Tom Hanks Does NOT Support Straight Playing Gay

Faggot.

She doth protest too much.

Relax, Tom. Straights can play gays and gays can play straight. It’s called acting.

I agree r3. I have no problem with straight actors playing gay.

How about we get pissed at the agents/managers/studios that keep their stars closeted instead because they think out gay can’t play straight!!

[quote] I have no problem with straight actors playing gay.

Gay actors say playing gay is NOT a costume you put on and off

How woke of him.

r6 it's called "acting" And many gay actors are fine with straight actors playing gay.

R8 not anymore

r9 you don't know what you're talking about.

I want Scarlett Johansson to play all the gay men’s roles. Preferably the Asian ones.

[quote] you don't know what you're talking about.

Please link or quote an OPENLY gay actor who is fine with a straight actor playing a gay part in 2022

r12 most people in the business are fine with it. Of course not every role being played by a straight actor but here and there it's fine, esp. an historical role.

I watched The Secrets of Dumbledore yesterday, and I have never been so offended in all my life. All of those muggle actors playing Wizards. A fatally toxic level of appropriation.

Eddie Remain, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelson, A Fine Frenzy, and so many others putting on Wizard costumes.

I don't care about straight actors playing gay roles, they are actors. It isn't the same as blackface. At least we have moved past the point where that is considered "brave" because it is a possible career ender.

I agree with R5, fuck all the people in the industry that continue to push mainstream actors to stay in the closet, and punish them if they do come out by relegating them to smaller roles, and dumping them into Indies, or only casting them in gay roles. That is the real problem, and when I see an out gay man consistently playing leading roles in blockbusters, I will consider that the real progress.

Not many openly gay actors would want to limit themselves playing strictly gay roles. How boring.

R12 So are they in turn saying they can’t play a straight role ever??

[quote] . It isn't the same as blackface.

What about a hearing actor playing someone deaf or mute - when we have tons of Deaf Actors out there?

Are you fine with a hearing person playing deaf?

[quote] So are they in turn saying they can’t play a straight role ever??

Wentworth Miller announced he will ONLY play gay characters from now on. More and more gay actors are following his lead,.

Relax, it's acting so it's fine. But, closeted actors (and the rest) should be outed. And I mean outed. I no longer have sympathy for hypocrites.

[quote]Wentworth Miller announced he will ONLY play gay characters from now on.

He has no upcoming projects on IMDB. Nothing beyond 2021.

[quote]I agree with [R5], fuck all the people in the industry that continue to push mainstream actors to stay in the closet, and punish them if they do come out by relegating them to smaller roles, and dumping them into Indies, or only casting them in gay roles. That is the real problem, and when I see an out gay man consistently playing leading roles in blockbusters, I will consider that the real progress.

This is why so many of them stay in the closet. Leo Dicaprio and Chris Pine are two good examples.

[quote]Not many openly gay actors would want to limit themselves playing strictly gay roles. How boring.

A lot of openly gay actors can't play straight to save their lives.

Andrew Rannells being one example.

What is going to end up happening is that no big gay movies will be made because big straight stars won't be in them and therefore help them get greenlit.

Tuc Watkins is one example of an openly gay actor who can and does play straight roles.

[quote] It’s not a crime, and it’s not boho...

Boho?

What about gay playing straight?

R5 they keep them closeted due to money. Straight audiences are the largest.

Straights want celebs they can crush on and who reflect their own lives.

[quote] Please link or quote an OPENLY gay actor who is fine with a straight actor playing a gay part in 2022

I'm an openly gay writer/director and I am more than okay with a straight person playing a gay character I create. If it doesn't bother me, then it shouldn't bother straight actors.

What’s going to happen is casting directors will hire closet/glass closet actors who the industry know are lgbt for lgbt roles, so if you see a actor in a recent lgbt role she/he are actually lgbt.

[quote]Straights want celebs they can crush on and who reflect their own lives.

In the current Hugh Jackman thread a poster wrote how he saw Jackman outside the theater after a show and his fans were there waiting for him. The fans were all middle-aged fraus, and there were a LOT of them. The poster said when he saw that, he no longer wondered why Jackman stays closeted. His entire career depends on it.

