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Ewan McGregor defends playing gay fashion designer in Netflix&#;s &#;Halston&#;
Amid the ongoing debate in Hollywood over straight actors taking LGBTQ roles, Ewan McGregor has defended his casting as gay fashion architect Halston in an upcoming Netflix miniseries.
Produced by Ryan Murphy, Netflix&#;s Halston follows the internationally renowned fashion designer as he &#;skyrockets to fame&#; in the &#;70s &#;before his life starts to spin out of control,&#; per Netflix.
The series, which releases on May 14, will portray Roy “Halston” Frowick&#;s relationship with Victor Hugo, played by Gian Franco Rodriguez. It will also show the business decisions that led to Halston losing control of his fashion empire in the &#;80s. Halston died in from an AIDS-related illness.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, McGregor justified his casting, saying that the miniseries isn&#;t all about Halston&#;s sexuality.
He was reminded of a quote Pose star Billy Porter gave to the Hollywood Reporter in &#;If &#;flamboyantly&#; wasn&#;t in the description of the character, no one would see m
Should gay roles be portrayed only by gay actors? Or is all reasonable in Love and Hollywood? Considering Ewan McGregor’s casting as iconic (and gay) fashion designer, Halston &#; it’s safe to tell the Scottish actor prefers the latter.
McGregor was cast to play the American game-changing designer Halston in Ryan Murphy’s latest movie for Netflix. The Golden Globe winning actor&#;s portrayal of Roy Halston Frowick however has been met with criticism &#; yet another straight male thespian snagging a role of a gay man. But should critics have something negative to say about this choice of casting, considering a gay dude (Murphy) chose to cast McGregor in this role.
Billy Porter (the only openly gay black actor to win a prime hour Emmy for a advantage role) has said that he has been turned down for gay roles numerous times throughout his career while straight actors were able to publication those roles with ease (and be awarded for them). Porter referred to it as “tiresome” while appearing on The Hollywood Reporter’s Actor Roundtable.
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GREG IN HOLLYWOOD
By Greg Hernandez on Feb 16, pm | Comments (2) |
With his film I Adore You Phillip Morris finally coming out next month, Ewan McGregor is on the cover of Out Magazine and gives a really juicy interview about playing gay (opposite Jim Carrey) in this and other films.
Here are some excerpts:
Despite the truth that it stars perhaps the most bankable star in Hollywood &#; the worldwide gross of Carrey’s movies is more than $4 billion dollars &#; and, opposite him, its most talented, I Love You Phillip Morris, has languished undistributed domestically for more than a year, even after a formidable showing at its Sundance debut in “At Sundance everyone assumed it would be snapped up,” says McGregor, “but it wasn’t.” Perhaps one reason is that the main character is an unlovable (or uneasily loved) sociopathic scammer. But a more likely reason is that in cells, on bunks, on boats, before sunsets, after sunsets, on divans, over ottomans, without panning away or dissolving to white, the two men kiss, fondle, fuck, blow, suck, hold hands, gyrate, murmur, a
Ewan McGregor didn't mean to offend you. As the debonair actor sits down in Los Angeles to talk up his latest film "Beginners," he's genuinely upset if his last "gay" movie, "I Passion You Phillip Morris," was insultingly stereotypical to the queer kind.
"Yeah," he says, pondering with a curious puppy-dog look (similar to the one that his adorable pet terrier, Arthur, offers in "Beginners"), "that's disappointing. I never felt they were making cheap stabs. That was his life."
And when you say that with as much innocent charm as McGregor, his dreamy blue eyes leave you no choice but to let that one skid (the Scottish accent helps, too). The year-old's latest feature, the offbeat comedy-drama "Beginners" opening June 17 at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, is a sophisticated watch at gay life, as the film's father figure, Hal (Christopher Plummer), lives openly after almost a half-century in the closet. Now 75, and widowed after losing his wife, he's free as can be, and his son, Oliver (McGregor), has to make sense of it all – who's his dad now? Who was he then? And he only has s