wigs.

And probably some wigged snatches as well.

Lol r15.

Merkin.

Tom Hanks - Philadelphia and That Thing You Do (sort of - there's a scene that was edited out of the final cut that makes it clear his character is gay, although you wouldn't know if you hadn't seen that particular scene)

Any straight actor desperate for an award.

Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain and Velvet Buzzsaw. And I feel like his character in The Sisters Brothers could have been gay.

Jake Gyllenhaal did BROKEBACK and VELVET BUZZSAW.

lol R20

What scene, R17?

Jake's not straight, so.....

R11 - Hugh Grant - Maurice and A Very English Scandal

Hugh also did Our Sons, a TV movie about the mothers of a gay couple.

But it does seem like Colin Firth wins this thread. Apartment Zero, Where the Truth Lies, Mamma Mia (and sequel), A Single Man.

[quote]I remember Lawson's playful shower catfight with the young Debbie Reynonlds in The Miracle Team. It's amazing such a thing was released in a mainstream American film in 1957.

More below-the-waist hair pulling than in Valley of the Dolls.

Steve Carrell

Sir Michael Caine:

California Suite

Deathtrap

And both characters were named "Sidney!"

Richard Burton in Villain and Staircase

Matt Damon - The Talented Mr Ripley and Behind the Candelabra

Dan Futterman - Urbania, Will & Grace

[quote] Jake's not straight, so.....

But he is CUT, okay?

Peter Finch:

"The Trials of Oscar Wilde" aka "The Man with the Green Carnation" (Look at that movie poster!)

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Technically Jake plays bisexual in Velvet Buzzsaw. I think he's playing himself. There always seems to be a wink wink to the audience there.

Tom Hardy.

RocknRoller The gay twin in Legend

Though "playing" might not be the right word.

No mention of John Michael Higgins?, and yes, he is straight.

Robin WIlliams:

The Birdcage

The Night Listener

Does her character even have a sexuality in Repulsion, R13? She has played at least 3 lesbian characters though, including The Hunger.

Natasha Lyonne - But I'm a Cheerleader, Addicted to Fresno and I think she also plays the girlfriend of Clea DuVall in an indie movie

Emily Blunt - My Summer of Love and Sunshine Cleaning (the last one is probably more of a bisexual though)

Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes and The Favourite (the last one probably also more of a bisexual)

Kate Winslet - Heavenly Creatures and a movie that is coming up, Ammonite

Lots of female actresses seem to do it quite often.

James Marsden. The 24th day (saw a thread here about this recently) and Heights.

God of only...

IF only

[quote]James Marsden. The 24th day (saw a thread here about this recently) and Heights.

Also at the end of the film "Sex Drive" his character is revealed to be gay and his character hooks up with Jack Black in "The D Train".

Josh O'Connor - an epi of London Irish, Amorous aka Hide and Seek, that dong movie

[quote]that dong movie

lolol

Is Campbell Scott straight? He was in Longtime Companion and The Dying Gaul (he had a sex scene with Peter Sarsgaard).

R43, very, very straight.

Leonardo DiCaprio - in Total Eclipse and as J. Edgar Hoover.

Robert Downey Jr - Home for the Holidays and Wonder Boys.

R30 Dear gods, I STILL have a crush on Futterman.

James Franco - Milk, King Cobra, The Broken Tower, Howl, Interior - Leather Bar

Ryan Carnes in Eating Out, Desperate Housewives, and General Hospital

Buzzer for R49 - the subject is actors in MOVIES, not TV shows, sweetie.

Timothée Chalamet

"Sir Michael Caine: California Suite, Deathtrap"

He also played trans in "Dressed To Kill".

Philip Seymour Hoffman.

CAPOTE BOOGIE NIGHTS

Do the guys at Sean Cody count? Because not a single one of them is "gay"!

Bobby Cannavale

[quote]Timothée Chalamet

What's the film besides Call Me By Your Name?

Whoopi Goldberg

Julianne Moore

Antonio Banderas

You seriously couldn't think of a single actor who has played gay more than once OP? It isn't rare.

PSH was awfully fey in "The Talented Mr. Ripley", though I guess his character was (mostly) straight.

Finn Wittrock- "Masters of Sex", "Locating Silverlake", "ACS: Versace", "The Normal Heart", and kinda "AHS: Hotel"

We’re all doing the work for some tragic buzzfeed quiz writer and/or some lazy assistant whose boss is producing a gay movie.

Armie Hammer - J. Edgar, Final Portrait, CMBYN. Although even his straight characters come off as flaming queens (On the Basis of Sex, for starters).

Patrick Stewart:

Tobi in "Match"

Sterling in "Jeffrey"

Michael Caine also played gay in Miss Congeniality

Hasn't Al Pacino played gay or questioning characters more than once?

R37 Natasha is bi

Alfred Molina

Michael Caine seems to be gay in Miss Congeniality.

