It seems like they all do it once to make themselves look PC and edgy. Who has played gay or lesbian more than once?
I can’t remember....
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It seems like they all do it once to make themselves look PC and edgy. Who has played gay or lesbian more than once?
I can’t remember....
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 9, 2020 8:16 AM |
Ewan McGregor
Michael Sheen
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 29, 2020 4:34 PM |
What films r1?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 29, 2020 4:35 PM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 29, 2020 4:38 PM |
"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"
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 29, 2020 4:39 PM |
Colin Firth has played multiple gay roles.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 29, 2020 4:39 PM |
Jude Law - Wilde and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 29, 2020 4:39 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 29, 2020 4:48 PM |
Kevin Kline - In and Out and De-Lovely
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 29, 2020 4:50 PM |
Armie Hammer:
Call Me By Your Name
J. Edgar
Final Portrait
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 29, 2020 4:51 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 29, 2020 5:03 PM |
Hugh Grant - Maurice and A Very English Scandal
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 29, 2020 5:04 PM |
R10 all was well until Agnes Moorehead came to the set to visit Debbie. Needless to say, it ended in tears and snatched wigs.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 29, 2020 5:06 PM |
Catherine Deneuve: Repulsion and The Hunger
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 29, 2020 5:11 PM |
Sam Heughan, A Plague over England and a Very British Sex Scandal. He seems to be closeted but claims to be hetero
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 29, 2020 5:12 PM |
[quote]it ended in tears and snatched wigs.
And probably some wigged snatches as well.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 29, 2020 5:13 PM |
Lol r15.
Merkin.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 29, 2020 5:14 PM |
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)
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 29, 2020 5:29 PM |
Any straight actor desperate for an award.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 29, 2020 5:48 PM |
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain and Velvet Buzzsaw. And I feel like his character in The Sisters Brothers could have been gay.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 29, 2020 5:54 PM |
Jake Gyllenhaal did BROKEBACK and VELVET BUZZSAW.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 29, 2020 5:57 PM |
lol R20
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 29, 2020 5:57 PM |
What scene, R17?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 29, 2020 6:06 PM |
Jake's not straight, so.....
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 29, 2020 6:09 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 29, 2020 6:20 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 29, 2020 6:24 PM |
Steve Carrell
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 29, 2020 6:31 PM |
Sir Michael Caine:
California Suite
Deathtrap
And both characters were named "Sidney!"
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 29, 2020 6:45 PM |
Richard Burton in Villain and Staircase
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 29, 2020 6:48 PM |
Matt Damon - The Talented Mr Ripley and Behind the Candelabra
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 29, 2020 7:19 PM |
Dan Futterman - Urbania, Will & Grace
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 29, 2020 7:41 PM |
[quote] Jake's not straight, so.....
But he is CUT, okay?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 29, 2020 7:45 PM |
Peter Finch:
"The Trials of Oscar Wilde" aka "The Man with the Green Carnation" (Look at that movie poster!)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 29, 2020 8:36 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 29, 2020 8:50 PM |
Tom Hardy.
RocknRoller The gay twin in Legend
Though "playing" might not be the right word.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 29, 2020 9:00 PM |
No mention of John Michael Higgins?, and yes, he is straight.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 29, 2020 9:07 PM |
Robin WIlliams:
The Birdcage
The Night Listener
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 29, 2020 9:20 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 29, 2020 9:28 PM |
James Marsden. The 24th day (saw a thread here about this recently) and Heights.
God of only...
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 29, 2020 9:49 PM |
IF only
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 29, 2020 9:51 PM |
[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".
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 29, 2020 9:54 PM |
Josh O'Connor - an epi of London Irish, Amorous aka Hide and Seek, that dong movie
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 29, 2020 9:56 PM |
[quote]that dong movie
lolol
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 29, 2020 9:57 PM |
Is Campbell Scott straight? He was in Longtime Companion and The Dying Gaul (he had a sex scene with Peter Sarsgaard).
