Here we go again (sigh)
Dec. 10th, 2008 04:42 pmThe Sarah Connor Chronicles review will have to wait a little, due to rl Christmas mail related business (yes, still) and being on the move again, but:
Washington Post article about the irritating (not to mention homophobic) notion that "a gay kissing scene must be the worst Hollywood job hazard that a male actor could face, including stunt work, extreme weather or sitting through five hours of special-effects makeup every day". Good for James Franco for refusing to play along, boo, hiss on Letterman, and on Chris Potter (one more reason not to watch the American Queer as Folk - I can't imagine any of the actors involved in the English original saying something as spectacularly dumb as what Potter is quoted saying in that article.
(My favourite reply to the whole "isn't it a trial to play a gay character?" rigmarole still comes from Patrick Stewart, who was asked this when playing a gay supporting character in Jeffrey, a film he shot soon after TNG had ended, and basically went "are you serious?" on the reporter, saying he had played two men so jealous they kill their wives (or try to, one case), Leontes and Othello, and one man who wants to cut out another man's heart (Shylock), and how is it that playing a nice interior decorator is supposed to be a stretch?)
Washington Post article about the irritating (not to mention homophobic) notion that "a gay kissing scene must be the worst Hollywood job hazard that a male actor could face, including stunt work, extreme weather or sitting through five hours of special-effects makeup every day". Good for James Franco for refusing to play along, boo, hiss on Letterman, and on Chris Potter (one more reason not to watch the American Queer as Folk - I can't imagine any of the actors involved in the English original saying something as spectacularly dumb as what Potter is quoted saying in that article.
(My favourite reply to the whole "isn't it a trial to play a gay character?" rigmarole still comes from Patrick Stewart, who was asked this when playing a gay supporting character in Jeffrey, a film he shot soon after TNG had ended, and basically went "are you serious?" on the reporter, saying he had played two men so jealous they kill their wives (or try to, one case), Leontes and Othello, and one man who wants to cut out another man's heart (Shylock), and how is it that playing a nice interior decorator is supposed to be a stretch?)