but he just said he was done playing gay characters because he doesnt want to take a role away from gay actors.
While I respect this, one of the key fundamentals of acting is being something that you're not. I think it's kinda silly that we're getting to a point where only a bird can play a bird and only a fish can play a fish.
I understand something like wanting people with disabilities to play characters with disabilities. You can't play a character who can walk if you use a mobility chair and you can't very well portray a hearing character if you're deaf. So if a non-disabled person plays that role, they're further limiting the roles available to those actors.
But a person of one orientation portraying a character of another orientation should be no different from an actor portraying a member of another religion or another nationality. If he's typecast and he wants out (which is probably the case), or he feels that his typecasting presents an unfavorable representation, I'm for the decision. But if we've gotten to the point that you can't be someone of another orientation, we might as well stop calling performers "actors" since it's not really acting if you can never be somebody else.
