How Playing Gay Went From Career Killer to A-List Generator

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-01 20:38:46 | Updated at 2024-11-01 22:38:53 2 hours ago

How Playing Gay Went From Career Killer to A-List Generator
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Posted on 11/01/2024 1:20:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In 2009, Rupert Everett famously told The Observer that any actor planning to come out of the closet should promptly go back in. “It's not that advisable to be honest,” he said of his sexuality being public, “It's not very easy. And, honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out."

How would Everett feel now, then, when the pipeline for becoming a leading man in 2024 inevitably involves playing gay. In fact, it’s almost conditional on it. Bonus points if you’re in a Luca Guadagnino movie, or land a coveted Loewe ambassadorship to boot.

Timothée Chalamet, Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Mike Faist, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicholas Galitzine, Kit Connor, need I name more? Sure, there are exceptions to the rule – your Theo James types, Glen Powell, your Harris Dickinsons – but it’s undeniable at this point that a queer role can act as a very real springboard for fame. It’s becoming true of actresses, too. Take the cast of Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott’s Bottoms, or Margaret Qualley kicking off her massive 2024 with lesbian crime comedy Drive Away Dolls, or Nicola Coughlan’s breakout role being Claire the wee lesbian in Derry Girls.

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1 posted on 11/01/2024 1:20:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

2 posted on 11/01/2024 1:20:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

To: nickcarraway

Faggotry is disgusting. The only folks who celebrate it are fags, cat ladies ( fag hags), and satanists.

3 posted on 11/01/2024 1:22:18 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)

To: nickcarraway

Tell that to a local trans (female to male no surgery) despite an engineering degree she remains unemployed after a layoff.

4 posted on 11/01/2024 1:27:46 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)

To: nickcarraway

I don't recognize a single one of those names. Then, I am not part of the target demographic.

5 posted on 11/01/2024 1:28:44 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))

To: nickcarraway

I must be culturally deprived… I didn’t recognize the name of a single actor or movie (with the exception of ‘Derry Girls’ for which I must have seen a promotion) mentioned in the above.

6 posted on 11/01/2024 1:28:46 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)

To: nickcarraway

Timothée Chalamet, Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan, Mike Faist, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicholas Galitzine, Kit Connor, need I name more?

Please do. I don't recognize a single name here. Nor do I want to.

To: nickcarraway

I am pleased that I do not recognize a single name in the story. Not the writer, not the person being quoted, not the actors or actresses. Not a single one.

8 posted on 11/01/2024 1:32:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)

To: Dr. Sivana

I only know Timothee, because he’s playing Paul in the Dune movies.

9 posted on 11/01/2024 1:34:21 PM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)

To: nickcarraway

Wonder why hollywood is a broke ghost town?

10 posted on 11/01/2024 1:35:42 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)

To: nickcarraway

Hollywood makes no attempt to be “inclusive” when it comes to age. Their actors and their movie plots appeal to 20-year-old woke losers. All other demographic groups can, apparently, go to hell.

11 posted on 11/01/2024 1:35:49 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: House Atreides

I think you are culturally deprived because you are not culturally depraved.

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