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Should straight men be allowed to play roles of queer characters?
As always when a new bl series begins trending the topic whether it's fair or not for straight men to get the roles of gay characters gets brought up. Given now that heated rivalry has been out people have been attacking the actors with claims of "Queer baiting" and that an openly gay man should've gotten the role rather than the current actors.
I don’t think we should be knowing the sexualities of actors at all, it’s none of our business. If they want to share it they can, but they shouldn’t feel pressure to. But it does make me really uncomfortable when directors replace a minority character with someone from a majority. So idk. But yeah if they can play the role, let them play th...... reply
Honestly, I never understood this discourse. When my favourite webtoon/novel gets adapted the only thing I beg for is please don't hire wooden stiff actor and for the writers to not butcher the storyline. I don't care about their visual even. So, if the actors respect the project, are inline with the character portrayal, and ofcourse can ACT(bare m...... reply
I mean, the director decides who is suitable for a role, or the actor decides whether to accept it. And yes, there are a lot of straight people who play queer roles, but they wanted to play the role and they wanted to represent something and I think they do it well sometimes. reply
Yes as well as gay actors can play straight roles (Neil Patrick Harris was legen wait for it) the thing is they should investigate and behave respecfully towards queer people reply
Though I am highly against letting straight men out of their cages in the basement I believe talent should determine who gets the role not sexuality, and when it comes to the issue of representation let the character do the representing not the actor their job is to bring the character to life and nothing else a good actor (regardless of sexuality)...... reply
Imagine that to play a role we will force people to come out. "What do you mean you do not want to come out? Role goes to someone else just because they were open about their sexuality..." or it can work both ways "you are gay! You cant possibly pretend that you like the opposite gender!" I believe that there are way more gay actors in hollywood th...... reply
Yes, they should be allowed. However, it should end there. Acting gay on stream or on the street to bait you fans is wild. Don't get surprised when you get shit for it. I'm so tired of people ignoring the big issue here and latching onto stuff that doesn't make sense. Of course, straight men acting as gay characters in a TV show is fine; the issue...... reply
