Tuesday February 2, 2010

COLIN Firth says Hollywood actors “risk” their careers if they come out as gay.

The British actor — who stars as gay college professor George Falconer in upcoming movie A Single Man — said that there are still “invisible boundaries” that gay actors struggle to cross.

“There might be risks for a gay actor coming out,” he said.  “The politics of that are quite complex, it seems to me.

“If you’re known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that. If you’re a gay man and you want to play a straight role, you don’t get cast — and if a gay man wants to play a gay role now, you don’t get cast.

“I think it needs to be addressed and I feel complicit in the problem. I don’t mean to be. I think we should all be allowed to play whoever — but I think there are still some invisible boundaries which are still uncrossable.”

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