Stanley Tucci Argu Straight Actors Can Play Gay Characters – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• STANLEY TUCCI ON PLAYG GAY SCE 1996. AND HOW SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY THK HE’S GAY.
• IS STANLEY TUCCI GAY? HIS PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS FORCED HIS FANS TO QUTN ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!
• STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• STANLEY TUCCI ARGU STRAIGHT ACTORS CAN PLAY GAY CHARACTERS IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

STANLEY TUCCI ON PLAYG GAY SCE 1996. AND HOW SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY THK HE’S GAY.

Asi om starrg as the queer send--mand next to those gay ins “The Devil Wear Prada” and “Burlque, ” the 60-year-old actor also donned a poofy wig “Ltle Chaos” as the kg’s gay brother. The chameleonic actor is at yet aga wh his latt gay role — Tker “Supernova, ” a movg portra of a uple crisis wrten and directed by Harry Macqueen. Durg a recent ll, Tucci talked about beg a straight man who’s been playg gay sce 1996, his wife fdg out that the ter thks he’s gay, and how he n’t believe so many people actually tell him they love “Burlque.

Durg the panmic, I watched “The Daytrippers, ” which me out 1996, and realized that you’ve been playg gay even longer than I thought. That was my first gay kiss. When to the way the film treated homosexualy, how do you pare a role like that, as Louis, to your role as Tker “Supernova”?

What I loved about “Daytrippers” was that there was no judgment on the part of anyone and the fact that this character was gay. I remember the days of a straight actor playg a gay man and how there was talk of how “brave” that was. What was the nversatn around you playg gay 1996 vers now?

IS STANLEY TUCCI GAY? HIS PORTRAYAL OF GAY CHARACTERS FORCED HIS FANS TO QUTN ABOUT HIS SEXUALY!

How have you gotten away wh playg gay all the years when so many straight actors have not? Somebody said recently — was wrten a magaze or somethg: Col and I are the only two straight men who, as far as they’re ncerned, are allowed to play gay men, nobody else.

STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

I’ve been tellg my iends that I thk you’re able to get away wh playg gay bee people thk that you are gay.

There was a time when there were a lot of people out there who thought I was gay. And if I’m prented wh somethg, whether ’s a gay character or a straight character or whatever character, if don’t rg te to me, then I really n’t do . I’m cur about this time your life when people thought you were gay.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

I don’t remember anyone g up to me and sayg, “You’re gay, aren’t you? But was que a while after “The Devil Wears Prada, ” and I remember when I was datg Felicy (Blunt), my wife, she’d punch my name on the ter and the first thg that would e up was “Stanley Tucci Gay.

For you, is there apprehensn or a different kd of thought procs when nsirg playg a gay role, and how has that changed for you over the years? And if there are people who are gay who are more right for , then they should be dog .

Now, I thk that the problem here is that one of the reasons that gay actors have not played gay rol is that a lot of gay actors weren’t able to e out and be openly gay for so long, not jt society but Hollywood.

STANLEY TUCCI ARGU STRAIGHT ACTORS CAN PLAY GAY CHARACTERS IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

So you uldn’t be an openly gay actor bee you would only be st as a gay person, if you were lucky enough to be st at all, and bee you might be ostracized bee you’re openly gay. Now that that’s begng to change, there n be more of a level playg field and gay characters and actrs n be openly gay and play straight rol, play gay rol, play whatever rol. What other gay ins would you happily ll your boss?

And I thk workg wh Cher — I know she’s a gay in and I had the biggt csh on her as a kid, and to be able to meet her and work wh her and bee iendly wh her is jt … you know, sometim I show my kids my phone and I go, “I’m jt textg Cher. It’s lived on the gay muny, though. I n’t tell you how many people e up to me, and not only people om the gay muny.