Gay actors that play straight characters

Sara Gilbert is a lesbian and played Darlene Connor (Roseanne) and Leslie Winkle (The Big Bang Theory), both straight.

Adam Pally did this on Joyful ENDINGS, where the gag was that Max is the archetypal frat guy – kind of a slob, a little on the heavy side, loves watching sports and drinking beers, and so on – if you swap out ‘sleeping with chicks’ for ‘sleeping with dudes’.

It doesn’t make much meaning to me to want to list gay actors playing straight characters in popular TV and movies. Is there a free gay actor that hasn’t played straight characters after finally making it enormous enough to be in popular shows or movies?

I would guess if so that only actors who recently made it in the business fit the bill. Gay characters just weren’t common enough until recently for gay actors not to play unbent characters, plus it would severely limit their decision of roles even today.

Edit: I guess my indicate is, name a male lover actor and he or she has surely played a straight character.

It doesn’t make much sens

It's been an ~interesting~ journey for queer people in the movie and television industry. Once upon a time, gay and queer woman actors, specifically, had to stay in the closet, and there were next-to-no gay parts on screen.

The idea that openly lgbtq+ actors can play het characters is a relatively new phenomenon. Previously, out gay actors could only really work when roles for them a) existed, and b) weren't creature given to heterosexual actors.

Now it seems much more acceptable for an openly gay actor play a straight character. In truth, here are 18 times an actor has played a straight character on screen, despite being openly gay or queer in real life...

4.Andrew Scott as The Priest in Fleabag

5.Amandla Stenberg as Ruby Daly in The Darkest Minds

6.Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in Bridgerton

7.B.D. Wong as Wally Lin in Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

8.Portia de Rossi as Lindsay Bluth Funke in Arrested Development

9.Ben Platt as Evan Hansen in the Dear Evan Hansen movie

10.Justice Smith as Simon Aumar in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

11.Luke Evans as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast

12.Ben Whishaw as Michael Banks in

Let’s Settle This: Can Unbent Actors Play Gay Roles?

No way. Well, maybe? Sometimes. Okay — yes. Of course! We’re all human beings at the finish of the day … and sexuality is on a spectrum, right? Acting is acting!

This whirlwind of contradictory answers flutters through my uncharacteristically conflicted thinker every time I seek to answer this interrogate. It’s a debate we’ve seen time and hour again, most recently when many high-profile names leapt to the defence of Jack Whitehall being cast as Disney’s first openly gay character. So I’m by no means the first person to communicate on this seemingly unsolvable debate, but with the recent release of Supernova — Hollywood’s latest queer film starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci — I’m throwing my coin into the hat for good measure.

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Gaslighting queer folk

Netflix’s Disclosure (well worth a watch) beautifully highlighted the importance of casting transitioned actors in trans roles — or should I say, the harm of casting cisgender actors in trans roles. But the casting of gay roles remains more of a grey area than you realise. As an performer and a gay gentleman, I find myself caught in the middle of this debate, straddling both sides of

It’s very common to view straight actors playing Diverse characters; however, it is very rare to watch a gay actor playing a straight character. This is a discussion that has been revolving around Hollywood for quite a few years now.

Many direct actors have played queer roles and vice versa, and as time passes, it seems like the practice is becoming normal. Even though the list may not be very long, but there are some famous gay actors who played straight characters and nailed them. Let’s have a look at these stars.

Luke Evans

Luke Evans is an openly homosexual actor, and he has played several straight characters. Most of you might know him from his famous role in Disney‘s live-action movie “Beauty and the Beast”, in which he played the role of Gaston, the narcissistic chauvinist. Another prominent unbent role that Evans played was of Owen Shaw, the boyfriend of Michelle Rodriguez, in “Fast & Furious”.

In an interview with Attitude Men, while talking about playing straight characters, Evans said, “You can be happy with yourself, and you can also be whoever you wish. You can have any career you want, and nothi

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