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richard chamberlain afghanis for the thorn birds and kildare
doctor kildare
i he uses mister killed ect
he just came out
uh... and it and you're going to be with the advocate and he was talking about
days in the movie business right and he sense that it is not a good idea
four days to come out especially if they're looking for a leading role
now richard chamberlain
came out as a gay actor
uh... years ago but the way back uh... years ago but long after his career as a mainstream
leading man was over right yeah
so and he says look it's a bad idea and i want a region is exact willfully advocate
he says there's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture it's regrettable
it's stupid it's heartless
annexing moral but it is but there
it is and
for an actor to be working is kind of a miracle because most actors aren't
so it's just silly for working actors say al i don't have anybody knows i'm gay especially
if you're leading men personally i wouldn't advise again leading man type actor to come
out despite all the wonderful advances
that'd been made
it it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture
yeah uh...
bodies right
it's weird and this sort of uh... you know in this town and this business that read only
accepts
sexuality in uh... but not they don't perceive it
palatable
to the arts
i mean believe me the that you're going to have a tough time v studio executives are
day actors producers directors always abit
at least covered up
obviously you know we had significantly you we had significant leading men who were date
was covered up for of long long time uh... some about whom there some big
uh... stars all it was called me
who they're still debate about but it looks like saw a lot of these guys were
uh... workday but
now you would think it would be different i'll tell you one thing can be different especially
in the movie print business because
what do republicans always say about hollywood a left with uh... you know left-wing hollywood
bills liberals
headquartered at lifestyles knighted somebody that's even what they're sort of hinting at
that there's just a decade right exactly and you know it is actually true
excuse me
that's what i was thinking so at it's it was really hard for me to believe that this homophobia
still exists in hollywood
but you know it really does i don't remember what doctor wise but somebody came out and
talked about the homophobia and the music business
in the movie business as well
pointed out brokeback mountain
okay and how brought back mountain had two straight actors
acting as if they get right why don't they have to day actors
not acting like they were dead
well the first of all having to get actors not acting like they were day has happened
so many movies that we can imagine right of course we just don't know that
uh...
adequate at work dot we have no i i literally have no idea
uh... because but we know that
you know part of the rumors that have existed about some very popular
mainstream stars
who sue as soon as anyone talks about it
um...
is the perception that if that did come out
it would really hurt their careers
i have no i don't know whether that's true but the idea is that it has to be covered
up
uh... i spell but i mean we brought back balconies and it makes sense to me though i mean you
hire the betting that once you tired they're actors
and another that sense it's great that we had
it's a bit of a breakthrough for two straight actors too
play gay character plot give doug marlon brando plague a character
uh... but
in a movie like that serve this big important movie to have to yang
stars
whose career still needed mold
you know we didn't have a firm opinion about either of those guys that we knew they were
california fletcher jake gyllenhaal
but it's not like your screen image was set
in stone at that point there and some risk
i'd taken those rules
rupert everett
who is like the only openly gay leading man except he's not not leading managing
and he in fact says that his decision to come out was regrettable he said back in two thousand
nine
fact is you could not be still cannot be a twenty five-year-old homosexual try to make
it in the british film business or american so busy with the italian film business it
just doesn't work hitting a brick wall at some point you're going to manage to make
it roll for certain amount of time
for the first time tell your belt cut you write off that's what happened there
when uh... uh...
he was it
great
my mom story
after all it before but it's good contests where they got it's true
almost verbatim
uh... group rivers and my best friends wedding on august like anybody but she sees my best
friends wedding and she likes
which is about my wonderful movie would you would roberts often just a lot of did my best
friends wedding
and her uh... leading school
handsome in when homosexual brandy was so good
well
and funny you mention he's getting himself stuck
among gets angry days for qty the workday
usurping the working she said
uh... so she says uh... we need to say that he's every day or so i suppose because he
can't be a talented actor it he plays a gay person he has to be yet
abruptly
he's gay
he's openly gay he's like the only gayo openly gay leading man in hollywood well understand
d_d_i_ i don't believe that you think everyone skit
no bombing suspect yet because he says
i'd get it
uh... and that she says well squared uh... i suppose that i love the birdcage and the
next thing you're gonna tell me is that nathan lane escaped
nathan lane is gay
though i think there is no word
she's she doesn't have any idea i'd left my apartment i do
so i think it's still relevant that he still he can't do it which is weird and subsets
but i mean an adjective
if james franko turned out to be
a lot of time literally afraid to mention the guy who everyone talks about my he's going
to be done through
but it just break a return at the beginning
uh... i think it would be effect the party
i think that's crazy because you are you sorry proven himself isaac obliquely cut after greater
right dance you know
you can make change franko the romantic
lead in a movie if you know he's gay it's just like you know it's interesting because
it's just like that new york times review remember which movie it was
it wasn't even of a movie it was of a broadway show
where at the main actor was gay and he was playing the role of the straight guy
and uh... the reviewer from the new york times it was from but i think it was time night
ullens time magazine at fire dot patterns time magazine
and the review missing
it's not believable you know openly gay actor pretending to be straight
no but
he's an actor what happened
all of you straight actors like you've ledger who can fasten brought back mountain
by playing a gay character it's a little league is the military when the uh... when there
was the complaints and uh... monks of reporters among the fox reporters and the reporters
for the conservative west say were askin barney frank
about the uh...
about child about these struck a soldier's showering was straight soldiers
did
it's been happening since we started out respect their shattered right now have a story god
okay
uh... soviet immediate scrapie the notion that i got to go a lot of crap
that uh... and of course uh... at industry also on broadway
sometimes they actors play straight roles because some of the actors on broadway
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