John Hurt:

The Naked Civil Servant

Partners

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Life and Death on Long Island

An Englishman in New York

Daniel Day-Lewis: My Beautiful Laundrette and Lincoln

Define straight. How the hell do I know where these people are on the spectrum?

Tony Randall

Dan Futterman also was in "The Birdcage" with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams

Brad Rowe ('memba him?): Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Shelter

Patrick Stewart also played gay in the film version of Jeffrey.

R19 Jake G. is gay so he doesn't count.

R24 Hugh Grant also played gay in The Gentlemen.

Rupert Graves - Maurice & Clapham Junction

James Wilby - Maurice & Clapham Junction

True, r74, but his character was straight in that

R79 I forgot about them. I swore that Rupert Graves was gay, but he isn’t! Wife and five children. So humpy at one time.

R60 He, like everyone else in the movie (and the audience), seemed hot for Jude Law.

Hugh Jackman in Bad Education and The Boy from Oz.

I thought Tony Randall only played one gay role. Felix was not gay, he was a very fussy straight man.

R81 Graves talks about his character's homosexuality in Maurice and how he approached it in this excellent interview @ 4:02...

Hugh Grant and James Wilby, reunited 30 years after Maurice, talk about their gay roles...

R58 mentioned Antonio Banderas, but didn't mention the movies:

Philadelphia and Law of Desire.

Dan Bucatinsky in All Over the Guy (2001) and the TV series Marry Me.

^^^ Sorry, forgot that we're talking about straight actors; Bucatinsky is gay.

Brandon Routh- "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", "Partners"

Wilby has not aged well at all.

Antonio Banderas also played gay in PAIN & GLORY and was nominated for an Oscar for it.

Richard E. Grant in Pret-A-Porter (aka Ready to Wear) & Can You Ever Forgive Me

And yes he is straight and married with children.

Franklin Pangborne

Pierre Deladonchamps in Stranger by the Lake & Sorry Angel

(wasted on women)

Ewan McGregor - add The Pillow Book to his list. Though I think technically that character was bi?

R8, aw, I love him in those films

Stanley Tucci in Devil Wears Prada and (reprising the role in) Burlesque.

Alex Dimitriades - Head On & The Principle (Australian TV series)

Huppert, Deneuve, Blanchett, Sarandon, too many to list.

Banderas played gay in Pain and Glory and pretends to be gay in a scene in Femme Fatale. Is Lucas Hedges straight? He played gay in Lady Bird and Boy Erased.

[quote] Dan Futterman also was in "The Birdcage" with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams

His character in "The Birdcage" was straight

Banderas also played a gay character in "Law of Desire" (which is how he became famous)

Kevin Kline starred in IN AND OUT in the late 1990s and then he played Cole Porter in some other movie.

Blanchett and Sarandon played gay more than once, R100?

r104 Really?

Tom Hardy’s Eames in [italic]Inception[/italic] didn’t strike me as heterosexual, and in an alternate ending of [italic]This Means War[/italic] his character chose Chris Pine’s character over Reese Witherspoon’s.

Jared Ledo -- Alexander and Dallas Buyers Club

Harris Dickinson in BEACH RATS and POSTCARDS FROM LONDON.

I really disliked BEACH RATS, but just watched POSTCARDS tonight. Highly stylized, extremely arty, very pretentious, and gay, Gay, GAY. For fans of Harris, it's basically a 90-minute wet dream. (He really is fucking gorgeous.)

But Hugh Jakman,Jared Leto, Sam Heughan, RDJ.......are NOT straight.

"Leonardo DiCaprio - in Total Eclipse and as J. Edgar Hoover"

Umm...

Seemed for a while that every tiMe you turned around Bobby Cannavale was doing a gay role. I guess we’re counting Darren Criss as gay ...

Banderas played gay for Almodovar way back in the early1980s in Laberinto de pasiones (Labyrinth of Passion). And he's not exactly straight in real life.

John Michael Higgins is straight?

I believe Christopher Sean in some parody movie and DOOL.

R110 Well, no one is straight on DL

Banderas was Almodóvar's muse for ages, so he had a lot more opportunities to play gay than most actors. (Some of them were even in front of a film camera!)

[quote]no one is straight on DL

R116 This thread is full of straight actors so fuck your tired old meme.

[quote] I thought Tony Randall only played one gay role. Felix was not gay, he was a very fussy straight man.

It seemed to me that he was gaying it up in most of his roles.

R118 Full? That's like 10 men mentioned so far and few women. In is he gay threads, there are hundreds of men name's dropped

Michael Cassidy

R8 and R106, I apologize that I didn't see your posting. R104 .

[quote]I guess we’re counting Darren Criss as gay ...

So his gay movie roles are....???

Duarte Gomes

R113 Banderas is straight. No gay man would fuck Melanie Griffith.

I think Banderas started out as a rentboy.