Living His Best Ken: Jimmy Featherstone Thinks ‘Barbie’s’ Boyfriend Should Be Gay
metroweekly.comBarbie movie for casting actor Ryan Gosling in the role and making the character heterosexual.Jimmy Featherstone, a 23-year-old mini-celebrity and tabloid fixation who was offered the chance to star in a proposed reality TV show, has become known for his addictions to cosmetic surgery and tanning, which he undertakes to look like the Mattel figurine, leading the media to dub him the “real-life Ken doll.”Featherstone believes that Barbie would be more “realistic” if the character played by Gosling was attracted to men, as Featherstone is in real life.“I do think Ken being gay would suit the character more.
I think gay men like to take pride in themselves,” Featherstone told the website JOE. “He’s a good-looking guy, and I think that’s what Ken is all about.
So I think that would be great.“If the character was gay, it shows people are equal, times have changed. At the end of the day, we are all human, and it doesn’t matter what you are.
With everything going on in the world, with gay rights and LGBT and all that, I think that would get a lot more interest in the movie as well – so why not?”Featherstone also believes that casting directors should have looked elsewhere for a Ken.“I think they could have chosen someone a bit better looking on the eyes.