Dad, you weren't a strong male role model for me, and I don't find it very convincing when you play straight characters. Truth.

Tom is breathing rarefied air, so he obviously knows what's best for everyone.

Hanks HAS to say this. He is a straight guy who played a gay guy in a movie, and is currently living in an age that is ultra-sensitive to cultural appropriation.

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If Tom thinks Austin Butler has never been gay he is out of his mind.. How does Tom feel about GAYS playing STRAIGHT? Seacrest does it every day....LoL

and I'm for murderers NOT playing murderers

What about normal people playing spaz, Tom?

Gay actor here. No problem with straight actors playing gay roles.

OP- Tom Hanks in Philadelphia was NOT straight playing gay- he was GAY playing GAY

Tom Hanks is gay.

I find some of these soapbox rants about straight people playing gays and lesbians to be tiresome at this point. On a related note, I listened to a podcast where a group of lesbians did a review of Clea DuVall's movie Happiest Season and one person bitched quite a bit about how Clea wrote the screenplay with a straight female friend instead of seeking out another lesbian filmmaker or writer for the movie. I thought it was ridiculous as fuck, DuVall can pick whoever the fuck she wants write movies with.

r40 this kind of thing is reaching ridiculous levels. Clea Duvall can collaborate with whoever the fuck she wants, and so can anyone else.

R39 moreover he was playing victim

R41 R40 here I agree, it's reaching ridiculous levels. DuVall might have had a good reason to collaborate with a straight friend. Maybe, the friend was the only one available to work with her or whatever or they had similar ideas for subplots. From listening to that podcast, I got the vibe the reviewers just don't get that some screenwriters and filmmakers tend to collaborate with friends quite a bit regardless if the friend has a different life experience than them.

What’s next? Only actors with bipolar disorder and depression should play characters with bipolar disorder and depression?

[quote]Are you fine with a hearing person playing deaf?

Sure. It got me an Oscar.

R37- Uh Uh Uh Uh uh...Can't say SPAZ anymore!

[quote]R24 Tuc Watkins is one example of an openly gay actor who can and does play straight roles.

Surely he belongs in the “parents who give their kids annoying names” thread.

[quote]R28 If it doesn't bother me, then it shouldn't bother straight actors.

How democratic.

r47 = Neil Patrick Harris

Besides the hands shaking, TH looks really thin lately.

Tom Hanks drank away the 2nd part of his career. Pity.

This fucking gas bag. First he writes a NYT column about the Tulsa Race Riots and now he's sounding off about gay people. No one asked for your fucking opinion Tom! Why don't you spend less time being the spokesperson for decency and more time parenting that PoS man-child chet?

Textbook Boomer Entitlement.

"It was groundbreaking and wonderful when I did it, plus it majorly helped my career, but it would be wrong to give an actor that opportunity nowadays."

Chet is the only Hanks for me.

Chet is a massive loser and even he wouldn't fuck you, Defuckto. Go away

The chickenshit bitchy bottom who hides behind "Anonymous" to diss people on the internet cannot call other people "loser."

R56 Shut it obese aztec bottom defatturd!

R30 Most of Matt Bomer’s fans are middle age fraus and they know he is gay. They crush on him anyway and even embrace his husband Simon. They also wait outside theater doors and there are a lot of them.

I can’t even imagine Brokeback Mountain starring anyone other than Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Who else could have done that? Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Neil Patrick Harris? God, what a bore that would be.

And for some reason, I can’t picture Kal Penn (who I’ve had a stupid huge crush on forever) kissing a guy in a movie. I’d rather see him play a straight guy.

I’m all for straights playing gay and vice versa.

[quote] I can’t even imagine Brokeback Mountain starring anyone other than Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

I can

[quote]And for some reason, I can’t picture Kal Penn (who I’ve had a stupid huge crush on forever) kissing a guy in a movie. I’d rather see him play a straight guy.

[quote] I’m all for straights playing gay and vice versa.

Yeah, I would rather see Kal Penn playing a straight guy. I do like him.