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 29, 2020 10:08 PM |
R43, very, very straight.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 29, 2020 10:10 PM |
Leonardo DiCaprio - in Total Eclipse and as J. Edgar Hoover.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 29, 2020 10:16 PM |
Robert Downey Jr - Home for the Holidays and Wonder Boys.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 29, 2020 10:30 PM |
R30 Dear gods, I STILL have a crush on Futterman.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 29, 2020 10:36 PM |
James Franco - Milk, King Cobra, The Broken Tower, Howl, Interior - Leather Bar
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 29, 2020 10:38 PM |
Ryan Carnes in Eating Out, Desperate Housewives, and General Hospital
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 29, 2020 10:42 PM |
Buzzer for R49 - the subject is actors in MOVIES, not TV shows, sweetie.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 29, 2020 10:53 PM |
Timothée Chalamet
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 29, 2020 10:55 PM |
"Sir Michael Caine: California Suite, Deathtrap"
He also played trans in "Dressed To Kill".
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 29, 2020 10:58 PM |
Philip Seymour Hoffman.
CAPOTE BOOGIE NIGHTS
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 29, 2020 11:03 PM |
Do the guys at Sean Cody count? Because not a single one of them is "gay"!
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 29, 2020 11:04 PM |
Bobby Cannavale
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 29, 2020 11:04 PM |
[quote]Timothée Chalamet
What's the film besides Call Me By Your Name?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 29, 2020 11:05 PM |
Whoopi Goldberg
Julianne Moore
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 29, 2020 11:05 PM |
Antonio Banderas
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 29, 2020 11:08 PM |
You seriously couldn't think of a single actor who has played gay more than once OP? It isn't rare.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 29, 2020 11:16 PM |
PSH was awfully fey in "The Talented Mr. Ripley", though I guess his character was (mostly) straight.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 29, 2020 11:17 PM |
Finn Wittrock- "Masters of Sex", "Locating Silverlake", "ACS: Versace", "The Normal Heart", and kinda "AHS: Hotel"
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 29, 2020 11:21 PM |
We’re all doing the work for some tragic buzzfeed quiz writer and/or some lazy assistant whose boss is producing a gay movie.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 29, 2020 11:39 PM |
Armie Hammer - J. Edgar, Final Portrait, CMBYN. Although even his straight characters come off as flaming queens (On the Basis of Sex, for starters).
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 29, 2020 11:57 PM |
Patrick Stewart:
Tobi in "Match"
Sterling in "Jeffrey"
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 30, 2020 12:07 AM |
Michael Caine also played gay in Miss Congeniality
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 30, 2020 12:32 AM |
Hasn't Al Pacino played gay or questioning characters more than once?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 30, 2020 1:36 AM |
R37 Natasha is bi
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 30, 2020 1:42 AM |
Alfred Molina
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 30, 2020 1:43 AM |
Michael Caine seems to be gay in Miss Congeniality.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 30, 2020 2:30 AM |
John Hurt:
The Naked Civil Servant
Partners
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Life and Death on Long Island
An Englishman in New York
by Anonymous | reply 70 | July 30, 2020 3:21 AM |
Daniel Day-Lewis: My Beautiful Laundrette and Lincoln
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 30, 2020 7:04 AM |
Define straight. How the hell do I know where these people are on the spectrum?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 30, 2020 7:07 AM |
Tony Randall
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 30, 2020 7:48 AM |
Dan Futterman also was in "The Birdcage" with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 30, 2020 8:22 AM |
Brad Rowe ('memba him?): Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Shelter
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 30, 2020 10:55 AM |
Patrick Stewart also played gay in the film version of Jeffrey.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 30, 2020 11:03 AM |
R19 Jake G. is gay so he doesn't count.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 30, 2020 11:07 AM |
R24 Hugh Grant also played gay in The Gentlemen.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 30, 2020 11:08 AM |
Rupert Graves - Maurice & Clapham Junction
James Wilby - Maurice & Clapham Junction
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 30, 2020 11:12 AM |
True, r74, but his character was straight in that
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 30, 2020 11:40 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 30, 2020 12:00 PM |
R60 He, like everyone else in the movie (and the audience), seemed hot for Jude Law.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 30, 2020 12:02 PM |
Hugh Jackman in Bad Education and The Boy from Oz.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 30, 2020 12:03 PM |
I thought Tony Randall only played one gay role. Felix was not gay, he was a very fussy straight man.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 30, 2020 12:15 PM |
R81 Graves talks about his character's homosexuality in Maurice and how he approached it in this excellent interview @ 4:02...
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 30, 2020 12:21 PM |
Hugh Grant and James Wilby, reunited 30 years after Maurice, talk about their gay roles...
