[…]Bryan Batt says "If you are openly gay, the masses can be asses and sometimes can't get past the fact that that's how someone lives their private life," said Batt, who has been with his partner, Tom Cianfichi, for 21 years. "Some actors have to make a choice. If they have the opportunity to become these huge megastars, making millions and millions of dollars and have to live a lie, that's a choice they have to make. Not that I would ever be a big star, but I just had to live my life the way I saw fit."
Easier said by a Broadway veteran than a big-screen leading man, he admits, but plenty of actors have talked about the choice between a big career and an honest personal life. Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland with convincing flamboyancy in 'Will & Grace' for nearly a decade, managed to skirt the issue of his sexuality until he was recently all but outed in a witch-hunty interview with the Advocate. Rupert Everett advised gay actors to stay in the closet.
"A gay man can only do drag," Everett told UK's Guardian, speaking with the trademark hyperbole he seems to believe. As for being an openly gay actor: "It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point."
Colin Firth, who received an Oscar nod for his role as a tragically closeted professor in last year's A Single Man, acknowledged his complicity in Hollywood's gay problem.
"If you're known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that," he said. "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."
Writer-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have come under some criticism for casting Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as the gay couple at the center of their upcoming romantic comedy, I Love You, Philip Morris.
"People have asked us, 'Why didn't you hire gay actors to play these roles?'" Requa told the Independent. "Well, there are no gay actors in Hollywood! None of them are out of the closet."
One exception, if only in the television world, is Neil Patrick Harris, who balances his love of musical theater with playing a serial womanizer on 'How I Met Your Mother.'
"God love Neil Patrick Harris, how great is that," Batt said. "People grew up with him, they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be."
Batt, currently on hiatus from 'Mad Men' because of his character's sexual orientation and not his own, is spending more time at home in New Orleans with Cianfichi at their home design store, Hazelnut, and promoting his book about his "wonderful Steel Magnolia, Auntie Mame, Southern belle of a mom," out in May.
Rumors that Batt and Cianfichi planned to marry in Vermont surfaced on gossip sites late last year, but Batt said they were news to him. […]
Katy Hall (huffingtonpost.com, 16/3/2010)
Easier said by a Broadway veteran than a big-screen leading man, he admits, but plenty of actors have talked about the choice between a big career and an honest personal life. Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland with convincing flamboyancy in 'Will & Grace' for nearly a decade, managed to skirt the issue of his sexuality until he was recently all but outed in a witch-hunty interview with the Advocate. Rupert Everett advised gay actors to stay in the closet.
"A gay man can only do drag," Everett told UK's Guardian, speaking with the trademark hyperbole he seems to believe. As for being an openly gay actor: "It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point."
Colin Firth, who received an Oscar nod for his role as a tragically closeted professor in last year's A Single Man, acknowledged his complicity in Hollywood's gay problem.
"If you're known as a straight guy, playing a gay role, you get rewarded for that," he said. "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."
Writer-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have come under some criticism for casting Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as the gay couple at the center of their upcoming romantic comedy, I Love You, Philip Morris.
"People have asked us, 'Why didn't you hire gay actors to play these roles?'" Requa told the Independent. "Well, there are no gay actors in Hollywood! None of them are out of the closet."
One exception, if only in the television world, is Neil Patrick Harris, who balances his love of musical theater with playing a serial womanizer on 'How I Met Your Mother.'
"God love Neil Patrick Harris, how great is that," Batt said. "People grew up with him, they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be."
Batt, currently on hiatus from 'Mad Men' because of his character's sexual orientation and not his own, is spending more time at home in New Orleans with Cianfichi at their home design store, Hazelnut, and promoting his book about his "wonderful Steel Magnolia, Auntie Mame, Southern belle of a mom," out in May.
Rumors that Batt and Cianfichi planned to marry in Vermont surfaced on gossip sites late last year, but Batt said they were news to him. […]
Katy Hall (huffingtonpost.com, 16/3/2010)
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