Tig Notaro's wife Stephanie Allynne seems like she'd be better off playing straight women. Whenever she plays lesbians, it always seems off. A friend of mine has seen Allynne perform with her Wild Horses improv group in LA several times and she describes their comedy as being very straight woman type material.

[quote]R59 I can’t even imagine Brokeback Mountain starring anyone other than Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Who else could have done that? Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Neil Patrick Harris?

It was first offered to Johnny Depp.

Maybe he was too drunk.

Does he support white sons playing Black?

Thats really rich considering his role as a gay man that made him famous, only a stupid hollywood idiot would say something like that

Which role Brokeback Mountain role was Depp offered?

Well of course the self-loathers of DL would oppose this. They'd rather no openly gay man ever gets cast in anything.

Nobody said that r66. Just that straight actors should be able to play gay roles if they're suited for it.

r67 Why should they when the reverse isn't true?

r68 gay actors play straight roles. Neil Patrick Harris, David Hyde Pierce among others. If you're talking about romantic leads and action heroes, no we're not there yet. And that also has a lot to do with foreign markets.

r69 Oh wow, all of two examples from over a decade ago. What a stellar sign of equality. But go on, keep simping for the straights.

r70 you're obnoxious. Again, nobody said straight actors should always play gay roles. Just that it's called "acting" for a reason. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, was excellent in Power of the Dog. He deserved that role. I couldn't see Matt Bomer in it.

Your black and white thinking is endemic today and it's a detriment to rational thought and argument.

R64- are you talking about Tom Hanks? He was a star way before Philadelphia.

r71 Because, of course, Matt Bomer is the only openly gay actor. You're a fucking moron.

r73 it's just an example. God, you're dense. Grow up. Having gay roles only played by gay actors is authoritarian nonsense. But of course that's fashionable among so-called liberals now. And I'm a liberal, just an old-school one.

I remember the joke that if an actor wanted an Oscar they should either play a disabled person or a gay person. Tom clearly did both for his Oscars lol.

[quote]Having gay roles only played by gay actors is authoritarian nonsense

The mind-blowing stupidity

Stupid r76? Having gay roles only assigned to gay actors is authoritarian.

You can keep repeating it, doesn't make it any less stupid

So only gay actors should play gay roles? That's idiotic.

Gay actors don’t want to be limited to playing gay roles. There are far fewer movies with gay roles, especially leading roles.

Also closeted gay men have played credible romantic leads for many years. Rock Hudson, Monty Cliff, etc.

[quote] They'd rather no openly gay man ever gets cast in anything.

Please reference these posts.

[quote]Gay actors don’t want to be limited to playing gay roles.

Many aren't, things have changed a lot.

[quote]Gay actors don’t want to be limited to playing gay roles.

Who said they should be limited to gay roles? But until they actually do start casting based on ability and suitability, as opposed to appeasing homophobes in flyover states, why shouldn't gay actors have the right to play roles that the 'won't play in the midwest' excuse can't be applied to?

Not to mention the fact that the main reason straight actors want to play gay is for the Oscar and the 'you're so brave' bullshit, which is deeply patronising and insulting.

[quote]But until they actually do start casting based on ability and suitability, as opposed to appeasing homophobes in flyover states, why shouldn't gay actors have the right to play roles that the 'won't play in the midwest' excuse can't be applied to?

It's mostly foreign markets. Jesus fuck, Asians don't even like watching black actors. It sucks, but Hollywood is a business.

[quote]Not to mention the fact that the main reason straight actors want to play gay is for the Oscar and the 'you're so brave' bullshit, which is deeply patronising and insulting.

Um, hi. It's not 1995 anymore. Straight actors just play gay roles now and it's not "brave" anymore.

No won should have a “right” to play any role.

[quote]Um, hi. It's not 1995 anymore. Straight actors just play gay roles now and it's not "brave" anymore.

Because Hollywood is totally free of homophobia, racism and misogyny now, right? Fuckwit.

[quote]I wouldn't have played a gay man in "Philadelphia" but at that time all the gays were dead.

I fucking hate this “only gay actors can play gay characters” mentality. It should be about who’s best for the role, nothing else.

[quote]Straights want celebs they can crush on

But they're oblivious to the fact that a lot of those stars they admire so much are closet cases.

