Current Events > so apparently darren criss doesnt want to play gay characters anymore

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he got famous for playing homosexuals like blaine anderson on glee
or his new show which i forget the name of.

but he just said he was done playing gay characters because he doesnt want to take a role away from gay actors.

and i just gotta say i hate this attitude right now that straight men shouldnt play gay roles
its called acting. straight actors can play gay and gay actors can play straight
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yusiko posted...

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.

maybe he doesn't want to get type-casted; it's a relatively common thing for actors/actresses to avoid
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Skye Reynolds posted...

yusiko posted...

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.

Quality post.
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So can Scarlett Johansen play an asian person or not
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i honestly thought he was gay and then wondered why he's not playing gay characters any more

i've only seen him in american crime story and glee which he played gay characters
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