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‘Should cis-het actors play LGBTQ+ roles?’ remains a complicated question this awards season
Four voices from the LGBTQ+ community offer their take on the much-debated topic.
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The Umbrella Academy renewed for a fourth and final season
"Family meeting, Brellies: We're going on a fourth and final adventure."
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Another Sex Education actor has revealed they won’t be returning for season four
"I'm not part of the new series. I can't really talk about why," the actor revealed.
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Andrew Garfield: Straight actors playing gay characters is about ’empathic imagination’
"I think it’s two different conversations getting conflated," Andrew Garfield told The Telegraph recently.
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Sir Ian McKellen says straight actors should be able to play gay roles
The British acting legend also says he regrets not coming out to his late father.
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Tom Prior on LGBTQ representation: ‘Do you feel you can truthfully represent this experience?’
"If there’s something which I can relate to and I believe I can represent truthfully, then I think all I can do is my best and hope that people believe me."
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Jake Gyllenhaal says Brokeback Mountain helped break ‘stigma’ of straight actors playing LGBTQ roles
The star adds: "People of all different experiences should be playing more roles."
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Billy Eichner’s gay romcom ‘Bros’ to feature all-LGBTQ cast – including Drag Race’s Symone
AHS actor BIlly, who is gay, is writing, producing, and starring in the film
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‘Tropic Thunder’ star Brandon T Jackson says God punished him for playing a gay character
The actor played gay character Alpa Chino in the satirical comedy
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Andy Serkis: ‘As an actor, you should have the ability to play anything’
The actor has said he disagrees with straight actors not being able to play LGBT roles
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Kit Harington says there’s a big problem with masculinity and homosexuality in Hollywood
The 'Game of Thrones' star slammed the comic book movies who have yet to cast an openly gay as a superhero
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Hilary Swank says people shouldn’t be pigeonholed because of their gender or sexuality
The actress won an Academy Award for her role as murdered trans man Brandon Teena
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Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench’s documentary ‘Tea with the Dames’ DVD release
The new documentary will see the acting legends spill the beans on their careers, marriages and lives
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Watch: Two new trailers for the upcoming ‘Charmed’ reboot
The show is a reboot of the hit 90s TV show which ran from 1998 to 2006