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 30, 2020 12:30 PM |
R58 mentioned Antonio Banderas, but didn't mention the movies:
Philadelphia and Law of Desire.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 30, 2020 12:37 PM |
Dan Bucatinsky in All Over the Guy (2001) and the TV series Marry Me.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | July 30, 2020 12:44 PM |
^^^ Sorry, forgot that we're talking about straight actors; Bucatinsky is gay.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 30, 2020 12:46 PM |
Brandon Routh- "Zack and Miri Make a Porno", "Partners"
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 30, 2020 12:49 PM |
Wilby has not aged well at all.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 30, 2020 12:51 PM |
Antonio Banderas also played gay in PAIN & GLORY and was nominated for an Oscar for it.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 30, 2020 1:26 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 30, 2020 1:56 PM |
Franklin Pangborne
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 30, 2020 2:02 PM |
Pierre Deladonchamps in Stranger by the Lake & Sorry Angel
(wasted on women)
by Anonymous | reply 95 | July 30, 2020 2:36 PM |
Ewan McGregor - add The Pillow Book to his list. Though I think technically that character was bi?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | July 30, 2020 2:47 PM |
R8, aw, I love him in those films
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 30, 2020 2:53 PM |
Stanley Tucci in Devil Wears Prada and (reprising the role in) Burlesque.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 30, 2020 2:59 PM |
Alex Dimitriades - Head On & The Principle (Australian TV series)
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 30, 2020 3:55 PM |
Huppert, Deneuve, Blanchett, Sarandon, too many to list.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 30, 2020 3:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | July 30, 2020 4:03 PM |
[quote] Dan Futterman also was in "The Birdcage" with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams
His character in "The Birdcage" was straight
by Anonymous | reply 102 | July 30, 2020 4:08 PM |
Banderas also played a gay character in "Law of Desire" (which is how he became famous)
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 30, 2020 4:08 PM |
Kevin Kline starred in IN AND OUT in the late 1990s and then he played Cole Porter in some other movie.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 31, 2020 2:33 AM |
Blanchett and Sarandon played gay more than once, R100?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | July 31, 2020 2:42 AM |
r104 Really?
by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 31, 2020 3:18 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | July 31, 2020 4:31 AM |
Jared Ledo -- Alexander and Dallas Buyers Club
by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 31, 2020 5:08 AM |
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.)
by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 31, 2020 5:17 AM |
But Hugh Jakman,Jared Leto, Sam Heughan, RDJ.......are NOT straight.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 31, 2020 6:46 AM |
"Leonardo DiCaprio - in Total Eclipse and as J. Edgar Hoover"
Umm...
by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 31, 2020 7:20 AM |
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 ...
by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 31, 2020 7:43 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 31, 2020 8:03 AM |
John Michael Higgins is straight?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 31, 2020 8:05 AM |
I believe Christopher Sean in some parody movie and DOOL.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 31, 2020 8:21 AM |
R110 Well, no one is straight on DL
by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 31, 2020 9:01 AM |
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!)
by Anonymous | reply 117 | July 31, 2020 3:37 PM |
[quote]no one is straight on DL
R116 This thread is full of straight actors so fuck your tired old meme.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | July 31, 2020 4:37 PM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | July 31, 2020 7:14 PM |
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
by Anonymous | reply 120 | July 31, 2020 11:32 PM |
Michael Cassidy
by Anonymous | reply 121 | August 9, 2020 7:28 PM |
R8 and R106, I apologize that I didn't see your posting. R104 .
by Anonymous | reply 122 | August 9, 2020 9:24 PM |
[quote]I guess we’re counting Darren Criss as gay ...
So his gay movie roles are....???
by Anonymous | reply 123 | August 9, 2020 10:23 PM |
Duarte Gomes
by Anonymous | reply 124 | August 10, 2020 9:11 AM |
R113 Banderas is straight. No gay man would fuck Melanie Griffith.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | August 10, 2020 9:49 AM |
I think Banderas started out as a rentboy.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | August 10, 2020 10:43 AM |
Vladimir Burlakov- Who I think has played gay at least 4 times.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | October 9, 2020 6:41 AM |
"Leonardo DiCaprio - in Total Eclipse and as J. Edgar Hoover."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
by Anonymous | reply 128 | October 9, 2020 7:10 AM |
You guys are good at this 👍👍
by Anonymous | reply 129 | October 9, 2020 7:11 AM |
Banderas was also in "Interview with the vampire"
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 9, 2020 8:16 AM |
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