R88 = Should Dustin Hoffman have played Martin Luther King?

No, R90. He’s obviously not best for the part.

My post is just my opinion. You’re entitled to your own.

[quote]Because Hollywood is totally free of homophobia, racism and misogyny now, right? Fuckwit.

Jesus, you're just making up shit as you go along. Nobody said that. It is true that a straight actor playing a gay role is not a big deal anymore. I'm old enough to remember when it was a real risk, but thankfully those days are long over.

[quote]But they're oblivious to the fact that a lot of those stars they admire so much are closet cases.

It's amazing how clueless straights can be. They still think Leonardo Dicaprio and Hugh Jackman are straight.

I guess he doesn't have a problem with playing a retard in Forrest Gump. Or a crossdresser in Bosom Buddies, or a pilot, a ship Captain, an astronaut...

Exactly, R94. It's absurd.

I'll second that R45

I'm surprised members of the deaf community haven't dragged the late Patty Duke and Jane Wyman for those roles. When I was in college, I took a sociology course in which a section of the course was on how society treats people with disabilities. One the readings mentioned how in the late 70s, the deaf community was pissed when the movie Voices was made because Amy Irving played a deaf character and there were boycotts against the movie. Voices was a total flop, but for a long time it was one of those movies that aired frequently on cable movie channels for a long time.

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I was wondering too. Parkinson's?

Hanks is only 65? I thought he was in his early 70s.

Maybe Chet will be issuing another of his shirtless updates on his parents' health.

Funny how Chet looks nothing like Tom or Rita.

[quote]I have no problem with straight actors playing gay.

Remember when straight actors were going out of their way to describe how disgusting kissing a man was to them and how much will power it took to play gay?

[quote]We’re over that now, and I don’t think people will accept the falsity of a straight guy playing a gay guy."

Why not? If he's a good enough actor.

[quote]"It’s not a crime, and it’s not boho, for someone to say we’re going to demand more of a movie in the modern world of authenticity. Do I look like I’m preaching? I do not mean that."

Sounds like Hanks drank the Kool-Aid and is spouting woke word salad. It makes no sense.

Although I agree the quality of the acting is the most important factor, it does get annoying when straight actors play gay roles in ways that aren't at all convincing. Having a character say he's gay and then engaging in a bit of awkward kissing isn't good enough and we get a lot of that in the media.

All that should matter is whether an actor is convincing in the role. They shouldn't have to be (in real life) exactly like the character and in fact, that is the opposite of what acting is about: pretending to be somebody you are not.

If only straight can play straight and only gay can play gay, then gay actors are going to be screwed. No pun intended. I'm saying that gay actors and actresses will have very limited choices. Unless they never reveal what their sexuality is.

Does anyone else think that Tom Hanks is not straight? I think he might be bisexual....

Tom, you are so craven and ridiculous.

Please see Javier Bardem for a real actor playing a gay man.

So do we get rid of that twink who plays Anthony Bridgerton all the fraus and high school girls are swooning over?

r107 Gay actors are already screwed. They do not get a fair shot at roles. So until that's corrected, why shouldn't they at least be given a chance to work in gay roles, where the arguments made against gay actors (won't play in certain markets, not believable, etc) aren't applicable?

^^^ No. Creating an uneven playing field does not correct past errors. That's just illogical and does not work.

Unless all you care about is more jobs for a certain class of people rather than the quality of the field.

r110 Because gay actors are automatically worse than straight actors?

And by the way, they aren't past errors. It's going on right now.

Only transwomyn of color can play any role.

"Falsity...." it's not falsity, it's acting. I hate this pigeon holed casting idea. Does he pander or does he really buy into it?

Pandering.

Hey, a guy always needs another $20 million dollar pay day.

R109 Gay actors are given a chance to play gay roles. They just don’t just automatically get them.

Suck my dick so I can tell you how gay you really are!

Tom Hanks did an amazing job in Philadelphia. It wasn't as brave as being an out gay man, but it was still brave for him to take that role and perform it so well. We seem to forget that 98% or the world is straight and that the support and protection that we have from any of them could easily go away. He was being an example for other straight men. He showed his straight fans that anyone could hypothetically be gay. He and many other straight men in Hollywood and DC have helped our movement as great allies.

