Glee star Chris Colfer doesn’t even seem to want to be pidgeonholed as an actor – he’s also written and produced the movie Struck By Lightning and had a book he authored on the New York Times Bestseller List – and he isn’t keen on being typecast as gay either.
He’s recently been talking about that and the presumptions made about him because of his sexuality. Indeed, he feels others have made a bigger deal about him being gay than he has.
He says, “I’ve never made it a big deal, it’s everyone else that’s always made it a big deal. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to be something that I’m not. I think people do that for you.
“People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me before they even saw me in anything else. I never understood that – why don’t you wait until my next project before you start telling what my career is going to look like for the next ten years.”
He’s certainly trying to defy expectations by becoming a multi-hyphenate, although we’ll have to wait and see whether he is typecast as gay in his acting career after he ends his stint on Glee.
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