That's so gay!!!

Apparently all of our actors need to be straight these days. That's the only way they're ever going to be convincing. Not sure exactly how I feel about the recent Newsweek article about how gay actors cannot play straight, but straight actors can play gay. I see what the author is trying to say, he just goes about it in the wrong way. Like he's making personal attacks against certain gay actors. Frankly, if an actor is good, then we can see him in whatever roll he plays. Gay playing straight, straight playing gay. I love me some NPH on "How I Met Your Mother" and sometimes I do think about him being gay, but he plays the character well so the whole "gay thing" just goes out the window. I seem to also be bringing Rosie O'Donnell to mind. Classically lez. But I think about some of the rolls that she played back before "the general public" realized that she was gay. She played a straighty in "Sleepless in Seattle" but it wasn't a big deal because it was a small part. But it didn't matter that she was gay because, really, in the way she's played some of her characters, you just see an "everywoman" in her. I could see Rosie playing me in the story of my life. Because it's just about people playing people experiencing life. Sean Hayes being criticized for playing straight really isn't about him being gay. It's about casting the wrong actor for the part. Maybe not. I haven't seen his most recent work. Recently watched "The Bucket List" and Sean Hayes was in that. His character wasn't identified as having any sexuality at all, but I would have been able to see it either way. He was just funny and that's really all that matters in the end.

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