When I started in the early 2000s, if you had said to another actor you were gay, it was implied or sometimes said explicitly that that was something you shouldn’t make a big thing about.
It was a disability, almost. There weren’t a vast number [of out actors], and nobody my age. But gay people of my generation came in at a strange time post-AIDS, which had a whole knock-on effect.
Yet it was one secret I didn’t need to keep. It doesn’t need to be anyone’s business, but being happy in oneself, not ashamed, is probably better.‘Passages’ is NC-17, ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ is R—are gay films being rated on a stricter scale?Don't forget to share:.