Gay actors who played straight roles
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That's where we should be aiming."
8. Hugo Weaving, who played Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra, a gay man and drag queen in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," told Stellar, "The nonsense surrounding [the casting of three straight men as two gay men and a trans woman] was extraordinary. I just hope they are the best actor.
It has made for very, very compelling and interesting people."
9. In 2010, he made a guest appearance on $#@! And I'll treasure those days."
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He later added, "The whole time, I was thinking about the friends of mine, young friends of mine whose families don't know that they're out, friends of mine who have distant relationships with their families, because of their sexuality and really hope that many people would realize that however hard it is to address or confront those things, their acceptance is everything."
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I'm not going to lie, it took me a while to register that the actress playing the part was even Portia De Rossi to begin with. We're beyond that now, and I don't think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy. Knight is best known for playing George O'Malley, but he has also been a fixture on Broadway for a really long time.
I think some of you missed the point of the show."
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On theReign with Josh Smith podcast, he said, "In regards to my tweets, I just think that there's a danger with things on social media. Most notably, he played Owen Shaw in the sixth instalment of The Fast and the Furious, who's both a villain and Michelle Rodriguez's love interest.
Quinto came out in 2011, saying "that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality." He dated Jonathan Groff, another man who made this list, for a while, and is currently dating model and painter Miles McMillan.
He's played parts like Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Bard the Bowman, and Dracula in Dracula Untold, all of whom are straight characters. We've done that, we're tired of that, we don't need that anymore."