There is a still a fear in Hollywood of getting typecast for playing gay, and that if you take more than one or two gay roles, you’ll be in a career cul-de-sac. It’s the same fear that stops a lot of famous folk from coming out – that suddenly you won’t be cast as straight characters (which of course is most roles).
However, Michael Urie has been playing gay roles on screen since WTC View in 2005, before becoming far more famous as a scheming gay assistant in Ugly Betty. During the run of that show he also came out publicly. Since then he’s played several other gay roles, both on stage and screen, including in thre TV show Partners and the indie movie Such Good People.
However, talking to Metro Source, he’s suggested that people have been telling him since he first became an actor, he shouldn’t have played gay or come out. He says, “When I first came on TV, there were people who said to me, “Don’t come out of the closet because if this doesn’t work out, you won’t be able to play straight roles.
“Even recently people have told me that I need to stop playing so many gay roles. But I just think: I work! I’m busy!”
He adds, “I do a lot of gay roles because they’re awesome! And because they’re different. I think the concern is being typecast as gay. But being typecast as gay is as silly as being typecast as straight. The idea that there’s only one type of gay character is an antiquated idea.”
Indeed, Urie thinks playing gay has actually helped his career, saying, “If I didn’t play gay characters – if I wasn’t out of the closet – I would just not work as much. You wouldn’t know who I was.”
It looks like things are slightly coming full circle with Cars 3. In the first movie, young hotshot Lightning McQueen teamed up with an aging auto the world has given up on, Doc Hudson, to become a true champion (and a nicer car). Now it’s Lightning who’s getting older, with newer, more powerful cars lining up to race past him.
It’s only a couple of weeks until we get to see whether the idea of rebooted 90s TV hit Baywatch as a big screen comedy vehicle for Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson was a good idea or not. To help convince us it will be, a new Red Band trailer for the movie has arrived.
Synopsis: ‘A serial killer stalks the Limehouse streets of Victorian London in 1880, the terrified population of this squalid district of the East End believe that the “Golem”, a monster from Judaic mythology, is responsible. Inspector Kildare of Scotland Yard is handed the impossible task of solving these heinous crimes and his investigations lead him on a race across the capital from The Old Bailey, to Newgate Prison, to the music halls of London and the British Museum. His chief suspects are music hall superstar Dan Leno, political agitator Karl Marx, writer and philosopher George Gissing and journalist John Cree. Kildare believes that famed performer Little Lizzie Cree, who is almost certainly destined to hang for the poisoning of her husband, holds the key to the identity of the real Golem. Kildare must solve the case and in doing so, he believes he will save the life of Elizabeth Cree.
We’re hoping to bring you a review of Tomcat as soon as we can, but as the film opened in the UK today exclusively at the ICA in London, we thought it would be well worth posting the trailer. It’s certainly a challenging film that starts off sweet and very sexy (and pretty explicit), before heading in some unexpected and rather dark places.
Over the past couple of months there have been horrifying reports about what is going on in Chechnya, where a purge is happening of gay men, with suggestions of the first concentration camps in Europe since the Second World War, when gay men are imprisoned and tortured, apparently to get them to name other gay people. Most recently it’s been said at least 30 people have been killed, either by the authorities or by being outed to their families and the police suggesting the family ‘take care’ of it. This included reports over the weekend of a teenage boy being thrown from a ninth floor balcony by his uncle (who was following the wishes of other family members) after being outed to them by the authorities.
Will this be the female Hangover? It’s certainly got that vibe, with a group of friends having a raunchy, foul-mouthed night out ahead of a wedding. It’s also got a great cast, including Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, and Zoë Kravitz.
It’s nine years since Guillermo Del Toro and Ron Perlman last brought us a Hellboy movie, with The Golden Army. Since then they’ve both talked about the possibility of a third outing. While it always seemed like an outside bet, it was only a few months ago they Perlman seemed to extinguish all hope.
Synopsis: ‘THE FREEDOM TO MARRY traces the marriage equality movement’s historic progress through the four decades of work by Evan Wolfson, the architect of the movement (who is the founder and president of Freedom to Marry), and pioneering civil rights attorney Mary Bonauto, who argued many of the key cases, including the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
Moonlight hasn’t doesn’t winning awards yet, as last night at the MTV Movie Awards, it picked up Best Kiss for the smooch between Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome as the teenage versions of Chiron and Kevin. Of course the scene in question on the beach involved a bit more than just a kiss, but it was for the lip locking that they got their gong.
Returning to the world of Blade Runner makes for an interesting trailer challenge for the studio’s marketing department. For many the film is one of the true classic of sci-fi, with a unique style and a tone that’s far more contemplative than most. However, there are also a lot of people out there who’ve never seen it and have grown up on a diet of bloated sci-fi excess. So how do you appeal to bother crowds.
Next month Warner/DC will be hoping that they’ll be getting better reviews for Wonder Woman than they did for their last few films, and that critics and fanboys will finally be getting a bit more excited about their filmic universe. The latest trailer certainly make it look like it’ll be fun.