!!CAN GAY ACTORS PLAY IT STRAIGHT?!!

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Uploaded by on May 12, 2010

Joy Behar talks with a Newsweek writer about his remarks that gay actors rarely play straight roles convincingly.

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  • Just think about Neil Patrick Harrison. He's AWESOME.

    AND LEGENDARY ;)

  • What about Neil Patrick Harris.....

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  • I think people need to stop caring about what orientation can play what roles and just focus on how that actor him/herself is doing for that role...

    If you can play the role, it doesn't matter if you are gay or straight...you are a good actor! :D

  • Neil Patrick Harris and Jim Parsons

  • Kelsey Grammer is an avowed straight actor playing the straight role of Frasier Crane, yet I find him often unconvincing acting as a heterosexual, womanizing character in the series. According to Ramin Setoodeh's logic, I should then take this example and generalize that all straight actors can't play straight roles.

  • A straight man can fake a gay man's "lisp" and girlish mannerism, but a gay man cannot realistically fake the butchness of a manly man. Just look at all the straight-acting queens: does anyone take more than 3 seconds to tell that they are gay? Gays have feminine characteristics that they can't hide no matter how much they try. A gay guy with short hair, a leather jacket and a a motorcycle still looks gay, and a straight guy with long hair and a pink shirt still seems straight.

  • I think How I Met Your Mother is FUNNIER now that I know he's gay. Every time he says something really really REALLY hetero, I chuckle.

    But then when he looks longingly at Robin, I forget!~

  • Neil Patrick Harris, Zachary Quinto, Ian McKellen, Peter O'Toole...

  • ah! this video. i don't know why i watched it.. actually i do. i wanted to see how ramin defends himself. he's so awful. he's put his foot in his mouth and can't just stop. it's like dude. just stop. total douchebag.

  • @xadam2dudex just ignorant! nice.

  • his argument is just so weak its embarrasing

  • the author is gay himself...so he isn't being homophobic

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