The problem with this is, as any actor with training will tell you, you can’t play gay. How do you play “gay”? Limp wrist, lisp and swish? I wish creative people would stop this nonsense.

Did Colin Firth play "gay"? Or was he just an actor playing a man who happened to be gay?

Gay is not a performance.

[quote]No won should have a “right” to play any role.

Oh, dear!

[quote] the deaf community was pissed when the movie Voices was made because Amy Irving played a deaf character and there were boycotts against the movie.

I wonder how they heard about the boycott.

As so many have said, this kind of thinking won't help anyone. If you're an actor you should be able to play any roll. Reserving straight rolls for straight people, gay rolls for gay people - it's ridiculous and his idiotic virtue signalling is annoying.

Ton Hanks is a virtue signaling fraud. Marsha P Johnson needed the work but did Tom care?

r123 You're an idiot

[quote]gay rolls for gay people -

I always called these baguettes.

R58 what theaters? and how would YOU know?

This whole "only gay actors should play gay characters" is rubbish. To me it's far more important that gay stories get told and we're represented regardless of who plays the roles. I know it may be shocking to some but actors are not the characters they play. Putting aside the homophobia in Hollywood that still scares a lot of gay actors into remaining closeted, the reason why straight actors are cast in gay roles is because investors and studios want names in lead roles to be better the odds that their investment will turn a healthy profit. Most so-called "A-list" actors are straight (or at least publicly identify as straight). By saying only gay actors can play gay roles, does that not exclude gay actors from playing straight?

R127 Boys In The Band. I was there after one performance and their are many fan photos.

OP was Tom Hanks a top or bottom in Philadelphia? I was never certain

so, you're a middle age frau fan R58 @ R129 ?

Ah no - but I saw a lot of them outside the theater. Why do you care? The point is an openly gay actor still has female fans, right?

Why did Tom Hanks take the lead role in Sully when he wasn't a pilot?

John Travolta can fly a plane. Why didn't Tom turn it down and recommend him?

I guess Tom doesn't quite understand what 'acting' is.

Dakota Johnson is getting dragged too for playing a blind and paralyzed woman. That role could have gone to a blind and paraplegic actress since they don’t get very many roles or opportunities.

Dakota Johnson has an upcoming movie where she played a woman who comes out as a lesbian in her 30s. Tig Notaro and her wife directed that movie. Dakota will probably get dragged for that. Knowing how some people are today, the dragging will probably extend Tig and her wife and possibly casting directors for not getting a lesbian actress to play the role.

[R18] His EX Luke MacFarlane played many straight roles and maybe that's why they broke up lol

Pandering. I'm waiting for his line of scrumptious candy bars.

[quote]and their are many fan photos.

Oh, DEAR!

R68 its called acting

I really liked this article and Gauiter's statements.

Does he support his idiot son acting like a black guy from the Caribbean?

[quote] I don’t think people will accept the falsity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.

It's a fair point. Just as I never could accept the falsity of Tom playing a courageous US Army ranger

R141 Jamaican people seemed to like and laugh at it. Calm down.

r143 that's not the point.

What's the point, R144?

The point is that he says straight actors shouldn't play gay characters yet his lily white son thinks he's a black Jamaican and apparently hasn't called that out as inappropriate.

The problem is you can't say this kind of stuff without the chance of it being turned around on you. If only gay actors can play gay roles, then can they not play straight ones?

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Being gay has nothing to do with appearance, it has to do with the sex of the person you appear to be attracted to on screen. So it's more about behaviour and only in the context of attraction. Everything else is the same. So anyone can do it.

I think it sucks that there are many very talented openly gay actors out there who cannot get work, partly because they are gay, and more importantly because they aren't already famous. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. There aren't enough box office draw gay actors because of the legacy of the Hollywood closet.

That's the main issue here.

It would be great if we lived in a world where there was equal opportunity, but we aren't there. We've come a long way, and maybe we will get there one day. But for now, this is still an issue. Kind of annoyed by the Whataboutism on this thread.

Any bets on when a white actor will be "permitted" to play a nonwhite role?