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• MICHAEL CAE ON GAY ROL: "IT WAS A B DICEY TO DO"
• MICHAEL CAE WAS ‘WARNED AGAST’ TAKG GAY ROL THE 1970S
• MICHAEL CAE WAS TOLD TAKG GAY ROL WOULD BE A ‘REER KILLER’
• IS MICHAEL CAE GAY?
• MICHAEL CAE SAYS HE WAS ADVISED AGAST PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• MICHAEL CAE: ‘MY FATHER THOUGHT I WAS GAY’
• MICHAEL CAE WAS ‘WARNED AGAST’ TAKG GAY ROL THE 1970S

MICHAEL CAE ON GAY ROL: "IT WAS A B DICEY TO DO"

"It was a b dicey to do, " says 85-year old screen legend Michael Cae as he rells playg gay men the films California Sue and Deathtrap. In an terview wh Rollg Stone, the veteran London actor relled how people clared that  might kill his reer to play gay characters - "and what are the girls gog to thk of you?

People will thk you’re gay. The actor had que a few gay iends so he studied them and their movements and speech for his rol the above-mentned films.

We got a note back om Hollywood sayg, ‘Leadg man looks gay — wears glass, oks and shops groceri.

MICHAEL CAE WAS ‘WARNED AGAST’ TAKG GAY ROL THE 1970S

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Cae acted  California Sue and Deathtrap, two films which he portrayed gay characters. He explaed that he never had a problem playg a gay character, spe the stigma at the time. Many of my iends were gay, so I’d studied them and their movements and speech, so I basilly knew what I was dog.

You were one of the first major actors to play gay rol,  movi like California Sue and Deathtrap. Michael Cae has revealed he ignored warngs that playg gay characters might kill his reer.

The former heartthrob, bt known for films like Alfie and The Italian Job, took on two major gay rol at a time when homosexualy on screen was still a big taboo. Cae played a gay antique aler Sidney Cochran 1978 edy California Sue, and and playwright Sidney Bhl 1982 thriller Deathtrap, which he locked lips wh Superman star Christopher Reeve. Michael Cae was warned gay rol uld be a ‘reer killer’.

MICHAEL CAE WAS TOLD TAKG GAY ROL WOULD BE A ‘REER KILLER’

But Michael Cae was still beg warned that people would thk he was gay if he took on a role of a different sexualy the late seventi. Christopher Reeve and Michael Cae shared their first on-screen kiss 1982 film Deathtrap (Photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Imag)And so he refed to heed the advice and beme one of the first well-known actors to take on a gay role  1978 edy California Sue, and aga 1982 thriller Deathtrap. He played a bad boy love tert the 1999 film "10 Thgs I Hate About You, " and he played a charmg gay wboy 2005's "Brokeback Mounta.

IS MICHAEL CAE GAY?

The latter particular was treated as a strike agast him by a lot of ic book fans, as the film's queer storyle ma the subject of a lot of mockery and homophobic parodi mastream media. Is Michael Cae Gay?

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Michael Cae is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this.

MICHAEL CAE SAYS HE WAS ADVISED AGAST PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Michael Cae is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg. Although Michael Cae has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other.

MICHAEL CAE: ‘MY FATHER THOUGHT I WAS GAY’

People will thk you're gay. He add that the two were so fltered over performg the kiss they uldn't remember their l: ‘Many of my iends were gay, so I'd studied them and their movements and speech, so I basilly knew what I was dog.

Sir Michael Cae has shared that earlier his reer he was advised to turn down rol where he played a gay character.

MICHAEL CAE WAS ‘WARNED AGAST’ TAKG GAY ROL THE 1970S

While out promotg the new film, Cae told Rollg Stone that he was advised to turn down rol the film Deathtrap and California Sue bee the character he was portrayg was gay.