'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

Contents:

• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'
• DENNIS QUAID.S TROUBLOME GAY LOVE SCENE
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DEFENDS DECISN TO PLAY GAY CHARACTER: 'I FEEL SENSIVE' ABOUT 'DIVERSY'

"Ranchlands" is an LGBTQ drama about an urbane, yet lost gay man who returns to his tranged Christian fay to re for his ailg brother - and fds romance wh a queer ranch hand. Cumberbatch is already gettg Osr buzz for his role the upg wtern as a gay Montana ttle rancher the 1920s.

But not everyone is keen on straight actors playg gay rol, and this is somethg Cumberbatch was aware of when he took the role, and he talked to IndieWire about why he ultimately cid the role was for him. While is important to provi real-life queer people wh jobs the dtry and nothg go as far as thenticy, there shouldn't be a mand for actors to publicly state their sexualy before they accept actg bate over whether straight actors should play gay has been ragg pecially hard over the last year or so.

DENNIS QUAID.S TROUBLOME GAY LOVE SCENE

"I'm not beg woke about this, but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an emy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat, " he told the Rad Tim, "They are not there to 'act gay' bee 'actg gay' is a bunch of s o a performance.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

"Everyone om Neil Patrick Harris, to Jim Parsons, to Ben Platt has weighed on the issue, wh some sayg they're favor of straight actors playg gay, but many sayg they'd like to see that trend e to an isn't Cumberbatch's first time playg gay a big movie. In 2014, he played gay puter geni Alan Turg The Imatn Game, and was nomated for an Amy Award, a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Goln Globe for the role.