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"Straight people playing gay might well do their research and watch Ru Paul's Drag Race, but they just can’t access the same depth of knowledge." "Our entire lives are sometimes premeditated on playing a straight person," he tells me.
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As a straight person, there's so much you might miss, which years of research won't ever prepare you for." Gay people grow up learning how to assume straight characteristics, says Nick, as for them, code-switching is often a means of survival. Photo: dvsross / CC By 2.0Īctor Nick Westrate agrees: "There's such a wealth of behavior, cultural history, and experiences that, as a queer person, you just know. A lot of the time, Hollywood makes these stories about queer, trans, and minority folks and they get it wrong: there's offensive material, tragic storylines, one-dimensional, stereotypical characters with little depth." (See 2015 flop Stonewall for evidence.) To Peppermint, it's firstly a question of authenticity, not just in who gets to play a queer part, but how that part is written, developed, presented, and performed: "We need to recognize that art plays a role in how marginalized people are treated and viewed by society. Hollywood has a terrible history of creating movies and making money off the experiences of marginalized people, without letting them have any input in the process."
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"I do really think, ideally, anyone should be able to play a perfect part for them," Peppermint continues, "but right now, gay, trans, and queer people need to participate in the telling of their own stories. Polling from YouGov this week confirms that many share this view, with 70 percent of the British public seeing no issue with a straight person taking the first leading gay role in a Disney blockbuster. Acting, by definition, is about transforming into a character it's not about who you actually are. There's often outrage from queer folk when such announcements are made, but to outsiders, the reason for the upset is not always so obvious. In The Danish Girl, Eddie Redmayne played the lead, a trans woman.
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Nearly all the lead gay characters in 2008 movie Milk-a biopic of legendary gay rights activist Harvey Milk-were played by straight men. The little I read and a long time ago (you know, if you read the magazines for the articles, too) mentioned that female actors were paid substantially more than males in straight porn because there was no shortage of males willing to perform.It's not the first time such a decision has been made by Hollywood: Just last month it was reported that Scarlett Johansson was set to star in the upcoming film Rub & Tug, playing a trans man (she later dropped out of the project). I’m assuming too (since I know nothing about the industry) that a male could not really be type-cast as there are probably not a lot of male straight porn watchers who see enough gay porn also to decide “hey wait a minute, that guy was gay last time I saw him…” But then, maybe there are. And as mentioned - endurance is a useful attribute. If they can make additional money working both sides of the fence, so to speak (I was going to say “both sides of the street,”, but…) then perhaps some have a preference or reluctance, but I wonder how many stand on principle? Plus, I’m not conversant with the size distribution in real versus movies, but I gather than having extraordinary endowment would also make an actor in high demand going either way. I’m going to guess, based solely on what I read about the sordid life of young gay male prostitutes that many do it because it’s a living, and actual orientation does not figure into it as long as they can make a living, so whatever category they get started in pays the bills.